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Barbara Kaplan
June 8, 2007
Dear Minkoff family,
After all these years, I still have fond memories of your Mom. She was such a special lady. Hopefully, thinking of all the good times you shared with her will help ease the pain of your loss.
My best wishes to all,
Barbara Kaplan
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Beth Uffner
June 4, 2007
When I heard from Susan that Flo had passed away the other day, it was as if my own mother had died. In the summer of 1956, when I was 14 years old, I met the Minkoff family. Susan became and remains one of my closest friends, and Flo became a surrogate mother to me, which I sorely needed as my mother was ill and absent from our home for about 3 months.
However, Flo didn’t do those annoying motherly things that my own mother did. Rather she talked to me and, even more, she listened. We had a few things in common right away. Both of us were always reading books and we were both interested in politics. So while the Susan was doing her nails and tweezing her eyebrows, and Debbie and Jeffrey were annoying each other, Flo and I would sit in the small living room in their summer house in Elberon, NJ and talk.
She also welcomed me as a member of the family and, because I was a year or two older than Susan, I was driiving before her own children. I remember that once Flo gave me the keys to her Lincoln Continental and asked me to drive the kids somewhere. This was a high compliment indeed. I was on top of the world.
All through my teenage years I spent many weekends in South Orange and when I was going off to college, no one was prouder than Flo.
Then Susan got married and all of our lives changed and we drifted apart; me living in Los Angeles and Susan and Flo moving to Miami. But little by little we all reconnected, and I made it my business to go to Miami, usually on my way to somewhere else, but sometimes just to see her. And boy oh boy, she was happy to see me. She was truly interested in my life, my career and my plans for the future.
When I told her that I was about to adopt a child, she was the most excited of all my friends. And when, after I was a mom too, Grace and I visited, it was like she adopted Grace too.
About seven years ago I brought the man who I have subsequently married to meet her. They fell in love instantly and I really think that sealed the deal for me. We were in Miami this past January and Rob and I and Susan and Flo had lunch. We had a grand time and later Rob said to me that Flo was a “sexy” woman....even at 96 years old!
It was hard to believe that she was that old because she was always young. She had this great look; dressed in black or white with great style. Her children adored her; and her grandchildren; and her great grandchildren too. And why not; she was as young as they were.
When someone lives as long as she did, mostly they leave before they die. But not Flo. She was present to the very end; loving, caring, and interested in all of us. She remained a part of everyone’s life and that is why I will miss her so much.
Susana Mendez
June 4, 2007
Gordon family,
Sorry for your loss.
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