LILY-SAFRA-Obituary

LILY SAFRA

New York, New York

1934 - 2022

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SAFRA--Lily. 1934--2022. With profound sadness, the Edmond J. Safra Foundation mourns the loss of its Chairwoman, Mrs. Lily Safra. Mrs. Safra passed away on Saturday, 9 July in Geneva, surrounded by family and friends. For more than twenty years, Mrs. Safra faithfully sustained the philanthropic...

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Thinking of you my dear friend Adriana.

Although I did not personally know Mrs. Lily Safra, I have come to know of her grace, elegance, sophistication, intelligence, and philanthropic generosity through friends of hers, and the efforts of the Foundation which she chaired. As has been said, "you aren´t wealthy until you have something money cannot buy". Mrs. Safra had the respect and admiration of those she interacted with at all levels. It has also been quoted "it´s easy to make a buck, but it´s a lot harder to make a difference."...

To the family of Mrs. Lily Safra especially Adriana Elia and her kids as well as Eduardo and family: Along with my husband Peter Herkrath, we would like to express our deepest sympathy and condolences on the death of your beloved Mother. I was the one of the nurses who cared for your equally beloved Edmond Safra in all of their residences in New York and Europe. I witnessed first hand how Mrs. Safra truly cared for Edmond and ran a most efficient operation of all their residences and...