Obituaries

Myrna (Wood) Gitberg, of Hudson Lane, Windsor, wife of Wallace Gitberg, died Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Born in Springfield, MA, she was the daughter of the late Sadie (Finerman) and Max Wood and step-daughter of Anne Wood. A graduate of Classical High School in Springfield, she was the office manager of Hartford Wire Works for 35 years. She was a...

Edith Stein Frosh, 102, of Bloomfield, died peacefully Monday, October 23, 2006, at the Hebrew Home & Hospital in West Hartford. She was born in Vienna, Austria , the daughter of Pinchas and Anna Stein, and married Emil Frosh in 1929. Her lifetime spanned a period of momentous social, political, economic and technological events in world history, and she was...

Alvin L. Berman, 87, died on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at the Charwell House in Norwood, MA, where he had lived for the past 1-1/2 years. Born on September 15, 1920 in Hartford, CT, Al enlisted in the Army at the age of 19. He served during World War II as an Air Mechanic with the 23rd Bomb Squadron and...

Evelyn Marie Cohen was born to Joseph Emanuel and Ruth (Liebel) Emanuel on June 21, 1952. The family moved from Brighton, England in the 1960s and settled in White Plains, New York. She obtained her Associates Degree in Theater from Dean Junior College. She was swept off her feet by a stocky crooner from Spring Valley, Gary Michael Cohen. They...

Florence Goldstein Fuchs of Simsbury Road, West Hartford, died Thursday August 31 at the Hebrew Home and Hospital after a short illness. Florence was born May 15, 1918, in the Bronx, New York, the third of four children of Sadie and Benjamin Goldstein. She graduated from Walton High School as a member of the ARISTA honor society. She was the...

GORDON, Michael Allen Gordon, 62, of Newington, CT died Wednesday, September 14, 2005. Born in Worcester, MA, he was the son of Mary H. Levine of Worcester, MA and the late Jacob H. Gordon. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. Michael was associated with Budget Printers in West Hartford, CT. Besides his mother he leaves three sons, Jay H. Gordon...

Fred H. Greenwood, 78, of Kirkwood Road, West Hartford died Monday, October 31, 2005 at Hartford Hospital. Born May 14, 1927 in Vienna, Austria, he was the son of the late Walter and Illona Greenwood. He was on the Kindertransport in December 1938, eventually settling with his family in New York. He was a US Army Veteran. He received his...

Albert E. Dobrutsky, 82, of Lake Worth, FL, died peacefully on Saturday (July 14, 2012) surrounded by his loving family. Born in Hartford, he was the son of the late Jennie and Sam Dobrutsky. Al and his beloved wife and soul mate, Elaine raised their family in Windsor, CT before eventually retiring to Florida. Besides his wife, he leaves his...

Leon G. Elston, 91, of West Hartford, passed away Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at Hebrew Health Care, West Hartford. Born in New York City on December 5, 1919, he was the son of the late Joseph and Lena (Lukofsky) Epstein. Mr. Elston graduated from New Utrecht High School, and from CCNY School of Business Administration with a Bachelor’s Degree in...

Stanley W. Edelstein, M.D., 82, of West Hartford, CT, died March 12 at St. Francis Hospital, after a short illness. Born in Philadelphia, PA, he graduated from Temple University and Hahneman Medical College. He served as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and went on to practice obstetrics and gynecology for nearly 50 years in the Greater Hartford...

Lois Mintz Fleischmann, of Glastonbury, daughter of the late Samuel and Anna Mintz of Colchester, beloved wife of Joseph Fleischmann, passed away on June 9, 2010 after a courageous battle with life, and learning how to turn lemons into lemonade. Lois grew up in Colchester, graduating from the local schools and attending the University of Bridgeport where she graduated from...

GINSBURG, Lillian Ginsburg, of West Hartford passed away on Friday, May 15, 2009. Born on June 2, 1920 in Hartford, she was the beloved daughter of the late Samuel and Dora (Sosensky) Ginsburg. She was pre-deceased by her brother, Jacob Jessie’ Ginsberg, and by her sister, Rosetta Freeman (Martin). She is survived by her beloved sister and brother-in-law, Pearl and...

Albert (Al) Abend (77) died peacefully at home in the West End of Hartford on May 12th. The oldest of 4, he was born in Brooklyn NY to Edward and Doris Abend, and moved to the West End with his wife Mollie in 1982. A loyal and generous friend, he shared stories of growing up, attending Emerson College in Boston,...

Florence Norwitz Abel, 92 years of age, passed away on Monday, November 2, 2009, at the Hebrew Home & Hospital. Florence was the daughter of the late Rubin and Rose Norwitz. She was predeceased by her husband Charles, son Gerald Abel, son-in-law Ronald Miller, brother Dr. Sidney Norwitz, sisters Rhoda Fagin and Sydelle Schwartz Black. Florence was a loving and...

Pauline M. Abrahamson, 79, of West Hartford, died peacefully on Sunday (August 28, 2011) at the Hebrew Home and Hospital. She was a long time resident of New Britain where she taught in the public schools before becoming an associate professor at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). She received her undergraduate and master’s degrees at CCSU and her sixth year...

AARONSON, Betty (Brody) Aaronson, 85, of West Hartford, formerly of Wethersfield, died Saturday, October 11, 2008. She was the widow of Isadore Aaronson. Born in Hartford, she was the daughter of the late Hyman and Ida (Levine) Brody. She was a former member of Temple Beth Torah of Wethersfield. She leaves a son, Norman Aaronson and his wife Carol of...

William P. Abrahams, 100, of Boynton Beach, FL, formerly of Waterbury, CT, died Sunday, August 17, 2008. Born in Johnstown, PA, he was the son of the late Joseph L. and Laura (Friedberger) Abrahams. He owned the former Williams Electronics and Lafayette Radio, both in Waterbury, before he retired. He was active in the Democratic Town Committee in Waterbury and...

Dr. Samuel I. Kaplan, ?Kappy?, 98, of West Hartford died Sunday, November 4, 2007 at John Dempsey Hospital, Farmington. He was the son of the late Hyman and Sarah Kaplan and the beloved husband of the late Thelma (Rakusin) Kaplan. A graduate of Hartford High School, he attended the University of Pittsburgh Dental School where he met his beloved wife,...

Phyllis (Blumenthal) Abrahms, 91, of Bloomfield, formerly of West Hartford and Beach Park Point, Clinton, Connecticut, died Friday August 5, 2011 at Hartford Hospital. She was the widow of John B. Abrahms, her cherished husband of 59 years, and the daughter of the late Max and Anna Blumenthal of Hartford. She was also predeceased by her beloved son Dr. Eliot...

Arthur B. Abraham, died on Wednesday (August 1, 2012) in his home in Glastonbury. Mr. Abraham was 87 years old. He was a sales executive, retired from Konica Business Solutions in 1993. He was an active community volunteer for SCORE, where he developed a small business program to help prisoners reentering the community. Mr. Abraham is survived by his wife...