Mrs. Beatrice Radman Lorber

Beatrice Radman Lorber (October 27, 1918 – December 3, 2015) Beatrice Radman Lorber died on December 3, 2015 at Daughters of Israel nursing home in West Orange, New Jersey. Her funeral service will be at 3 PM on Sunday, December 6, 2015 at Kimbrell-Stern with interment to follow at Riverside Cemetery. Rabbi Dr. Holly Cohn will officiate. The family will receive friends at Kimbrell-Stern on Sunday prior to the funeral service beginning at 2 PM. Beatrice was born in Richmond, Virginia during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918 to Russian immigrant parents who ran a dry goods store there. Precocious, she drove a car at fourteen and was a 1934 graduate of John Marshall High School. Accepted to the College of William and Mary, her parents would not allow her to go to school so far away (sixty miles), so she enrolled in the pharmacy program at the Medical College of Virginia across the street from her home. A year later she entered Beth Israel School of Nursing in Newark, New Jersey where she graduated in 1938. Married in 1941, Mrs. Lorber left nursing to raise her five sons with her pharmacist husband Emanuel (Manny) Lorber, who was an owner of Grove Pharmacy in Montclair, N.J. where they resided until retiring to Ramat Aviv, Israel in 1969. She returned to nursing later in life and continued working into her late sixties. Beatrice subsequently lived in Margate, Florida and Albany, Georgia before moving to West Orange in 2013. Beatrice, “Grandma Bebes” to those close to her, was a Life Master bridge player and could still bowl 200 into her nineties. She particularly enjoyed solving the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle and was an avid reader, especially of science fiction. A lifelong Democrat, she held strong political opinions, and even after her eyesight failed, would listen to news and political commentary and could often be found engaged in political discourse with friends and family. She was predeceased by her parents Samuel and Lena Hauft Radman, husband Emanuel Lorber, and siblings Albert Benjamin Radman, Sylvia Radman Kallet, and Ruth Radman Meyer. Survivors include sons Charles (Geri) of Verona, New Jersey; David (Karon) of Scottsdale, Arizona; Jeffrey (Alex) of Johns Creek, Georgia; Sam (Joan) of Nashville, Tennessee; and Douglas (Nancy) of Leesburg, Georgia; eleven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She also leaves behind niece and nephews Kathy K. Rensin, Herbert I. Meyer, and Larry Hollander, as well as her devoted friend Lynda Hollander. Lastly, Bea leaves her beloved companion of many years, her terrier, Lady. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the charity of one’s choice.

Mrs. Beatrice Radman Lorber

October 27, 1918 - December 3, 2015