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From Rabbi David J. Small

Our heartfelt wishes of Nehama to:

Two daughters, Barbara Fink and her husband Jonathan and Janet Yablonsky and her husband Richard; four grandchildren, Hannah, Mason, Chloe and Paige; two sisters, Arlene Kanner and her husband Jeffrey and Marilyn Okrent and her husband Arthur; and their entire family on the passing of

Lois Labendz

Jan. 14, 2023 /21 Tevet 5783

She was predeceased by her husband, Philip Labendz.


Funeral services will be held on Monday, Jan. 16, at 10:00 a.m., at the Jewish Memorial Chapel in Clifton, NJ, with interment following at Beth El Cemetery in Paramus, NJ. Shiva will be observed at the Yablonsky home in Fairlawn, NJ.


Barbara Fink will sit shiva in her West Hartford home,122 Montclair Drive, beginning Thursday, Jan. 19, from 4:00-9:00 p.m., with minyan at 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 21, from 6:00-9:00 p.m., with minyan at 6:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Jan. 22, 8 a.m.-noon. She will join the Emanuel minyan on zoom on Friday, Jan. 20.


Memorial donations may be made to the Parkinson's Foundation, 200 SE 1st Street, Suite 800, Miami, FL 33131, or to Barbara Fink's discretionary fund (DIrector of Youth and Family Learning Discretionary Fund) at The Emanuel Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford, CT 06117.

May her memory forever be a blessing.

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