BARBARA G. WERLIN

1929 - 2021

June 1, 1929 - November 8, 2021 Barbara was born in Omaha, Nebraska and passed peacefully in Brentwood, (Los Angeles) California on November 8 with her daughters by her side. She had been suffering the ravages of Alzheimer's disease for more than 10 years. She was preceded in death by her husband Jerry Werlin, parents Hortense and Albert Gilinsky, brother Robert Gilinsky and sister Alice Cohn. She is survived by daughters Laura and Andrea (Valerie), brother Richard (Hetty) Gilinsky, nephew Bill (Kay) Cohn, nieces Carolyn (Mark) Cohn-Morros, Alise Gilinsky, Margaret (Thomas) Noble, Stefanie (Jason) Avishay, Alexandra Gilinsky (John Hering), grandnephews Michael, Asher, Theo and Jack and grandnieces Rachel and Allison. Barbara and Jerry married in 1950 and lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma where their first child Andrea was born. They moved to northern California where second child Laura was born. 2 years later, they moved to southern California where they would live the rest of their lives. In addition to her own children, Barbara loved her "other children" -- the hundreds of students that came through her classroom during her 25 years as a teacher at St. Martin of Tours School in Brentwood. American history was her passion, and in the course of teaching that subject, managed to convince most of her students that she had accompanied the explorer Ponce de Leon in his quest to discover the Fountain of Youth in the 1500s. Not long after retiring from St Martin's, she combined her love of education and Judaism to become a docent at the newly-opened Skirball Cultural Center. A proud graduate of Mills College in Oakland, CA, she got involved in the LA Mills College Alumnae Association when she first moved to southern California. She remained a devoted member for the rest of her life. Funeral services will be held at Hillside Memorial Park on November 11th at 2pm.