Obituaries

Helen Marie Soloway, 94, died June 26, 2015 in Phoenix. Mrs. Soloway was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She worked as an executive secretary for the United States Naval Department for 24 years. In 1963, while visiting her brother, Ben, and his family in Tucson, she met her future husband,… Read more »

Irene M. Sarver, a longtime Jewish community and civic leader, died July 6, 2015. She was 95. Mrs. Sarver served on the boards and was a member of countless organizations, including Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Hadassah, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona,… Read more »

Barry S. Hirsch, 73, died June 15, 2015. Mr. Hirsch was born in Cleveland. His family moved to Tucson in 1948. A graduate of Tucson High School, he received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Education from the University of Arizona. Mr. Hirsh served in the Peace Corps… Read more »

Lillian Fisher, 93, died June 7, 2015. She served as a Pima County Superior Court Judge for 16 years. She helped found the Arizona Women Lawyers Association and was a founding member of the National Association of Women Judges. She also helped establish many Tucson organizations, including the Tucson… Read more »

Raymond Karl Lederman, D.O., a doctor, psychiatrist and passionate advocate for child and adolescent mental health, died June 15, 2015 after what his family describes as “a long journey” with cancer. He was 65. Born in Detroit, he graduated from the University of Michigan, then attended medical school at… Read more »

Ruth J. Weinstein, 87, died May 29, 2015. Born in Newark, N.J., Mrs. Weinstein lived in New Jersey until 1977 when she and her husband moved to Tucson. She was a congregant of Temple Emanu-El for 38 years and volunteered on many committees and assisted in the office until… Read more »

NEW YORK (JTA) — Rochelle Shoretz was fond of saying, “There are no problems, only solutions.” Her approach to life was not to dwell on bad news, but to channel the energy that friends described as boundless into somehow making things better. It’s what drove her to establish the… Read more »

Marilyn Agron, 78, died May 15, 2015. Born in Chicago, Mrs. Agron moved to Tucson in 1957. She was a lifetime member of Hadassah. Mrs. Agron was preceded in death by her two sisters, Shirley and Florence. Survivors include her husband of 57 years, Austin Agron; children, Elise (Pat)… Read more »

Sylvia Ulan, 77, died May 14, 2015. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Mrs. Ulan was raised in Albany, N.Y. She graduated from Oneonta Teachers College and taught elementary school in the Albany school system for several years. She moved to Tucson to teach and attended the University of Arizona… Read more »

Rose Bike, 87, died May 8, 2015. Born in Chicago, Mrs. Bike graduated from Tully High School and worked in the family’s bakery and lingerie shop. She was accepted at Northwestern University, but instead began working at the telephone company as an operator, eventually becoming a supervisor and trainer… Read more »

Marjorie Emerson Paulson, 90, died May 4, 2015. Born in St. Louis, Mrs. Paulson lived most of her life in Phoenix. Mrs. Paulson was preceded in death by her first husband, Elliot. Survivors include her husband Norm Paulson and his extended family; children, Jim Emerson of Albuquerque, N.M., Gary… Read more »

Joan Lipsey, 84, died March 16, 2015. Mrs. Lipsey graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and continued her education in advanced dance in Chicago and New York City. She also trained as a lab technician. She had three dance studios in Iowa. She also taught… Read more »

Naomi Ozeri, 86, died May 1, 2015. Born in Brandenburg, Germany, Mrs. Ozeri immigrated to Israel with her family at the age of 8, on the eve of the Holocaust. She earned a degree in public nursing from Bikur Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem in 1947. She and her then-fiancé,… Read more »

Bertha Kaplan Segal, 89, died April 11, 2015. Born to Russian immigrant parents in Gouverneur, N.Y., Mrs. Segal was a language and speech pathologist for the Canton Public Schools and Skaneateles Public Schools in New York. Upon her retirement, Mrs. Segal and her late husband, Abner Segal, moved to… Read more »

Close to 700 people poured into the Tucson Jewish Community Center on April 22 to take part in a memorial service for 18-year-old Kelsey Taylor Luria, who died April 18, 2015 after battling acute myeloid leukemia for almost six months. Rabbi Stephanie Aaron, who spoke at the memorial, said… Read more »

Linda Roy, an educator at Congregation Anshei Israel for 30 years, died April 15, 2015 at age 66. Ms. Roy, a native of Southern California, came to Tucson in the early 1980s from San Bernardino, Calif. It was in Tucson that she “explored her Jewish heritage through her deep… Read more »

Elaine Lois Rapoport, 82, died April 23, 2015. Mrs. Rapoport attended Syracuse University and Washington University in St. Louis, majoring in speech and drama. Throughout high school and college, she sang with orchestras and was cast in many different lead roles as a singer and actress. Mrs. Rapoport was… Read more »

Harriet Shirley Robbins, 84, died April 20, 2015. Mrs. Robbins was preceded in death by her husband of 43 years, Harold. Survivors include her children, Jeffery (Becky) Robbins, Randy (Richard) Druitt, Dean Robbins, Eric (Kimberly) Robbins, and Matthew (Sylvia) Robbins; sister, Jean Weisman; and 12 grandchildren. Graveside services were… Read more »

Itzak Zvi Zamir, 92, died April 9, 2015. Born in Tel Aviv, Mr. Zamir spent many years in Cleveland. He graduated from Wayne State University and was a retired biomedical engineer. He earned advanced degrees from the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, where he specialized in musical instruments of… Read more »

Jack Greenman, 96, died April 15, 2015 in Boynton Beach, Fla. Born and raised in New York City, Mr. Greenman attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania before serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he worked in the garment industry in… Read more »