Obituaries

Wilma Schwartz died in Palm Beach, Fla., on May 20. She was known as Fifi to her family and friends. Fifi was born March 13,...

  Burton “Buddy” Yavener, of Brookeville, died on May 24. He was 94. Buddy was born in 1925 in Jersey City, N.J., to the late Max...

Bonnie Yorke died on May 21 in Upper St. Clair, Pa. at 79 years old. Yorke was born to Margaret and Hyman Weltman in Cleveland,...

Ruth Greenberg Chaifetz died on June 9 from metastatic thyroid cancer. Chaifetz, daughter of the late Sarah and Carl Greenberg, grew up in Buffalo, N.Y....

Nathan Edelberg, of Silver Spring, died on May 30. Edelberg served in the Army during the Korean War. He and his wife, Mollie, met...

Lennard Loewentritt, of Gaithersburg, died June 12 at age 73. Loewentritt was born in New York City to Alice and Siegfried Loewentritt. A graduate of...

Jack Moskowitz died in his sleep in Washington on June 3 at 93 years old. He was born in 1927 in Detroit, Mich., to Frank...

Bettyann Ronis-Raeburn, of Silver Spring, died in May at age 89. Her given name was Elizabeth Ann Raeburn and she was born in 1930...

Betty Dora Alperstein died on May 30 at 92 years old. She was predeceased by her husband, Benjamin “Benny” Alperstein, and her brother, Robert...

Reuben Harrison, of North Potomac, died on May 31. He was the husband of Lucy Harrison and the late Shirley Harrison; father of Paul...