Leonard Cohen

1926 - 2018

Leonard Cohen obituary, 1926-2018

Leonard Cohen

1926 - 2018

BORN

1926

DIED

2018

Leonard Cohen Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on May 9, 2018.
Leonard Cohen 91, passed away on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. Born in Irvington, he lived in Union, NJ, Boynton Beach, FL, Boca Raton, FL, and Woodland Park, NJ. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II. He was the proprietor of Pilgrim Liquors in Verona, NJ.

He was predeceased by his wife Janice in 2005. Surviving are his children Barry Cohen and his wife Deborah and Judie Cohen, his grandchildren Richard and his wife Melissa, Jonathan, and Michael, and his great granddaughter Abigail Janice Cohen.

Funeral services will be held Friday 10:15AM at the Bernheim Apter Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel, 68 Old Short Hills Road, Livingston, NJ. Entombment will be in Beth Israel Cemetery, Woodbridge, NJ.

Memorial donations may be made in his memory to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, www.stjude.org

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel

68 Old Short Hills Road, Livingston, NJ 07039

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