Honoring Myra Dembrow
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- August
- 26
Today, amid a busy, crazy, newsy kind of day, I joined many of my colleagues to celebrate the life and mourn the passing of our former colleague and my neighbor, Myra Dembrow. Myra was just 58, so young, with an attitude of a fighter, a challenger-of-all-things, an intellectual giant, a devoted and wonderful mother and a skilled journalist. She worked for The Journal News for some 33 years, as a sports reporter, news reporter, and layout/design editor and more. I worked with her when I was a copy editor some 20 years ago, and then about a decade ago when I was on the metro desk. She was a no-bull, quick-witted worker who meant business and did her job, extremely well, no matter what was thrown at her. She was also a caring friend and wonderful support for a new mom, offering toys, clothes, advice of her easygoing friendly parenting style (and her children Dan and Audrey, and their many friends are true testaments to her success. I know how proud she was..) At her funeral service this afternoon at Congregation Sons of Israel, many recalled her as “irreverent and reverent.” That was Myra. We were all so lucky to know her, her community was better for her presence and devotion, and she taught us all so much with her constant bravery, her insatiable intellect and her fierce love of friends and family—and her fabulously wicked sense of humor.
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on Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 5:21 pm by Nancy Cutler.
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What a perfect and wonderful tribute to a wonderful person, colleague and friend. Thank you, Nancy. You captured Myra perfectly.