Obituary: Linda Barash Beeber

Eishet Chayil, a woman of valor, me yimtza who can find, v’rachok mepneinim mechrah, her worth is far above rubies.

Words from Proverbs, absolutely fitting the life of Linda Barash Beeber. Sung to her every Sabbath in our home. Family, friends, community- Zion itself- all were lucky to have her presence, the benefit of her valor. The void is unfillable.

Born in Brooklyn in 1957, Linda too made sure you knew it. Crown Heights, Flatbush, Sheepshead Bay; with experiences equal to those of Woody Allen and Larry David, only – as she wryly said – “they made money for talking about it.” Linda’s parents, Fishel (Phillip) Barash and Judith Koppel Barash, were both survivors of the Holocaust.

Linda had five wonderful children: Jordana, Elan, Amira, Zev, and Tova. She ensured that each could “stand on their own feet.” She insisted that they have Hebrew names, Jewish day schooling, good marriages with memorably lovely weddings. Bonuses were the wonderful spouses of her kids (Michael, Emily, Roy, Gilad), and her precious grandchildren-Yuval, Eden, and Elah.

Linda also had a brilliant career. As she put it in that very New York way: “I was an MBA on Wall Street and served as a financial analyst at Bank Leumi, the main office of the Israel bank in the States. After our marriage, we had several busy, exuberant years in the city, before moving back to Atlanta.” She would claim that upon leaving New York: “I cried through the whole state of New Jersey.” So, one would understand completely that during her clearly forced diaspora, she “had her a lobotomy in Virginia.”

Georgia it was. She ran the business aspects of her husband’s solo pediatric practice, always fair, prompt, truthful, timely, and carefully exact in her work. Linda had five children, to date three grandchildren, and she always expressed that they all were her crowning achievement. How dear their attachment, how painful the loss, and beautiful the time that has been shared.

From Eishet ChayiI: Kamu va’neiha va’y’ashru’ha, ba-lah va’y’hal’hah, “Her children come forward and bless her, Her husband, too, and he praises her.”
Dear G-d, oh Guardian of Israel, please look over Linda. Appreciate her as all who knew her did.

May she receive the same praise in the Heavens that she so rightly earned on earth.

May your children somehow be comforted in spite of this painful leaving.
Baruch Dayan haEmet – Blessed is the True Judge.

Linda Beeber is survived by her husband, Bruce; her children, Jordana Boneh (Roy Kfir), Elan Beeber, Amira (Michael) Bobrov, Zev (Emily) Beeber, Tova (Gilad) Lev; grandchildren, Yuval, Eden, and Elah Bobrov; and sister, Sabina (Sam) Borenstein. Predeceased by her parents, Phillip and Judith Barash.

Zikhronah levrakha. 

Donations may be directed to American Friends of Magen David Adom, Jewish National Fund, Atlanta Jewish HomeLife, Fulton County Humane Society, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education at The Breman, or Ahavath Achim Synagogue.