Lily A. Kent
In Belmont Hills on March 23, 2010 at the age of 77. Born and raised in Morocco, she migrated to the United States in her mid-20s. Lily lived and worked in the Bay Area for more than 40 years, and was married to Gordon Kent for 36 years until his death in 2001.
Lily spoke several languages, traveled the world many times and was truly an international beauty. She will be long remembered for her warmth, kindness, love of children, devotion to the Jewish community, and most of all, her immense love of family.
She touched many lives, but none more than her children (David, Alyssa and Thalia) and grandchildren (Jordan & Ariel). She will be greatly missed, but her legacy will live on each day and for generations to come.
Burial took place last week at Hills of Eternity Cemetery in Colma. Donations in Lily’s memory, to American Alzheimer’s Association or Congregation Beth Jacob in Redwood City, would be appreciated.
Sinai Memorial Chapel
Beyla Markushevich
Passed away peacefully at home on March 28, 2010 surrounded by her entire family.
She was born May 5, 1910 in Latvia, fled as a child to Russia during World War I, came back to Latvia after Russian revolution; fled to Russia during World War II saving her two children from the Holocaust, in which her older brother and sister with her family perished. She came back to Latvia after the war. Her husband, Siman, a soldier during WWII, passed away at age 61 after a long and severe illness.
In 1989 she fled from the Soviet Union to the U.S. with her children and grandchildren, where she became a U.S. citizen at age 85. All the time she was the center of the family universe. To the last days of her life, she sang Yiddish songs to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She is deeply missed by her sons Itskhok and Nokhum, their wives Polina and Valerya, granddaughter Ilana and Alla and their husbands Vladimir and Michael, great-granddaughter Simona and her husband Phillip, great-grandson Mark, great-granddaughter Michelle and by other family and friends.
Her soul would be pleased, if contributions to her memory were made to the Hadassah Medical Organization.