Lisa D. Auerbach
Feb. 25, 1919 - April 29, 2012
Published in the Los Angeles Times on June 3, 2012
Lisa was born in Russia and died in Los Angeles, California. She was the adored wife of Ernest Auerbach for 63 years, until his death in 2010. He proposed on the 2nd date. He thought she looked like Doris Day; she thought he looked like Gregory Peck. It was a marriage made in heaven . Her eyes were gray-green; her hair was dark red. Her favorite color was pink. She loved hummingbirds. Her license plate read "Ex-Pres" because she served as President of most of the organizations she joined or created.
Lisa's leadership included: a Chapter of American Jewish Congress (a civil rights organization targeted by Sen. Joseph McCarthy); a social club with a political activist bent named "The Four Freedoms Club" club, inspired by Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's speech; a synagogue sisterhood; the Diamond Circle fund-raising auxiliary of the City of Hope hospital, being the first woman President; and the fund raising auxiliary of the American Youth Symphony of Los Angeles.
Lisa was fearless, whether it was taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy's HUA Committee in the 1940s or a drunk in a hotel parking lot smacking him across the head with her "pocketbook" when he took a swing at her husband. A lifelong civil liberties advocate, she walked picket lines protesting unfair hiring practices. She studied Journalism in business college; worked as a riveter for Hughes Aircraft during WWII; sold insurance, was an interior decorator, among other jobs, until she permanently retired from the paid work force to raise her family. She was a Toastmistress, a member of the synagogue choir (soprano), and organized the family Passover Seder. With her husband she helped build two synagogues,(JCCP/Kehillath Israel, and Stephen Weiss) one of them twice, donating the religious school. In spite of all this seriousness - she was a master story teller and joke teller --- in Yiddish, English with different dialect accents (Irish , Yiddish and Bronx being her specialties).
Forthright, fearless, unpretentious, unaffected, thrifty, impatient ---- she played a fast game of Rummikub and Mah Jongg and had no patience for laggards. She conquered opponents up until her final days. She was friendly, politically interested and aware, generous - supporting many small and large organizations. She hated hypocrisy, especially among the very religious, of any faith. She surprised her oncologist by surviving liver cancer longer than his outside projections, giving hope for a better outcome for a deadly disease. She was trading jokes with her oncologist up until days before her death. She is survived by her children Lorna Auerbach and Larry Wheat and Heidi Auerbach and John Farkash, three grandchildren, brothers Lawrence Brody and Michael Duchowny and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Russia, U.S. and Uzbekistan, she will be dearly missed by her rummikub and mah jongg groups. She is predeceased by her brother Gregory Harold Duchowny.
Her philanthropic beneficiaries were many and donations may be made in her memory to: Jewish Federation Council of Los Angeles, United Jewish Appeal, Jewish National Fund, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Lupus LA, Jonsson Cancer Center, Kehillath Israel Synagogue, NAACP,United Negro College Fund, Salvation Army, Friendship Circle of Los Angeles, Santa Monica Public Library.
Feb. 25, 1919 - April 29, 2012
Published in the Los Angeles Times on June 3, 2012
Lisa was born in Russia and died in Los Angeles, California. She was the adored wife of Ernest Auerbach for 63 years, until his death in 2010. He proposed on the 2nd date. He thought she looked like Doris Day; she thought he looked like Gregory Peck. It was a marriage made in heaven . Her eyes were gray-green; her hair was dark red. Her favorite color was pink. She loved hummingbirds. Her license plate read "Ex-Pres" because she served as President of most of the organizations she joined or created.
Lisa's leadership included: a Chapter of American Jewish Congress (a civil rights organization targeted by Sen. Joseph McCarthy); a social club with a political activist bent named "The Four Freedoms Club" club, inspired by Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's speech; a synagogue sisterhood; the Diamond Circle fund-raising auxiliary of the City of Hope hospital, being the first woman President; and the fund raising auxiliary of the American Youth Symphony of Los Angeles.
Lisa was fearless, whether it was taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy's HUA Committee in the 1940s or a drunk in a hotel parking lot smacking him across the head with her "pocketbook" when he took a swing at her husband. A lifelong civil liberties advocate, she walked picket lines protesting unfair hiring practices. She studied Journalism in business college; worked as a riveter for Hughes Aircraft during WWII; sold insurance, was an interior decorator, among other jobs, until she permanently retired from the paid work force to raise her family. She was a Toastmistress, a member of the synagogue choir (soprano), and organized the family Passover Seder. With her husband she helped build two synagogues,(JCCP/Kehillath Israel, and Stephen Weiss) one of them twice, donating the religious school. In spite of all this seriousness - she was a master story teller and joke teller --- in Yiddish, English with different dialect accents (Irish , Yiddish and Bronx being her specialties).
Forthright, fearless, unpretentious, unaffected, thrifty, impatient ---- she played a fast game of Rummikub and Mah Jongg and had no patience for laggards. She conquered opponents up until her final days. She was friendly, politically interested and aware, generous - supporting many small and large organizations. She hated hypocrisy, especially among the very religious, of any faith. She surprised her oncologist by surviving liver cancer longer than his outside projections, giving hope for a better outcome for a deadly disease. She was trading jokes with her oncologist up until days before her death. She is survived by her children Lorna Auerbach and Larry Wheat and Heidi Auerbach and John Farkash, three grandchildren, brothers Lawrence Brody and Michael Duchowny and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Russia, U.S. and Uzbekistan, she will be dearly missed by her rummikub and mah jongg groups. She is predeceased by her brother Gregory Harold Duchowny.
Her philanthropic beneficiaries were many and donations may be made in her memory to: Jewish Federation Council of Los Angeles, United Jewish Appeal, Jewish National Fund, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Lupus LA, Jonsson Cancer Center, Kehillath Israel Synagogue, NAACP,United Negro College Fund, Salvation Army, Friendship Circle of Los Angeles, Santa Monica Public Library.
Lisa D. Auerbach
Feb. 25, 1919 - April 29, 2012
Published in the Los Angeles Times on June 3, 2012
Lisa was born in Russia and died in Los Angeles, California. She was the adored wife of Ernest Auerbach for 63 years, until his death in 2010. He proposed on the 2nd date. He thought she looked like Doris Day; she thought he looked like Gregory Peck. It was a marriage made in heaven . Her eyes were gray-green; her hair was dark red. Her favorite color was pink. She loved hummingbirds. Her license plate read "Ex-Pres" because she served as President of most of the organizations she joined or created.
Lisa's leadership included: a Chapter of American Jewish Congress (a civil rights organization targeted by Sen. Joseph McCarthy); a social club with a political activist bent named "The Four Freedoms Club" club, inspired by Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's speech; a synagogue sisterhood; the Diamond Circle fund-raising auxiliary of the City of Hope hospital, being the first woman President; and the fund raising auxiliary of the American Youth Symphony of Los Angeles.
Lisa was fearless, whether it was taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy's HUA Committee in the 1940s or a drunk in a hotel parking lot smacking him across the head with her "pocketbook" when he took a swing at her husband. A lifelong civil liberties advocate, she walked picket lines protesting unfair hiring practices. She studied Journalism in business college; worked as a riveter for Hughes Aircraft during WWII; sold insurance, was an interior decorator, among other jobs, until she permanently retired from the paid work force to raise her family. She was a Toastmistress, a member of the synagogue choir (soprano), and organized the family Passover Seder. With her husband she helped build two synagogues,(JCCP/Kehillath Israel, and Stephen Weiss) one of them twice, donating the religious school. In spite of all this seriousness - she was a master story teller and joke teller --- in Yiddish, English with different dialect accents (Irish , Yiddish and Bronx being her specialties).
Forthright, fearless, unpretentious, unaffected, thrifty, impatient ---- she played a fast game of Rummikub and Mah Jongg and had no patience for laggards. She conquered opponents up until her final days. She was friendly, politically interested and aware, generous - supporting many small and large organizations. She hated hypocrisy, especially among the very religious, of any faith. She surprised her oncologist by surviving liver cancer longer than his outside projections, giving hope for a better outcome for a deadly disease. She was trading jokes with her oncologist up until days before her death. She is survived by her children Lorna Auerbach and Larry Wheat and Heidi Auerbach and John Farkash, three grandchildren, brothers Lawrence Brody and Michael Duchowny and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Russia, U.S. and Uzbekistan, she will be dearly missed by her rummikub and mah jongg groups. She is predeceased by her brother Gregory Harold Duchowny.
Her philanthropic beneficiaries were many and donations may be made in her memory to: Jewish Federation Council of Los Angeles, United Jewish Appeal, Jewish National Fund, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Lupus LA, Jonsson Cancer Center, Kehillath Israel Synagogue, NAACP,United Negro College Fund, Salvation Army, Friendship Circle of Los Angeles, Santa Monica Public Library.
Feb. 25, 1919 - April 29, 2012
Published in the Los Angeles Times on June 3, 2012
Lisa was born in Russia and died in Los Angeles, California. She was the adored wife of Ernest Auerbach for 63 years, until his death in 2010. He proposed on the 2nd date. He thought she looked like Doris Day; she thought he looked like Gregory Peck. It was a marriage made in heaven . Her eyes were gray-green; her hair was dark red. Her favorite color was pink. She loved hummingbirds. Her license plate read "Ex-Pres" because she served as President of most of the organizations she joined or created.
Lisa's leadership included: a Chapter of American Jewish Congress (a civil rights organization targeted by Sen. Joseph McCarthy); a social club with a political activist bent named "The Four Freedoms Club" club, inspired by Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's speech; a synagogue sisterhood; the Diamond Circle fund-raising auxiliary of the City of Hope hospital, being the first woman President; and the fund raising auxiliary of the American Youth Symphony of Los Angeles.
Lisa was fearless, whether it was taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy's HUA Committee in the 1940s or a drunk in a hotel parking lot smacking him across the head with her "pocketbook" when he took a swing at her husband. A lifelong civil liberties advocate, she walked picket lines protesting unfair hiring practices. She studied Journalism in business college; worked as a riveter for Hughes Aircraft during WWII; sold insurance, was an interior decorator, among other jobs, until she permanently retired from the paid work force to raise her family. She was a Toastmistress, a member of the synagogue choir (soprano), and organized the family Passover Seder. With her husband she helped build two synagogues,(JCCP/Kehillath Israel, and Stephen Weiss) one of them twice, donating the religious school. In spite of all this seriousness - she was a master story teller and joke teller --- in Yiddish, English with different dialect accents (Irish , Yiddish and Bronx being her specialties).
Forthright, fearless, unpretentious, unaffected, thrifty, impatient ---- she played a fast game of Rummikub and Mah Jongg and had no patience for laggards. She conquered opponents up until her final days. She was friendly, politically interested and aware, generous - supporting many small and large organizations. She hated hypocrisy, especially among the very religious, of any faith. She surprised her oncologist by surviving liver cancer longer than his outside projections, giving hope for a better outcome for a deadly disease. She was trading jokes with her oncologist up until days before her death. She is survived by her children Lorna Auerbach and Larry Wheat and Heidi Auerbach and John Farkash, three grandchildren, brothers Lawrence Brody and Michael Duchowny and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Russia, U.S. and Uzbekistan, she will be dearly missed by her rummikub and mah jongg groups. She is predeceased by her brother Gregory Harold Duchowny.
Her philanthropic beneficiaries were many and donations may be made in her memory to: Jewish Federation Council of Los Angeles, United Jewish Appeal, Jewish National Fund, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Lupus LA, Jonsson Cancer Center, Kehillath Israel Synagogue, NAACP,United Negro College Fund, Salvation Army, Friendship Circle of Los Angeles, Santa Monica Public Library.
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