Washington, DC—On Friday, April 22, 2022, Barbara Horstein Levinson Breit, age 91, of Silver Spring, Md., formerly of Portsmouth, Va., passed peacefully surrounded by her family.
Barbara, a lifetime member of Gomley Chesed Synagogue, spent most of her life in Portsmouth, moving in her later years to be closer to her family in Maryland.
Preceded in death by her husband, Morton Levinson, and their daughter, Merle, and her second husband, Harvey Breit, she leaves to cherish her memory, her children, Leon (Beverly) Levinson, Carol Levinson, Roslyn (Robert) Black, her grandchildren, Sara (Craig) Eidelman, Andi (Jason) Kristall, Jamie (Jared) Maier, Stacey (Andrew) Watson, Mitchell (Diana) Black, and her most beloved great-grandchildren, Tanner, Jenna, Ross, Reese, Frankie, Levi, Jack, Sophie, Abigail, Eliana and Logan. Her family was her greatest legacy.
Graveside funeral services were held at Gomley Chesed Cemetery in Portsmouth. Memorial contributions may be made to the Bender JCC of Greater Washington Inclusion Camp, www.benderjccgw.org or to Main Street Connect, www.mainstreetconnect.org. May her memory be for a blessing. Arrangements entrusted to Torchinsky Hebrew Funeral Home, Washington, DC.