In Memory

Lisbeth Kaufman

Lisbeth Kaufman

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11/24/13 11:42 PM #1    

Cathy Ginsberg (Joseph)

Does anyone know what happened to Buffy Kaufman?  We were good friends who connected well after college and then not again.  I would really like to know.  Thanks, Cathy


11/25/13 10:35 AM #2    

Karen Greenhut (Weinberg)

Hi Cathy,

Sadly, Buffie had an aggressive brain tumor and passed away more than 20 years ago.  She was one of my dearest friends from Byron, until her passing. We spent summers together from 10th grade on, as camp counselors in Maine, to lifeguarding at a city pool on Buckeye Road, to a summer driving through Europe wth my family.  She left us much too soon!


11/27/13 09:31 PM #3    

Cathy Ginsberg (Joseph)

Thanks for answering Karen.  It makes me so sad.  We spent a lot of time together.  I remember when her mother died and then her father remarried.  Are you in touch with her sister?  Susie?  Did her mother die of cancer also?  She was only in her 40's then?  I thought she had married, Jim?  Did she have any children?  I think when I talked to her last she was living in a mobile home?  Best Cathy


11/29/13 11:16 AM #4    

Karen Greenhut (Weinberg)

Hi Cathy, 

By the time I got close to Buffie, Susie was in college and then got married. She was at least 6 years older than Buffie and  at our age that seemed a lifetime . I did not have any contact with her. Buffie's dad remarried Margie Squires who was Jeff Squires mom. Buffie and Jim  did live in a mobile home and eventually  divorced, no kids. Brain Fog has set in so my chronology may be a bit off. She lived in Connecticut for a while after that and eventually came to Houston and worked here for a while, met a sweet guy named Bill and they moved to Atlanta where she was for some time before she was  diagnosed.  

Best,

Karen


01/03/14 10:23 AM #5    

Barbara Rosenberg

Dear Friends,

It is lovely to see others who loved Buffie and missed her.  Karen ,I had forgotten that you lifeguarded with us at that pool - remember, "Miss Barbara, if I drown are you going to save me?" and swimming in the opposite end from the public area because there was no filter system?

Buffie and I used to exchange holiday and birthday cards.  In about March of the year that she died, I realized I had received neither and called her home.  She was too ill to have a conversation but I asked her husband to put her on the phone so that I could tell her that I loved her.

She lived across the street from me, and we did science projects - like hatching chickens - and cooked (I remember a leaden chocolate chip cake) and played Park & Shop (which I recall whenever I'm doing one of my strip mall errand days).  Her birthday was the same as my brother's, I believe. 

Let's have a toast to best friends and appreciate those we have now.

Best regards,

Barbara

 


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