Obituaries

Herman Dvorin, 94, of Avon died Friday, July 25, 2008 at Hartford Hospital. Born in Bangor, ME, he was the son of the late Oscar and Martha (Strier) Dvorin. He graduated in 1936 from Bates College in ME. Herman served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1950 he founded Corbin Motor Sales...

FEIVELSON, Jerome ?Jerry? D. Feivelson, 67 years of age, of Bristol, died Friday, January 23, 2009 at Bristol Hospital. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he was the son of Gladys (Blumenstein) Feivelson of Boca Raton, FL and the late Philip Feivelson. He was employed as a school bus driver with Dattco, and was a senior member of the Temple Sinai Softball...

Dr. Irving W. Eichenbaum of New Britain, and recently of Dover, NH, died peacefully at Langdon Place, in Dover , on Monday, July 21, 2008, after a long period of declining health. Dr. Eichenbaum was born in New York City and moved with his family to New Haven. He was awarded his DDS degree from the University of Maryland Dental...

CAHN, Herbert Cahn, 72, of Avon, formerly of West Hartford, died Saturday, April 1, 2006. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, he was the son of the late Alexander and Erna Cahn. He was a nuclear physicist with Combustion Engineering for over 30 years. He was a member of Beth El Temple of West Hartford. He leaves a son, Jeffrey P. Cahn...

Attorney A. Arthur Giddon of Bloomfield and West Hartford, age 101 ½, died peacefully on November 24, 2010. As a boy, he was the bat boy for the Boston Braves but on April 25, 2009, for his 100th birthday celebration, he was invited by the Red Sox, his beloved team, to be their honorary bat boy, “Big Pappy 100”. The...

Ronald Byron, 67, of West Hartford, passed away April 13, 2015. To honor his final wishes, there will be no Funeral Service or Shiva. A lifelong resident of Connecticut, Ron graduated Conard High School in 1965; graduated Univ of Hartford with a BA in Psychology in 1970, and Masters of Education in 1973. Ron had many accomplishments - a lot...

Rose (Freedman) Cohen, widow of the late Lewis I. Cohen, died peacefully in her sleep at home at Chatfield Senior Living apartments in West Hartford on Thursday. She was 101 years old. Born to Isaac and Fanny (Saunders) Freedman in Hartford in 1911, Rose grew up in Torrington. After graduating from Torrington High School in 1928 she moved to Hartford...

J. Kim Buland, 88, of West Hartford, passed away peacefully in his sleep Monday, November 17, 2008. He was the beloved husband of Roberta (Friend) Buland for 42 years. Born in Germany, he was the son of the late Morris and Adele Bulwachter. They emigrated to the United States in 1939 and settled in New York City. He was a...

Dorothy Gitlavitz of Hamden, 98 years of age, formerly of New Britain, died peacefully Sunday, July 20, 2014. Dorothy was a teacher and a guidance counselor in the New Britain Public School System until her retirement. She leaves her niece, Susan Epstein and her husband Richard Shapiro of Hamden; her nephew Mark Epstein of Gulfport, FL; her nephew Charles Rogol...

OBITUARY: Rebecca (Roznar) Cohen, 85, of Crestview Circle, West Hartford, wife of Benjamin Cohen, died Monday, January 8, 2007. Born in Hartford, she was the daughter of the late Jacob and Tillie (Liebowitz) Roznar. She was a member of the United Synagogues of Greater Hartford and a member of its board, as well as a volunteer for the American Cancer...

On Thursday May 5, 2005, Dr. Mark Stephen Brown, of 309 Fern Street, West Hartford, died unexpectedly. He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on December 28, 1945. Mark was the beloved son of the late Benjamin and Pearl Brown. He was the devoted husband and soul-mate to his wife of 36 years, Judy Brown and the adored, selfless father to...

Gertrude (Labell) Greenspon, 92, of Simsbury Road, West Hartford, widow of Joseph M. Greenspon, died Tuesday, September 12, 2006. Born in Hartford, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Rebecca (Pelzel) Labell. She was a member of Hadassah. She leaves a nephew Joseph Labell of Scarsdale,, NY; a niece Martha Labell of Boston, MA, and a sister-in-law Phyllis...

Marcia (Trachtenroth) Gothold, of Miamis Road, West Hartford, widow of J. Richard Gothold, died Friday, November 30, 2007. Born in New Britain, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Jennie (Goldberg) Trachtenroth. She was a member of the Emanuel Synagogue, West Hartford, and past member of Beth Hillel Synagogue, Bloomfield. She was a graduate of Weaver High School,...

Emma Perlstein Cohen died Thursday (April 28, 2005) at age 100. The widow of Dr. Morris N. Cohen, with whom she eloped in 1927, she was the oldest child of Hillel and Libbe (Sherry) Perlstein, and was predeceased by her brothers Abraham and Elliot Perlstein and her sister Shirley Brown. Love of and for family formed the core of her...

George Blumenfeld,, 94, of New Britain, husband of the late Jane (Sheinman) Blumenfeld, died Tuesday, May 24, 2005. Born in Poland, he was the son of the late Sam and Anna Oliner) Blumenfeld. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. A US Army Veteran of World War II, he was a member of the Jewish War Veterans. He...

Geraldine (Croog) Geyer, 89, of West Hartford, formerly of Newington, died Monday, May 7, 2012. She was the widow of both Murray Kramer and Milton Geyer. Born in New Haven, she was the daughter of the late Harry I. and Rose Croog. Geraldine often spoke of her work as a secretary at the Culinary Institute of America. She cherished time...

Beatrice L. Gottlieb, 90, of Glastonbury, formerly of Philadelphia, PA, widow of Samuel M. Gottlieb, died Monday, (June 28, 2005) in Hartford Hospital. Born in Camden, NJ, she was the daughter of the late Samuel and Fannie (Goldstein) Cohen. She received her Masters Degree from Temple University and was a librarian for the City of Philadelphia before she retired. She...

Larry B. Dorfman, 54, of Rocky Hill, died Saturday, (December 17, 2005) with family and friends by his side. Larry attended Hartford Public Schools and graduated from UCONN in 1973. He was a court stenographer for Sanders, Gale and Russell in New Haven. Predeceased by his father, Morris, Larry leaves his wife Vivian (Fernandez) of Rocky Hill, his mother Ceil...

Ida Eleanor (Sandler) Brody was born on June 9, 1908 in Brooklyn, NY. She moved to Hartford as a child and graduated from Hartford Public High School. For the last dozen years she was a resident of McLeans in Simsbury where she died. She was well as recently as Mother’s Day and on her 97th birthday. Mrs. Brody devoted her...

ETTINGER, James Emanuel Ettinger, 86 years of age, of West Hartford died Thursday, May 21, 2009 at St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center. He was the husband of the late Mollie (Kupersmith) Ettinger. Born in Wilkensburg, PA, he was the son of the late Leo and Clara (Freydberg) Ettinger. He was a US Marine Corps veteran of World War II...