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Gloria Kamnsky -- RIP

GLORIA KAMINSKY 1931-2014.

Gloria Alicia Kaminsky, our beloved mother, wife, grandmother and Nana, passed away Nov. 29, 2014, in Henderson. Nevada. Gloria was born Jan. 19, 1931, in Guayama, Puerto Rico, to Felicita and Jose Torres. Gloria, along with her beloved husband, Marvin, moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2001.

Gloria managed the Salvation Army stores in Los Angeles for over 10 years, breaking all records for the highest monthly sales revenue not met by others to this day.

She was a loving mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, and her legacy will live on with us. She was glamorous, she was incredibly young-looking despite her age, and she had an impeccable style with everything. Gloria is survived by her two daughters, Jo Ann Judge and Wanda Kaminsky; loving Nana to grandchildren, Tiffany J. Judge and Timothy J. Judge; sisters; brothers; nieces; and cousins from Puerto Rico, New York and Florida.

Celebration of life viewing will be 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at Palm Mortuary, 7600 S. Eastern Ave. (at Sunset), Las Vegas, NV 89123. 702-464-8500.



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7/13/2007
A Reunion Review by Dr. Micheline Federman
Hello Friends! It’s been just about a month since our Reunion and I still can’t stop thinking and talking about it! It was wonderful to see and be hugged by so many. We may have somewh . . .  Continued

6/7/2007
Ed Strum Visits Jeff
Ed Strum is a member of the Class of '40.He wanted to make a return visit to Jeff with our Class of '55 in 2005. He paid the fee, his name badge was mailed to him but circumstances at the . . .  Continued

5/13/2007
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Tibbi Duboys


Our lives, lived in pastels, I think, doesn't prepare me for a 50th reunion. This is the first I've heard of, and I look forward to seeing all, after so many years. I have seen Bernice (Greenfield, Goodman) Hamel and Rosalyn Eig, and have corresponded with some other classmates.

I continue to live in New York, and while I hear we seniors are supposed to begin "taking it easy" I'm busier than ever.
Am still teaching at Brooklyn College, and am completing a book about Holocaust education, and have two more planned.

The daughter of a factory worker, I've always been interested in unions, and chair the faculty union at Brooklyn (The Professional Staff Congress).

I had the misfortune to lose my beloved daughter Alexandra, and I continue to work with bereaved parents in the Manhattan Chapter of The Compassionate Friends.

Am very close with Ariana, my older daughter. She and her family live in NYC, and I'm delighted to see my grandkids very often. Needless to say, like all of our grandchildren, they are brilliant, beautiful prodigies of the first order.

A little over two years ago, I was reconnected with Gil Klajman, our classmate. We're currently working on a book that is a translation of the papers of C. Wright Mills into French. We're associates of one of the Social Science labs at the Sorbonne, and look forward to continuing our relationship, as well as our research in Europe.


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 Death  Eileen Gaffin Barkai passed away in January of 202
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 Other  Brian Lazarus (Jeff 57 ) died in August 2001.
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 5/29/2007

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