Edith Morad

Obituary of Edith Marie Morad

EDITH MORAD OBITUARY By Jennifer Glasse From a little house with a big garden on a dead end street in New Jersey, her love emerged and spread around the world. Edith Morad began life on August 25, 1899, and departed this world, aged 104, on September 4, 2003, quietly, at home. She attained a fourth grade education, but learned new things all her life. She played piano to bring music to silent movies, she raised five children and many grandchildren. She survived the flu epidemic of 1918, and went on to summer in Cape May Point, cook crabcakes and liver and onions for her growing family, drink the occasional glass of beer, and travel with her beloved granddaughter and namesake, Edie Ross. Together they explored Scotland, cruised to Bermuda, crossed the Golden Gate Bridge, waded in the Pacific Ocean, and saw the bright lights of Las Vegas. Even into her 100th year, Edith Morad would venture away from Pennsauken, visiting her grandson Ed Morad's home in Florida, and watching with joy as dolphins leapt through the surf. She loved to play the slot machines and visit the Atlantic City Boardwalk. In her last years, that was as far as she journeyed. Even as age made mobility more difficult, through the generosity of her dearest grandson, Ed Ross, Mrs. Morad was blessed with a group of extraordinary women, who took care of her with love and dignity until the moment she died. Hers was a quiet life, marked by love and magic moments. She is survived by a family that remembers her with joy and laughter. Some are related by blood, and some are not, for sometimes the closest relationships have nothing to do with what family one is born into. Perhaps that was the greatest gift she left behind: bringing people together who, without her, would never have met.
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