Epilogue
Lou
After two years at the U of R, Lou left Rochester in 1928 to enter Columbia University. He graduated from the business school in1930, and was the Montgomery prize winner for the outstanding accounting student. He was offered a position with the accounting firm of Lybrand Ross Bros and Montgomery. That was to be the his only employment.
While in NY he renewed his friendship with Mollie Collins. They were in the same class at East High in Rochester. They married in 1930 and lived in Brooklyn with Mollie's widowed mother Mrs Collins, a lovely woman.
Mollie continued working as a secretary in NYC until 1941 when they moved to Bayside, Long Island where Larry was born. From Bayside they moved to Great Neck and then to Port Washington. Wherever they lived on Long Island Mrs Collins lived with them. They had summer homes in Connecticut. They retired to Connecticut and then to Florida.
While in the NY area they were avid theater and concert goers, and gardeners. Lou's hobby was photography, he had inherited Mitch's Rolleiflex camera. Later on, Mollie took up photography as well. Sewing was a lifetime hobby with her (Mrs Collins was a seamstress), and reading was very important to her. She later took up weaving.
Lou became a partner in the firm, the first Jew to become a partner, a fact of which he and his family were very proud. He wrote the book "SEC Accounting Practice and Procedure". This book with a very limited readership went through 4 editions and gained prestige for Lou and for the firm.
They traveled extensively, in this country and Europe and Asia, sometimes by themselves, and frequently with friends.
In Florida retirement they continued attending concerts; Lou had started wood sculpting in Connecticut, and began playing more golf, primarily for the enjoyment of being with friends. No scores were kept, and the men only played 9 holes. Lou also started taking lessons on the electric organ. Mollie continued photography, weaving and reading. In her 80s Mollie got a computer and corresponded with family via e-mail, and she used the computer to keep family budgets and finances as well.
They were great hosts to all. Starting in Heritage Village in Connecticut they would invite the family to spend a great weekend with them. Visiting them in Florida was always fun.
While they were still living in New York Mollie was having back problems and underwent a difficult back operation which was successful. In her later years she suffered from (or with) poor vision. Around 1981 while in Florida for the winter, she had a heart attack followed by an uneventful recovery. She started exercising on the treadmill after that, but otherwise it had little effect on her life. In about 1996, on a trip to NY, Mollie suffered her first seizure/fainting episode. It happened again about a year later when they were in Boston. The cause was never determined. In 1999 Lou became concerned about changes in Mollie's personality; she was becoming curt with some people for little or no reason. The episodes in Boston and New York may have been minor strokes. And they continued for the remainder of her life. Mollie died Feb 2000 at age 91.
While they were still living in New York Lou had a rather severe and painful case of bursitis. Thankfully it disappeared [editors note: after a very painful operation], and Lou was able to continue with his normal life, in-cluding gardening and golf. While they were living in Florida Lou had an operation for an enlarged prostate. A few years after that, in the 1980s, Lou was operated on for colon cancer. In the last year or so of his life Lou suffered from a form of dementia which grew worse with time. Lou died May 2000 at age 92.
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