Birth date: Mar 13, 1926 Death date: Aug 20, 2019
Alda O. Wolfson passed away peacefully after a long battle with Alzheimers Disease on August 20th, 2019, at the age of 93 years old. Raised in Rye, NY, she graduated from Port Chester High School. She met her first husband, Rober Read Obituary
Between marriages she had to beat-off the suitors because in addition to being brilliant and intellectual, she was drop-dead-GORGEOUS!
At five years old she taught me how to spell the longest word in the dictionary, antidisestablishmentterrian-ism. She also drilled into me, don't take no for an answer. Because of her my handwriting was by far the best in my classes, and still is to this day. She taught me the love of words and we played Scrabble all the time. We were poor but she always found a way, she was a master improviser: one Halloween we had no $ to buy a costume so she strapped a pillow to me, gave me a red bandana and a gold loop earing, blackface and gave me a mixing bowl and a wooden spoon, voila! Aunt Jemima! I won 1st prize. When she was at Williamsburg and still sharp we watched the Tibetan Book of the Dead together narrated by Lenard Cohen. She was fascinated and after it finished she said to me, "So, we don't actually die?" Exactly, Mom, see ya later!
She taught me how to spell the longest word in the dictionary when I was five: antidisestablishmentterrian-ism. She also taught me to never take no for an answer. She also taught me how to love. See ya later, Mom!
