Los Angeles Times - 16.11.2019

LATIMES.COM B

Mount Sinai Memorial Parks - Hollywood Hills 800-600- http://www.mountsinaiparks.org

KREMEN, Samuel

KANE, Judy

Age 81, passed away on November 12, 2019. Predeceased by his beloved wife, Rhoda Iwai and brother, Shiro Iwai; he is survived by his children, Tami Iwai-Matsuda, Stacey (Daniel) Ishimaru, and Kent Iwai; grandchildren, Craig Matsuda, and Lauren and Cory Ishimaru; siblings, Kazuo (Cary), Setsuko and Michio Iwai; he is also survived by nieces, nephews and other relatives. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, December 4, 11:00 a.m. at Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple 815 E. First St. in Los Angeles. http://www.fukuimortuary.com 213-626-

IWAI, Seiji

September 19, 1956 - November 8, 2019

GROSSBLATT TODD, Bonnie

Our beloved Bonnie lost her valiant battle against cancer on November 8. She is survived by her husband of 20 years, Randy Todd; her mother, Gloria Grossblatt; her sisters, Lynn Burr and Julie Etherington, and her nephews, Alex Burr, Jeffrey Burr and Joseph Grossblatt. She will forever be in our hearts.

Erika Esther Glousman (“Mutti”), born in 1930 in Zeitz, Germany, died peacefully in her sleep at age 89 in Los Angeles, California. A Holocaust survivor, Erika, rediscovered life’s beauty in Haifa, Israel, where she met the love of her life, Michael Glousman, at the age of 15. After serving in the Israeli army, Michael and Erika immigrated to Los Angeles, California, where they soon married, had three beautiful children, and continued their whirlwind romance together for the next sixty-eight years. Between serving as a docent at the Museum of Tolerance to baking bittersweet chocolate torts and lemon cakes for her family, Erika always triumphed over adversity by finding the beauty and sweetness around her. A shining light has gone out that will never be replaced, but will always be remembered. Erika will be greatly missed by her adoring husband, Michael Glousman, her children, Sharon and Ken Lodin and Ronald and Marci Glousman, her grandchildren, Melissa and Devin Arbiter, Lindsay and Adam Rapaport, Brandon Glousman, Rachel Lodin, Courtney Lodin, and Brooke Lodin, and her great-grandchildren Dylan and Oliver Arbiter and Emma Rapaport. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Hadassah Southern California or the Museum of Tolerance.

GLOUSMAN, Erika

OBITUARY

NOTICES

Place a paid notice latimes.com/placeobituary Search obituary notice archives: legacy.com/obituaries/latimes

November 26, 1928 - November 13, 2019

KREMEN, Dr. Samuel

Dr. Samuel Kremen, devoted father, grandfather, andbrother, passed away peacefully on November 13,

For 50 years, Sam was the chief
pathologist at West Hills Hospital in
the San Fernando Valley.
Sam was born on November 26,
1928, in Chicago, Illinois, to Reva
Applebaum and Boris Kremen. A
child of the depression, he attended
UniversityofIllinoisbothasan
undergraduate and for medical school.
He married his high school sweetheart,
Anita Bavnick, and they moved to Los
Angeles after he finished his medical
degree in 1953. Sam worked as a
pathologist until retirement at 84
years old.
Sam served his community with his
medical expertise and generous spirit.
He was a pioneer in computerizing
blood tests, helping to make medical
testing more efficient and less
expensive.
A founding member of Temple
Ramah in Northridge (now Ramat
Zion), Sam was president of his
congregation and actively involved
in many aspects of Jewish life in Los
Angeles. Shortly after the “Watts Riots”
of 1968, Sam was a leader in an effort
to build cross-cultural exchange in Los
Angeles. Sam and Anita supported the
West Valley Jewish Community Center,
where they established a library, and
the American Jewish University. Sam
wasaspiritedsupporteroftheStateof
Israel from its creation.
SamservedontheBoardofthe
Oakwood School, attended by his four
children and all six grandchildren.
In the 1970s, he taught physiology
at Oakwood, inspiring some of his
students to pursue medical careers.
Sam loved people and they
loved himback.Charismaticand
opinionated, he loved to engage in
Talmudic dialogue on almost any issue

political, religious, or sociological.
Sam was warm, engaging, and a
powerful voice for his family and
community.
Samuel Kremen is survived by three
children, Ruth Kremen (Paul Adler),
Robin Kremen, and Paul Kremen; and
by his six grandchildren, Laura Adler,
Solomon Adler, David Adler, Rebecca
Kremen, Hayden Kremen, and Arlo
Kremen.
Donations in Sam’s memory can be
made to the Alzheimer’s Association or
the New Israel Fund

To place an obituary ad please go

online to:

latimes.com/placeobituary

or call 1-800-234-

August 8, 1954 - October 25, 2019

MAKITA, Victoria Katsuko

Victoria Katsuko Makita, born on August 8, 1954, raised in Lynwood and resident of Rolling Hills, passed away with her family and friends by her side on October 25, 2019. She is survived by her mother, Dr. Sue Makita; her sister, Jane Karatsu; and her cousins, Linda Nobori (Dean), Dr. Wesley Terasaki (Barb), Stanley Terasaki (Nancy), Dr. Rodney Terasaki (Beth), Carey Terasaki, Cathy Thompson (Jim) and Dr. Tom Hirose. She is also survived by her nephew, Matt Karatsu and niece, Kimi Karatsu; her brother-in-law, Michael Karatsu; her husband, Nelson Delano; her friend, Linda Rapp and many other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held November 23rd Saturday at 11 AM at Mission Valley Free Methodist Church at 1201 S. San Gabriel Blvd, San Gabriel. Burial will follow at Rose Hills. Business casual or Hawaiian attire http://www.fukuimortuary.com (213) 626-

June 12, 1943 - November 4, 2019

LISTA, Corinne June

Corinne June Lista passed away peacefully in the company of her family after a brief illness with lung cancer. Corinne attended Hollywood High School and worked 40 years for Anthem Blue Cross in Woodland Hills, CA; reluctantly retiring in 2010. Family and friends were Corinne’s passion and delight. She is survived by her brother, James, and her daughters, Diane (wife of Michael) and Tracy (wife of Blake). Corinne adored her grandchildren, Thomas and Amanda, who were her greatest joy. Her immense love will be greatly missed. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times.

Cathy Ellen Marks, loving wife, mother, daughter and sister. Born April 13, 1960 and passed away November 13, 2019. Survived by husband Randy, son Jared, daughter Alexandra, mother Marlene Berman and sister Susan Grossblatt. A celebration of her life will be held on Sunday, November 17 at 12:30 pm at Mount Sinai in Simi Valley.

MARKS, Cathy Ellen

July 28, 1929 - November 13, 2019

MARELLA, Frank John

Frank passed away peacefully of natural causes at 90 in Glendora, California. He was born in Lincoln Heights, the Little Italy of Old Los Angeles to Anthony Joseph and Anna Cecilia (Tucci). He is survived by loving wife Shirley of 70 years, their five children: Tony (Stephanie), Steve (Cheri), Dino, Teresa (David), and Sheri (Gordon); grandchildren Travis, Camille, Claire and Cecilia; great- grandchildren Ava, Ireland and Rowen, and sister Joy. He was predeceased by his parents, brother Leonard and son-in-law Doug. He was known as Babe in the family because of all the other “Frank’s” (seven Francesco’s), he was a loving husband, great dedicated Dad and Nanu. He was raised during the Depression, tempered by a war and became a great historian of World War ll. Hardworking, he was a self-taught machinist by trade, specializing in aircraft components and precision tooling, and with partners, owning a business in the ‘70s. He was a loyal alumnus of Cathedral High School (class of ‘47) and a champion welterweight on the boxing team; asked no quarter, gave no quarter. Frank was tough, could be stubborn and born with a chip on his shoulder but also very warm, kind, loyal and generous to his family and friends. Not much for small talk but his smile and eyes said it all. Proud of his Italian heritage and forever a diehard Notre Dame football fan, remembering when the old teams had many players of immigrant stock, especially Italians (of course), Poles and Slavs. Dad would almost go into a textbook depression for a couple of days when they lost, especially a big game. Then he would snap out of it and say “Ah, who cares when you have family around!” He loved having us around; especially at the holidays and frequent get-togethers. He enjoyed fishing off the local ocean piers, cherished the (almost) annual vacation week at Huntington Lake (since 1969) with “The Boys”: his sons, grandson, brother, uncle and nephews. Honoring his request, there will be no services.

Always On Our Minds and Forever In Our Hearts

Con Amore, La Tua Famiglia

To place an obituary ad please go online to:

latimes.com/placeobituary

or call 1-800-234-

TWO side by side cemetery lots in highly desired area in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. Interment spaces 1 and 2, Lot 2387, Section Enduring Faith. $30,000.00. Phone 253-858-

Cemetery Lots/Crypts

RUBIN, M.D., Herbert M.

May 6, 1921 - November 13, 2019

RUBIN, Herbert Martin, M.D.

A remarkable man in so many ways. A child of the Great Depression, a World War II veteran, a devoted Physician for over 60 years, and a loving husband, father, grandfather, and friend. He will be missed more than he could ever imagine. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, November 17th at 2 pm at Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

RAMESH, Kamran

Helen Julie Novodor, born March 21, 1942, died on November 9, 2019. She is survived by her only child Adina (Ron) Holland and her beloved grandsons, Matthew and Eli. She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Shirley Erenberg, many aunts, uncles and her cousin. She was a member of the Red Hat Society of both Southern and Northern California. Memorial service will be held on Sunday, November 17, 11:00 a.m. at Hillside Memorial Park.

NOVODOR, Helen Julie

posal could have some ben-
efits, speeding up construc-
tion of housing projects in
“appropriate” locations. But
he also warned it could give
City Hall the ability to by-
pass the public on more con-
troversial sites.
“There has to be power
given to the public to weigh
in on which areas are appro-
priate,” said Close, whose
group represents 1,
households. “There are
many areas that are appro-
priate. There are other areas
that are not. Single-family
neighborhoods are not.”
Pete White, executive di-
rector of the skid row advo-
cacy group Los Angeles
Community Action Net-
work, said empowering the
mayor could allow council
members who face angry op-
position to homeless proj-
ects to avoid responsibility
by saying, “It wasn’t me, it
was the mayor.”
White said the proposal
could backfire, however, by
making L.A.’s mayor the
lone target for such opposi-
tion across the city. That
kind of pressure could cause
a mayor to cave on the need
for more housing, he said.
Under the proposal, the
mayor’s emergency powers
would need to be renewed on
an annual basis. Ryu and his
colleagues said they also
want the city attorney to
determine whether giving
Garcetti such powers would
require voter approval or
state legislation.
Earlier this year, city and
county elected officials
pressed Gov. Gavin Newsom
to declare a state of emer-
gency on homelessness in
California, a move that has
been billed as a way of free-
ing up state and federal
funds.
Newsom has already
signed a package of legisla-
tion that, among other
things, exempts from envi-
ronmental review homeless
housing and shelter projects
in the city of L.A. that receive
funding from certain public
sources.
The push to give Garcetti
more power is not the only
new attempt at City Hall at
addressing the crisis.
In another proposal in-
troduced Friday, Council-
man Paul Koretz called for

the city to explore setting up designated sites for “well- managed” homeless encampments that could in- clude bathrooms, outreach and security. Koretz touted a similar effort in Modesto, which has established an outdoor emergency shelter where people live in tents. Doing so, he said, would provide a safer place for people to sleep while shelters and housing are still being built. Ideas that once might have seemed unthinkable “may be what we need to get at least a temporary handle on this crisis,” Koretz said. UCLA professor of law emeritus Gary Blasi said he was glad to see L.A. leaders coming to grips with the idea that “we are going to have a large number of residents who do not have access to regular housing for some years.” In light of that, Blasi said, it makes sense to help people “survive in dignity in whatever arrangements can be provided.” Some homeless advo- cates said they worry that Koretz’s proposal could lead to a crackdown on other sidewalk encampments. Jane Nguyen, a member of the homeless outreach group Ktown for All, said she fears it would be used to “criminalize people who don’t want to go into that type of sanctioned encamp- ment.” LaToya Young, who had set up her tent near City Hall on Friday, said she is eager to get into housing but is un- easy about going to a central campground where she may encounter “strange men.” “I’ve been harassed on the streets,” Young said. “I don’t want to be around people like that. Around this area, I feel safe.” City-sanctioned homeless encampments could also face opposition from neighborhood groups. Travis Binen, a member of the group Venice United, said such campgrounds would “make whatever area they put it in more dangerous.” “Why not give them beds and showers and toilets outside the city, where it makes economic sense?” the Venice resident argued.

Housing plan

aims to cut red

tape for sites

[Housing,from B1]

T

he last remaining
survivor of the Hin-
denburg disaster,
Werner Gustav
Doehner, has died at age 90.
Doehner, who died Nov. 8
at a hospital in Laconia,
N.H., was the only person
left of the 62 passengers and
crew who survived the May
6, 1937, fire that killed his fa-
ther, sister and 34 others. He
was 8 at the time.
“He did not talk about it,”
said his son Bernie Doehner.
“It was definitely a repressed
memory. He lost his sister,
he lost his dad.”
As the 80th anniversary
of the disaster approached
in 2017, Werner Doehner said
that he and his parents, old-
er brother and sister were re-
turning to Mexico City from
a vacation in Germany on
the 804-foot-long zeppelin to
Lakehurst Naval Air Station
in New Jersey..
As the Hindenburg ar-
rived, flames began to flicker
on top of the ship. Hydrogen,
exposed to air, fueled an in-
ferno.

“Suddenly, the air was on fire,” Werner Doehner re- called. He said his mother threw him and his brother out of the ship before she left too. They suffered burns. He was in the hospital for three months before going to a hospital in New York City in August for skin grafts. The U.S. Commerce De- partment determined the accident was caused by a leak of the hydrogen that kept the airship aloft. It mixed with air, causing a fire. “The theory that a brush discharge ignited such mixture appears most probable,” the department’s report said. Werner Doehner was born in Darmstadt, Ger- many, and grew up in Mexico City. In 1984, he moved to the United States to work for General Electric as an elec- trical engineer, according to his obituary. He also worked in Ecuador and Mexico. He retired from New England Electric System in Westbor- ough, Mass., in 1999.

WERNER DOEHNER

Last of 62 to survive

Hindenburg disaster

associated press

Associated Press

TRAGIC LOSS Werner Doehner was 8 when his father and sister died after the Hindenburg caught fire in 1937.

basis. “Hi, Nita,” people called out as they saw me. Some pulled me in for hugs. The same thing was hap- pening everywhere I looked. And by the time the trays of oysters and stuffed mush- rooms were empty, people were deep into sharing their stories. I had met Brian Whit- more, who told me he’d been in the shelter three weeks after “self-destruction” in the form of drinking had cost him the job he’d held for 17 years as an Albertsons grocery clerk. And David Foster, 61, who said he’d had a good career for 25 years in medical billing, collection and coding before losing his job four years ago because of pain that made it necessary for him to take a lot of breaks, which was belatedly diagnosed as spinal sten- osis. Reeta Johnson, 47, had lived on a Fullerton bench for more than four years before she got to the shelter. “When it comes to being homeless, it’s about not having support,” she told me. She said she’d had very little from anyone her whole life. I have written quite a bit about my feeling that we as a society need to grow our compassion and empathy for those who do not have homes. I believe that doing so can help us mobilize more effectively to tackle the enormous, growing and complex crisis of homelessness. That of course, front and center, means putting pressure on politicians — who have the greatest power to effect change — and de- manding that they come up with plans and money to provide services and treat- ment and many different forms of housing as effi- ciently and quickly as pos- sible. It also means persuading our fellow citizens to make room in their hearts and in their own neighborhoods for the housing and other infra- structure we’ll have to provide to start making a dent. It is partly in this second sphere, I think, that efforts like the King’s Table can nudge. But the dinners also are about something deeper. They’re about straight- forward, human-to-human offerings of encouragement, help and hope. Because not everything can come from a government program. That organizer I just

mentioned? His name is Lambert Lo — and he and his wife, Line (pronounced Lynn), who live in Santa Ana, began these dinners for the homeless five years ago. They’ve been held at churches and businesses and have just recently branched out into homes. The model has even spread abroad. The name the couple gave the effort expresses how they want the dinners to feel. “When you think of a king, you think of abun- dance and the finest and royalty,” Lo told me. “We want everyone at the King’s Table to be treated like royalty.” Lo said he thinks of the dinners as a “doorway” to lasting friendships and stronger support systems and sometimes to very concrete assistance. In the house, I met an example of this in John Park, the chef of Toast Kitchen & Bakery in Costa Mesa, and a member of his crew, Clarence Williams. Williams met Park when he was a guest at a King’s Table dinner a year ago. Now he’s working for him and recently found housing. Lo, 43, was dressed this early November evening in an elegant casual style. He wore a black T-shirt, black pants, pristinely white Nikes without socks. He looked like the celebrity surf instructor he is. Over the years, he has coaxed big names, including Bill Mur- ray and the late Steve Jobs, onto the waves. But year after year, he

told me, his outreach work to the homeless and the poor has taken over more and more of his life. In Feb- ruary, he began running the compassion ministries for his church, Vineyard Anaheim, which has a big food pantry set up like a supermarket and describes its mission as “stepping into the story of God for the sake of the city.” Half of the 30 people seated at the King’s Table itself were from the Ana- heim shelter. The other half were volunteers, who on this night mostly came from the church. I walked around eaves- dropping on complicated stories involving addiction and abuse and hardship, words of encouragement, laughter, exchanges of emails and phone numbers. And as adults ate, children ran around the yard, squealing and playing. Volunteers are encouraged to bring them. “Homeless people, they so often see parents pulling their kids out of the way as they walk down the road. Here, the kids are smiling. They’re welcoming. They get to remember when it was normal,” Lo said. “This is not a feed. Feeding the homeless, that’s not new. What’s new is sitting together and being together as a family.” By the time the dinner — which featured not just one but two desserts — was over, a lot of people at the table were acting as if they’d known each other for years. Lo urged anyone who wanted to come up and tell

his or her story. Foster did. So did Johnson, who also sang a spiritual song she said had given her suste- nance on that park bench for so long. And everyone who spoke was then encircled by the crowd, with people opening their arms and offering prayers and blessings. When I had first arrived at the Villa Park home of Sean and Jessica Ward, I couldn’t stop gazing at the home next door, which looked like a plantation house. A multi-tiered foun- tain burbled away in the front garden. A sparkling chandelier lit the portico. There are so many ways in which a dinner for the poor in a neighborhood for the rich could feel wrong — only somehow here it mostly didn’t at all. The strength of the welcome, the extraordi- nary warmth was a big part of that. Johnson told me after the evening that she had just one slight note. The dinner was outside in the garden. Guests used the facilities in a small cottage next to the pool. “I love the idea of going to somebody’s house,” she told me. “But I would love it even more if you would invite me in and show me around.” Still, she said, the open- hearted generosity felt to her rare and “really, really nice.” As for Lo, he said he hoped my account of the dinner might convey a sim- ple message: “You can’t do everything, but you can do something.”

Fine dining with a mission

[City Beat, from B1]

ORGANIZER LAMBERT LO watches guests at the King’s Table event. Lo sees the dinners as a “doorway” to lasting friendships and stronger support systems.

Francine OrrLos Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times - 16.11.2019

Get our desktop app

Company

Features

Documentation

Resources