Jacqueline Clair Weinstein

Born in Brooklyn and raised on her parent’s farm in Ellenville, New York, Jackie was educated in a one room schoolhouse. She graduated from Ellenville High School in 1942 and entered Mount Sinai Hospital in the cadet nursing program, created to avert a shortage of nurses during WWII. At Mount Sinai she was awarded the prestigious Murray Guggenheim Award for graduating second in her class.

Jackie was beautiful inside and out, loved and respected by all who knew her. She met her cherished husband Max after his return from WWII. They married in 1947 and shared sixty-seven years together until his death in 2014. In 1965, she and Max moved from Brooklyn to Nanuet with their three children. Jackie worked at Nyack Hospital as part of the team of doctors and nurses that opened the hospital’s first coronary care unit in the1960s. At Nyack, she was a strong supporter of the unionization of nurses.

Later, she worked at the North Rockland Health Center and as a corporate nurse at Revlon. In 1976 Jackie accomplished a lifelong goal of graduating from college, the same year as her older son.

Jackie always took care of others. She was kind, compassionate and always ready to help. She was a perfect role model for women in the workforce and still found time to be a long-time democratic committee woman, volunteer for the American Heart Association and a lifetime member of Hadassah.

Jackie’s pride and joy was the close-knit family that she and Max created. She is survived by her daughter Betty Kaplan of New City, son, Howard Weinstein and his wife Rena of Olney, Maryland, and her son Neal Weinstein and his wife Rebecca of Scarsdale, New York.

She is also survived by grandchildren Jesse Kaplan (Lauren Goldberg), Jamie Kaplan (Alexis¬), Laurie Rose (Daniel), Rachel Schwartz (Daniel), Adam Weinstein, Brett Weinstein (Betsy)and Eric Weinstein (Tacha). Jackie’s greatest legacy, however, are her eight great granddaughters, Daliyah and Natalie Rose, Harper, Liv, Marlowe, and Macie Kaplan and Isla and Daisy Schwartz. They always brought joy into her life and a smile to her face,

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Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Hellman Memorial Chapels, 15 State Street, Spring Valley, NY 10977 (845)356-8600 Jewish Funeral Directors.