Obituaries

Virginia Beach —Irene Helen Stein Levin died Thursday, October 29, 2015 at the age of 89. She was...

Virginia Beach —Carl Janow passed away on Monday, October 26, 2015, at his residence. He was born...

Norfolk —Tavia F. Gordon of Norfolk, Va. died at age 86 on Friday, October 30, 2015. He was born...

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Rabbi Jacob Pressman, a religious, community and civil rights leader, died in...

Virginia Beach —Nancy Yagoda Weill passed away on Friday, October 2, 2015 at the age of 75. Nancy...

VIRGINIA BEACH—After a valiant fight with aging, Lou Stadlin passed from natural causes on Friday,...

Watkinsville , Ga.—Eli Rafal, 91, of Watkinsville, died Wednesday, September 30, 2015. Born in...

Thousand Oaks, Calif.—Rubie Puritz, 82, passed away peacefully on October 5, 2015 in Thousand...

Norfolk —Abraham Mandel, 96, passed away on Oct. 3, 2015. He was the son of the late Rae and...

Jackie Collins, whose steamy novels sold more than 500 million copies, has died following a...

(JTA)—On Aug. 30, at age 82, noted neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks succumbed to a cancer...

Chesapeake — Eugena “Jean” Pearl, 73, passed away on September 21, 2015. She was the loving wife...

Daleville, Va.—Mary Elizabeth Stone (Betsey) Mattox, of Glade Hill and more recently of The Glebe,...

Virginia Beach —Chick Kaufman passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, September 10, 2015....

South Orange , N.J.—Dorna Lee Isaacs of South Orange, N.J. died on September 13, 2015. Born in New...

Norfolk — Harvey Lewis Horne, 45, died Monday, September 21, 2015. Harvey was born in Norfolk to...

Virginia Beach -HAMPTON—Dr. L. Myron Diamondstein, 83, passed away on Thursday, September 17,...

The parents of slain Jewish journalist Steven Sotloff said they had held out hope for his survival...

Marvin Mandel, the only Jewish governor of Maryland, died at 95. Mandel, a Democrat who led the...

Norfolk —Isidore Simonoff, 98, died Monday, August 24, 2015, at Beth Sholom Home of Eastern...