Marilyn Landzberg

Beloved wife to Sol, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, sister, and friend, died peacefully at age 93, February 19, 2024, in her home. She lived a life of purpose through example, steeped in love, care and loyalty for family and dearest of friends.

Marilyn was born in Newark, to Julia and Nathan Aboff. She attended Weequahic High School, and then NYU Business School, where she majored in Communications, leading to her employ in marketing, at DeCozen Motors, in Newark. Soon after marriage to Sol, they moved to New York City, raising Joel and Mike in an atmosphere of empathy, humanism, accomplishment and unselfishness. After retirement from an administrative role at McHale Carpeting, Marilyn and Sol traveled the world, while also focusing on a life of support for their children and grandchildren (children Joel and Barbara, and grandchildren Becky and Lizzie and David and Jessica; children Mike and Abby, and grandchildren Nicole and Judah and Ethan). Marilyn found joy and purpose through each, particularly as family grew (Nicole and Jason, with great-grandchildren Sophie and Emmy and Gabi; Judah and Ann, with great-grandchildren Solomon and Claire; David and Heather; Ethan and Fei, with great-granddaughter Ari; Lizzie and Daniel, Becky and Val, and Jessica). Marilyn and Sol were particularly close with their “downstairs” brother and sister-in-law, Morris and Beatrice, whose children (Alan and Carol Landzberg, Karen and Steve Sloan, Susan and Lou Schatz, Brian and Kim Landzberg) were a second family to them. Their relationships with nephews and nieces Martin and Karen Oster, Carolyn and Adam Kaufman, and Meryl and Mark Kearns, were similarly deeply loving and meaningful; they will always remain nephew Howard’s, “Lois Lane” and “Superman”. Of remark, Marilyn was best-friends with Lorraine Friedman, starting as neighbors in Newark at age 4, until the present.

Over the past seven years, Marilyn’s quality of life was immeasurably enhanced through the emotional and physical support of companions in care, Violet and Nino, to whom family remains deeply indebted.

Travel companion, multi-course family meals, computer-generated graphics for birthday and holiday cards, Broadway plays, daily phone calls, and an uncanny ability to remember lyrics to vintage songs, all combine at best to approximate Marilyn’s emblematic depth of empathy and love and caring for her large and extended community of family and friends, through whom her soul lives on.

A memorial service for Marilyn will be held Saturday, February 24, 2024 from 3:00 PM at Sinai Chapels, 114-03 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills, NY 11375.

Memorial contributions in Marilyn’s memory can be made to individual philanthropies of choice.