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Chanukah Gift Drive launch

Chanukah Gift Drive launch

Begins Friday, October 31  Jewish Family Service is launching its annual Chanukah Gift Drive to support families in need this holiday season.  Beginning October 31, JFS will begin accepting donations of gifts and monetary contributions. The deadline is...

Birdie Glanzer Brundage

BOCA RATON, FLORIDA - Birdie Glanzer Brundage, 95, beloved mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, passed away on September 3, 2025.  Born March 28, 1930, in New York City to Dr. Joseph and Helen Weiser Glanzer, she graduated from the Birch Wathen School and...

Larry W. Dobrinsky

NORFOLK - It is with a heavy heart we announce the passing of Larry Wallis Dobrinsky, who passed away on September 7, 2025, at the age of 85.  Larry was a native of Norfolk, where he graduated from Maury High School. He lived in Norfolk most of his life and only...

Brian Jay Wishneff

ROANOKE - Brian Jay Wishneff was born on October 16, 1952, and passed away on May 24, 2025, surrounded by loved ones. He was the son of the late Alvin Wishneff and Ruth Victor Wishneff. Brian grew up with his parents, three sisters, and one brother in Norfolk. He...

Dr. Leonard I. Ruchelman

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Dr. Leonard I. Ruchelman passed away peacefully on April 27, 2025, at the age of 91 in his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was born on June 28, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York to Jacob and Sarah Ruchelman. Leonard is survived by his wife Diana...

Mary Duty

WHITE HOUSE, TENNESSEE - Mary Jane Duty, with eyes of blue, passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 4, after a long, hard battle with cancer. She was surrounded by loved ones, where she spent her final days in the home of her youngest daughter in Tennessee.  She...

Norma Janet Flax

NORFOLK - Norma Janet Flax, born in New York, New York, passed away on May 22 at the age of 95.  Norma was predeceased by her parents, Esther Sherris Ginsburg and Hyman Ginsburg, and her daughter, Patricia Flax-Jankosky. She is survived by her husband, Jack Flax,...

Diane B. Hoffman

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - Diane Berman Hoffman passed away on May 18. Diane was born on July 31, 1927 in West Hartford, Conn. to the late Aaron Berman and Gertrude Wigransky Berman. She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 59 years, Herbert Sidney Hoffman,...

Dr. Sidney B. Sward

VIRGINIA BEACH - Dr. Sidney B. Sward, 88, died peacefully in his sleep on March 18.  He was kind and generous and a loving husband and father who put the needs of others above his own.  A talented musician and PhD’d athlete, he taught at NSU for 32 years. He...

Arlene Elsa Losick

VIRGINIA BEACH - Arlene Elsa Losick, 81 passed away unexpectedly on May 17. She was born to Dorothy and Sidney Chernick in Kerhonkson, N.Y. on May 19, 1942.  Arlene was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Mel. Left to cherish her memory are her son Heath...

Shelby Tudor 

Rockville, Maryland – Shelby Tudor 50, passed away on May 15, 2024 in Rockville, Maryland.  Shelby recently had a hip replacement because of years of chronic pain and unfortunately, a complication took her from us.  She was married for over 24 wonderful and...

Marilyn Barbara Werner

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. –Marilyn Barbara Werner, 94, died on May 26 at the AHAVA Memory Care Facility in Pittsburgh, Pa. The cause of death was Alzheimer’s disease. Known to most as Barbsie, she was born in Hartford, Conn., to Edward and Vivian Goldman. She attended...