Annette Elaine Pessin Gold

GOLD Atty. Annette Elaine Pessin Gold, of Lauder Hill, Fla., and formerly of New Haven, died on Thursday, May, 2005, wife of the late Atty. Marvin C. Gold. Beloved mother of Jacqueline Gold Platt of New York, N.Y., Patricia R. Gold of Cambridge, Mass., Lindy Lee Gold of New Haven, and Lauren G. Brooks (Edward C. Brooks III) of Orange. Dear sister of Marcia Kagan (Nathaniel) of West Hartford, Atty. Roslyn Montlick (Benjamin) of Guilford, Atty, Sandra Gersten (Aaron) of West Harford, Arnold Pessin, D.V.M. of Lexington, Ky., and the late Harold Pessin and Lindy Feinstein. Loving sister-in-law of A.B. Pessin. Cherished grandmother of Stuart (Kathy) Platt, Michael (Lisa) Plat, Joshua Kroop, Jessica Brooks (Russell Neufeld), Jaime (Ryan) Lynch, also survived by great-grandchildren, Rachel and Julia Platt. Atty. Gold was a graduate of Smith College and the University of Connecticut Law School. She and her late husband had a private law firm Gold and Gold, Subsequently Gold, Gold and Bernblum. After her retirement she served as a referee in Small Claims Court in New Haven. She was a member of the Connecticut Bar Associates, Brandeis University National Women Committee, United Order of True Sisters Cong. Mishkan Israel of Hamden, and the Woodbridge Country Club. Funeral services in the Robert E. Shure Funeral Home, 543 George Street, New Haven, Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The family will receive friends at 1:30 p.m. Interment services to follow in the Mishkan Israel Cemetery, in New Haven. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Fund for Women and Girls, c/o the Community Foundations of Greater New Haven, 70 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT 06510. A private period of mourning will be observed.