Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Edelstein, Hedy, 1944-2018
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Hedy Wintrobe
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Description area
Dates of existence
1944-2018
History
EDELSTEIN, Hedy (née Wintrobe) 1944 - 2018. D. Friday, April 13, 2018. Born in Edmonton Alberta, Hedy earned her BA from Vassar College and settled in Montreal after graduation. In 1974 she married Hymie Edelstein and together they built their home in Saint-Sauveur, in the Laurentians. Hymie died in 1986. In the years that followed, Hedy pursued her musical interests, training as an organist and playing the organ for churches in Sainte-Anne-du-Lac and Saint-Sauveur/Morin Heights. At the same time, she became a skilled Torah reader for Montreal's Reconstructionist Synagogue. Buried at the Dorshei Emet Reconstructionist Congregation Section, Eternal Gardens Cemetery, Beaconsfield.