Martha W. Adcock

Martha Adcock passed away peacefully Wednesday morning, Dec. 16, 2009, in San Antonio. She was surrounded by her children and grandchildren. Martha had a long and fulfilled life. Born in Bridgeport, Conn., and raised in New York City, she was of Sephardic Orthodox Jewish ancestry. Her grandmother, Rose, was from Germany and her grandfather, Moses, from Tangiers, Morocco. Her parents, Estrella Wahnish Alsop and Edward "Ned" Hussey, were natives of New York City. All belonged to the Sherith Israel Synagogue in Manhattan, New York City. She was a graduate of George Washington High School and the New York City College of Arts. She attended Juliard School of Art for piano until joining the Army WAC, where she was a World War II nurse. She made her home in Baton Rouge, where she raised her nine children. Martha retired from the city of Baton Rouge and worked thereafter as a trials program hostess at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge. She was longtime member of Beth Shalom Synagogue, where she found her roots. She performed the role of secretary for Liberal Synagogue in its early years. She was very patriotic and was a member of the American Legion Nicholson Post 38 and the Legionnaires. Devoting her later years to spending time with family and friends, she enjoyed traveling, reading and eating out. Her favorite was having coffee at Krispy Kreme. She always had a kind word and was never lacking in philosophical conversation and advice. If you listened, she would share her pearls of wisdom with you and she had a lot to share. Survived by her children, Charlotte Adcock, David Adcock and wife Maria, Charles Adcock, Eve Adcock Landry, Gerald Adcock and wife Christine Vidouria-Adcock, Barbara and husband Gary Owens and Sally Jane and husband William Flores; 19 grandchildren, Luis and Aaron Orihuela, Chloe, Emily and Hannah Adcock, Heather Adcock, Philip and Eric Landry, Joshua Phillips and Benjamin Owens, Nathan, Elise, Kathryn and ISSN Elliott Adcock, serving in the U.S. Navy, stationed in Seattle, Ariel, Aurora and Andrew Adcock, Allison Rose and Billy Flores, Molly and Jacob Samuel Barasch. Her 21st granddaughter will be born March 2010. She is also survived by four great-grandchildren, Adam and Anna Orihuela, Caleb Adcock and Aiden Landry; niece, Janet McDavid; two great-nieces., Courtney and Claudia; a great-nephew, Lincoln' cousins, Billy Rein, Jeff Rein and family and Ethel Wahnish, all of California; a sister-in-law and lifelong friend, Betty McDavid; and a loving brother-in-law, Lloyd Adcock. She was preceded in death by her parents, Estrella Wahnish Alsop and Edward Hussey "Ned" Alsop; grandparents, Rose and Moses Wahnish; uncles, Saul Wahnish and George Wahnish; cousin, Albert Rein; daughter, Rose Adcock-Barasch; son, Roger Adcock; and grandson, Ashley Ryan Adcock. Services to be held at Rabenhorst Funeral Home East, 11000 Florida Blvd., on with visiting at 1 p.m. with services beginning at 3 p.m. Interment at Liberal Cemetery on Florida Boulevard. The family wishes to thank her private physician, Dr. John Prestiagocamo, in Baton Rouge, the Nix Healthcare system and all of her private care givers in San Antonio for all of their services and loving care, Harbor Hospice of San Antonio and her private physician Dr. Latham of San Antonio. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the American Cancer Society.