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Freyda Cohen

June 12, 1944 –

Freyda Helen Feinberg Cohen was born June 12, 1944. She passed away, surrounded by love ones, on Jan. 12 after a three-year battle with lung cancer. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Edward Cohen; her son, Andrew Brian Cohen, and his wife, Debra Michele Cohen; her daughter, Francine Cohen Lazarus; grandchildren, Sarah Marissa Jimenez, and her husband, Edwin Jose Jimenez; Jessica Elaine Cohen; Marc Eric Cohen, and his fiancé, Bailey Elisabeth Funston; Hannah Rebecca Lazarus, and her boyfriend, Jeremy Orelvy Molina.

Freyda liked cooking and traveling and reading and all artsy kinds of things. She loved being with her friends and family, and she enjoyed spending time with her Beth Israel family. Freyda appreciated how she was welcomed by so many new friends upon moving to Sun City Center. She was a life member of Hadassah.

Donations can be made in her memory to Moffitt Cancer Center and Beth Israel Synagogue in Sun City Center.

There was a small graveside service at Beth Israel Cemetery at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16.

A celebration of life will be held from 6 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27, in the Kings Point banquet room in Sun City Center.