Jeanette Oppenheimer Tabak (March 11, 1920 – July 3, 2020). Funeral service and burial on Monday July 6, 2020 The Temple Cemetery in Jacksonville, FL. She was the caring and devoted wife of the late Martin Tabak, mother of Gabe Tabak (Amy), Sandy Tabak (Marvin Ferebee), and Marcia Tabak (Ed Webman), grandmother of Daniel Tabak (Sarah), Joseph Webman, and Adam Webman, and great-grandmother to Talen Tabak. She was predeceased by her parents Gabriel and Carrie Oppenheimer and her brother Dawson Oppenheimer. Jeanette Tabak was a kind and contented lady who maintained an open-mind and a positive outlook. Her long life revolved around her mother, brother, children, nephews, nieces, and her grandsons.
She was born and raised in Butte, Montana surrounded by a large extended family of aunts, uncles, and numerous cousins during the peak years of the Butte’s copper boom. She went to college at the University of Montana in Missoula and spent her junior year at the University of Georgia, (following in her mother’s footsteps who was a graduate of UGA). Jeanette graduated from University of Montana with a double major in math and English in 1941. After college, she taught grades 1-6 in a one-room schoolhouse in Ismay, MT. During the war she was recruited by the weather service and returned to Butte to serve as a meteorologist at the airport. After the war and her father’s death, she moved to Atlanta with her mother and brother where she worked for Social Security and volunteered with Hebrew Immigration Aid Society (HIAS) to teach English to resettled Holocaust refugees. It was there she met Martin who was one of her students. They soon married and moved to Cleveland in 1954. Martin and Jeanette relocated to Jacksonville which she called home for over 60 years. She was busy keeping the books for Martin’s home-building business, raising her family, regularly attending services at The Temple, and played an active role in The Temple Sisterhood. In her later years, she enjoyed working at The Luggage Shop in downtown Jacksonville. After Martin died, she moved into The Coves and was very involved in community there for over 20 years.
She enjoyed playing bridge, Scrabble, reading, traveling with her daughters, volunteering at River Garden, taking care of her grandsons, and visiting with her many friends. Jeanette was an avid Jaguar fan and followed the Montana Grizzlies. She was a regular at the Jacksonville Symphony, she enjoyed many shrimp dinners with Sandy, Daniel, Sarah, Talen, and Marvin, and loved a good cup of coffee anytime of the day. Contributions in her memory can be made to River Garden Hebrew Home.
Arrangements by Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home of Mandarin, 11801 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville, FL (904) 288-0025.
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