Susan Kosten

Susan Kosten, age 77, of Germantown, TN, passed away November 5, 2025 after a short illness.

Susan is survived by her husband of 51 years, Alan, her three sons Bobby (Ginny) of Olive Branch, MS, Larry (Kyle) of Decatur, GA, and Andrew (Diana) of Brookings, SD, her grandchildren, Alayna (Johnny), Ace, her great grandsons Isaiah and Abel, and her beloved Pug Rupert. She was preceded in death by her parents, James and Virginia Wood and her sister Nancy Wood.

A Memphis native, Susan was a 1965 graduate of Messick High School. While working at Memphis Title Company she met her husband Alan, a local real estate attorney and was married in 1974. She devoted the rest of her life to her family, raising her three boys.

In the 1980's Susan was an early adopter of aerobics, teaching classes locally in Memphis. She was an avid book reader and lover of classic movies. She also loved art and was an amateur artist herself, filling pages of notebooks and canvases with her own sketches. She loved her animals, particularly her dogs Tuxedo (a black and white cocker spaniel) and her pugs Hubie (named after legendary Memphis Grizzlies coach Hubie Brown) and Rupert.

Susan loved the ocean and loved spending time at her beach condo in Highland Beach, FL and later in life would spend several weeks in Malibu, CA in the summer to escape the heat of Memphis and South Florida.

Susan was also a warrior. She fought back several life-threatening illnesses in the last two decades of her life and always defeated them with courage and grace. She absolutely never gave up when it would have been easy to do so.

A Celebration of Life will be held on November 18, 2025, at 11:00 AM in the chapel of Temple Israel, 1376 E Massey Rd, Memphis, TN 38120