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Mrs. Lorraine m. Marcus Ben.on E. Freedman S ara Evans, prominent leader in Durham, dies at 80
Mrs. Lorraine Mantler Marcus,
67, of Atlanta died Monday, March
24. The funeral was held Wednes
day, March 26 at Sandy Springs
Chapel with Rabbi Harvey H. Win-
okur officiating. Interment was at
Arlington Memorial Park.
Survivors include a daughter,
Patricia Beth Marcus of Atlanta;
two sons, Russell Jeffrey Marcus
of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and
Donald Joel Marcus of Raleigh,
N.C.; a sister, Ellen Miller of San
Diego; a brother, Marshall J.
Mantler of Atlanta; and four
granddaughters.
Contributions can be sent to the
Cancer Research Institute, 133 E.
SSth Street, New York, N Y.
Mrs. Lillian Bernstein
Mrs. Lillian Bernstein, 82, of
Brooklyn, N.Y. died Tuesday,
March 18.
The funeral was held Thursday,
March 20, at Parkside Memorial
Chapel in Brooklyn, with inter
ment in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
She was a life member of Deb
orah Hospital Auxiliary.
She was the widow of Matthew
Bernstein. Survivors include a son,
Marvin Bernstein of Atlanta; sis
ters, Jessica Winter of New York
City, and Sarah Sklover of Silver
Spring, Md.; and grandcnildren,
David and Susan Bernstein of At
lanta.
Continued from page 1.
ing Jewish activists wrote con
gressmen to support the proposal.
In another sign of support for
the president, Israeli President
Shimon Peres defended the U.S.
rejoinder to Libyans f ■c.ig on
American aircraft while much of
the Arab world denounced the
U.S. air strikes against Libya as
provocative and armed aggression.
In a statement to news media in
Jerusalem, Peres said, “The United
States has a right, like any other
country, to defend freedom of the
seas.”
Meanwhile Israeli Radio re
ported that U.S. and Israeli delega
tions had discussed plans to stock
pile S66 million in U.S. military
equipment in Israel for possible
use in a regional crisis. The U.S.
Embassy in Tel Aviv said the dis
cussion was a regularly scheduled
meeting of the joint military, polit
ical group formed in 1983. The
group had last met in October. It
has been formed to cooperate on
strategy, medical contingency and
pre-positioning of weapons.
I he sources confirmed that
I homas Dine, AlPAC’s executive
director, had informed Secretary
°f State George Shult/ March 20
that while AIPAC continued to
oppose the Saudi sale it would not
utount a major campaign against
1 He noted that the $354 million
'.‘instituted onlv eight percent ol
the original package ot $4.5 bil-
h°n. ! hat package included air
craft and tanks. A scaledown in
Benton E. Ereedman, 47, of At
lanta died Sunday, March 23.
Graveside service was held
Tuesday, March 25, at Bonaven-
ture Cemetery in Savannah.
A native of Savannah, he gradu
ated from Benedictine and attend
ed the University of Georgia. He
w as a member of The Temple, 210
Associates, and the Southeast
Shoe Travelers’ Association.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Pat Morse Freedman; daughters,
l isa Leigh Freedman and Andy
Denise Freedman, both ot Atlan
ta; son, Andrew Morse Freedman
of Atlanta; parents, Dr. and Mrs.
Louis M. Freedman of Jackson
ville, Fla.; and brothers. Dr. Mur
ray A. Freedman of Augusta and
Dr. Donald S. Freedman of Jack
sonville.
Mrs. Judith Kirschner
Mrs. Sidney (Judith) Kirschner,
48, of Atlanta died Wednesday,
March 26.
Graveside service was to be held
at 1 1 a.m. Friday, March 28, at
Crest Lawn Memorial Park with
Rabbi Alvin Sugarman officiating.
Mrs. Kirschner was co-president
of The Temple Sisterhood.
Survivors include her husband,
Sidney Kirschner; two daughters,
Lori and Lisa Kirschner; son,
Ronald Kirschner, all of Atlanta;
and brother, J. Bert Fishman of
Los Angeles.
face of congressional opposition
limited the sale to a billion dollars
with inclusion of enhancements of
F-15 war planes that the U.S. had
previously sold the Saudis. 1 his
was again reduced to missiles only.
Delivery of the missiles will not
begin until 1989 and will be com
pleted in 1991. The administration
contends that the Saudis need the
weapons to offset a threat from
Iran.
Meanwhile leaders in Congress
against the missile sale have indi
cated they would continue to fight
it because of America’s interests.
They have emphasized that the
Saudis should not be rewarded
when they have not lived up to
pledges to advance to peace moves
with Israel at the time the AWACs
sale was debated in 1981. Sen.
Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) and Rep.
Mel Levine (D-Calif.) have indi
cated majorities in House and
Senate oppose the sale. C ranston
noted, however, that he was not
sure of a two-thirds majority
needed to overturn the sale.
Mrs. Sara Nachamson Evans,
80, long-time civic and lay reli
gious leader in Durham, N.C., died
Sunday, March 23. Funeral ser
vices were held Monday, March 24
at Beth-El Synagogue in Durham.
Mrs. Evans, the wife of former
Mayor Emanuel J. “Mutt" Evans,
served as “first lady” of Durham
from 1950 to 1962. She was, in her
own right, a prominent local, re
gional and national leader of Ha-
dassah and served on every level of
the organization. She was presi
dent of her local chapter in Dur
ham, president of the Seaboard
region of nine states from 1942-
1945; national vice president from
1954-1957 and was a life member
of its national board since 1942.
She was a dynamic public speaker
who was known as Hadassah’s
“Southern Accent,” and she tra
veled across the South in the late
1930s and 1940s organizing local
and state chapters.
During World War 11 the
Evanses signed more than 50 affi
davits for refugees from Hitler’s
Europe, personally guaranteeing a
job from an American citizen in
order for them to receive a visa.
Many worked in the Evans store
and she counted meeting their
children as some of her proudest
moments. After the creation of the
State of Israel in 1948, she and her
husband worked with North Caro
lina senators and congressmen and
other Southern political leaders for
the political support of Israel.
Mrs. Evans inherited her pas
sion for Israel from her parents,
Jenny B. and Eli Nachamson. Mrs.
Mrs. Marjorie Liebman
Mrs. Marjorie Liebman, 80, of
Atlanta died Tuesday, March 25.
Graveside serv ice was field Wed
nesday, March 26, at Crest Lawn
Cemetery with Rabbi Alvin M.
Sugarman officiating.
A native of Plaquemine, La., she
operated a public relations and
advertising firm. She was a mem
ber of The Temple.
A former president of the l eague
of Women Voters ot Atlanta-Fulton
Countv from 1944-45. she was
named Atlanta’s “woman of the
year" in civic affairs in 1948.
She was the widow of Charles
Liebman. Survivors include sis-
ters-in law, Mrs. Ralph K. Uhry
and Mrs. Claude Gortatowsky
both ol Atlanta; nieces, Mrs.
Edward M. Abrams of Atlanta
and Mrs Harry Zuber of Houston;
a nephew, Alfred Uhry of New
York City; and seven grand-nieces
and grand-nephews.
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Nachamson, also a long time Dur
ham resident, founded Hadassah
intheSouthin 1919. Sara, the old
est of eight consecutive daughters
and then a son, accompanied her
mother on a memorable trip to
Palestine in 1933 that, for the rest
of her life, fired her passion for a
Jewish state in the Holyland. All
eight sisters have served as presi
dents of local chapters of Hadas
sah across the South and the fam
ily was of such legend in Jewish
circles, that when the sisters went
to Israel in 1968 for Mrs. Evans'
40th wedding anniversary, the Jer
usalem Post ran a photograph and
a headline which said “Sara and
Her Seven Sisters.” In the syn
agogue famous for its Chagall
windows in Jerusalem’s Hadassah
Hospital is a plaque commemorat
ing the occasion.
Mrs. Evans came to Durham as
a young girl when the Nachamson
family moved there from Kinston
in 1921 and opened United Dollar
Store. She attended Duke Univer
sity and met “Mutt” Evans of
Fayetteville while he was attending
the University of North Carolina.
“Mutt” and Sara Evans built the
Durham store into a chain of
stores in North Carolina and Virgi
nia called United Department
Stores. She was both a talented
business executive and a corporate
officer of several corporations. She
also headed the Women’s Division
of the United Way campaign in
Durham in 1952 and was a mem
ber of the North Carolina Board of
the American Association of Uni
ted Nations, 1961-1963, the
l eague of Women Voters and the
United Fund campaign in 1960.
In the last 15 years, she and her
husband created and supported
the Judaic Studies Center at Duke
University and UNC.
Survivors include her husband;
two sons, Robert M. Evans of
Atlanta and Eli N. Evans of New
York City; five sisters, Grace Tay
lor of Miami Beach, F'la., Ethel
Zeiger of Pompano Beach, Fla.,
Eva Stewart of Charlotte, N.C.,
Mary Wynn of Miami Beach, Fla,,
Doris Frankel of Cape Coral, Fla.;
a brother, William Naxon of Dal
las, Tx.; and four grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to
Hadassah, c/o Beth-El Syna
gogue, 1004 Watts Street, Dur
ham, N.C. 27701; or the Duke
University Judaic Studies Center,
c/o Duke Station, Durham, N.C.
27710.
Dr. Elliott Pomerance
Dr. Elliot R. Pomerance, 67, of
Atlanta died Monday, March 24.
Graveside service was held
Tuesday, March 25, at Greenwood
Cemetery with Rabbi Harry H.
Epstein and Cantor Isaac Good-
friend officiating.
Dr. Pomerance practiced optom
etry in Georgia tor over 40 years
and was past president of the
Georgia Optometric Association
and the Fifth District Optometric
Society.
He was a member of Ahavath
Achim Synagogue, B’nai B’rith,
Shrine Temple, Scottish Rite, the
Standard Club and Allatoona
Yacht Club.
Survivprs include his wife, Mrs.
Lorraine Wilensky Pomerance;
daughters, Mrs. Dale Gillett of
Marietta, Miss Nancy Pomerance
and Miss Jill Pomerance, both of
Atlanta; sister, Mrs. Rita Damon
of Atlanta; brother, Leon Pomer
ance of Augusta; and two grand
sons.
Contributions can be sent to the
American Cancer Society.
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Drs. David and Donna Ross, and the staff of Drs. Pomer
ance and Ross, P.C., mourn the recent passing of Dr. Elliott
R. Pomerance. He will be remembered as a dedicated,
caring professional by all who knew him. Our sympathies
are extended to the Pomerance family.
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