Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-05-27
Mrs. J. G. Cohen, Dead

Mrs. J. G.. Cohen, mother of E.
Yancey Cohen, of Palisade, died on
Wednesday morning last, about nine
thirty o'clock, after two weeks ill
ness. She had kept cheerful during
the final spell that took her away md
never lost interest in what was going
on around her. Her family had not
given up hope, even on Wednesday
morning when she suddenly began to
sink, and in ten minutes had passed
away. Anxiety had been felt for her
on account of her advanced age, she
being seventy-eight at the time of
her death, but hope was felt that she
would recover. She attended the
Woman's Club luncheon four weeks
ago at the Savoy Hotel, New York,
was shortly after taken down, and
grew gradually weaker and weaker
till the end came.
Mrs. Rebecca Dessau Cohen was
born in Philadelphia in November
1888, but her pareS moved to
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leyan Female College at Macon ii
1857, the first female college in
America, an honor of which she was
always very proud. She was welded
to ]. G. Cohen, of South Carolina, in
1859 at Macon, moving to Savannah,
her husbands home, and coming to
New York after the civil war, where
she had lived until 1906, when she
moved to Palisade with her sons
family.
Mrs. Cohen was member of the
Woman's Club, of Palisade, and until
recent months was active in COM
mittee work of that organization.
She had all of her life enjoyed So
ciety, was found of entertaining, and
had the happy faculty of doing good
for others. This was her general
mental tendency. Her life was liter
ally one of service, and there are hun
dreds who remember her bounty and
gracious kindness.
Mrs. Cohen's later years were
wrapped up in the development of
her two young granddaughters,
Katharine and Evelyn Cohen, chill
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Y. Cohen.
They were her pride, her joy and
hope, and she lived to see them de-
velop into young womanhood, Civ
ing manifestation of the expectations
she had ever cherished for them. She
was fond of travel, and had made two
extended tours of Europe, one in 1887,
the other with her sons family,
stay of twenty months from 1909 to
1911. Up to her last illness her gen
eral health had always been good,
possessed as she was of strong con-
stitution. She was kind and liberal,
generous to fault, almost, and had
scores of friends all over the country.
She was possessed of much interest
ing remininscence, and her faultless
memory added to her gracious charm
as woman it was an honor to know.
Mrs. Cohen always wanted to help
out the Palisade school, and some
years ago presented a beautiful steel
engraving portrait of Lincoln, which
has since hung by the side of one of
Washington in the little auditorium
of the school. The presentation of
the medal was the occasion of special
exercises, at which Mrs. Cohen made
an appropriate address.
The "Palisadian" always had a |
warm friend and helper in Mrs.
Cohen, and her kindly encouragement
will never be forgotten.
The funeral took place yesterday,
Friday, at the residence of the E. Y. |
Cohens, Rabbi Stephen S.. Wise con-
Quoting the services which were
crowded with friends and relatives
from the Hilltop section, New York
and elsewhere. The remains were
.remated at Union Hill, and the
ashes will repose in an urn beside
hose of her husband in a vault of
The cemetery at Savannah, Ga.
The sympathy and condolences of
he entire community go out to the
,ereaved family. There was a pro-
..uslon. OF floral offerings at the
uneral, the Woman's Club sending
beautiful design.