Coronavirus Obituary US

Carolyn Becker, 83, was looking forward to life’s next chapter

After losing her husband to pneumonia last year, Becker was determined to follow through with plans to move to Washington, D.C.

Aaron Rubashkin, 92, patriarch of troubled kosher meat empire

Rubashkin opened a butcher shop in Brooklyn in 1953 and eventually presided over the largest kosher meat producer in the United States.

Jeffrey Sanderson, 62, took pleasure in the small things

Sanderson couldn’t get enough of old episodes of “I Love Lucy,” and “Leave it to Beaver,” and loved little more than an outing to the park with a stop for french fries.

Bonds of Life

Alison Schwartz, 29, People magazine staffer and devoted gift giver

Bonds of Life

Lee Kozol, 87, Boston attorney who represented the Patriots

Bonds of Life

Robert Ullian, 75, peace advocate who spray-painted route of the Green Line across Jerusalem

Bonds of Life

David Behrbom, 47, public school teacher who loved the Yankees

Bonds of Life

Hyman Siegal, 90, taught young Leonard Nimoy to develop film

Bonds of Life

Ira Stern, was fixture of Lower East Side Jewish community

Bonds of Life

Martin Wenick, 80, leader of Soviet Jewry fight

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