Services were held on Friday June 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM at Hellman Memorial Chapels, 15 State Street, Spring Valley, NY 10977. Interment followed at Jewish Community Synagogue Cemetery in New Hempstead, NY.
Isaac Zeke Youcha, read by Zack Youcha
My entire family and I want to thank each of you for coming. Geraldine Shavelson Youcha. How lucky we all have been to have known her and to have had her be a part of our lives.
She was an unusual human being. Extremely intelligent, always the top of her class. From high school through Northwestern University for the rest of her life. She spent a lot of her life keeping that gift under quiet wraps. She was loyal, considerate, caring and honest with each and every one of us. She never gossiped nor was ever indiscreet.
Over the last 63 years, I could and did share my deepest thoughts and feelings with her. I know that was true with all of you. We all have lost a good friend, the best I have ever had.
It is our loss. She wanted to go. Just the way she did. Quietly and without fuss. She blows a kiss to each of you. And may the gods bless each of you.
Sharon Youcha
My mom would do anything for me.
In the lat e 90s I was in a gestalt training program. I invited her to do a gestalt weekend with me and she said no, absolutely not.
Later I asked if she would come for me-- I told her she didn't have to talk about herself, and she said yes.
There I learned more about my mom than I had known before. She described her main qualities as loyalty, integrity, and having a zest for life. When I mentioned that sometimes I thought she was private and didn't want to be asked more intimate questions, she said "It is not a double yellow line, Sharon. It is a dotted yellow line, and you can cross it whenever you'd like."
I remember we formed a circle with the other participants and my mom had her arm around my waist. Later I told her that this was the first time I remembered her putting her arms around me since I was much younger. From then on, she hugged me regularly and made hugging one of her mottos.
She told me that she considered me not only her daughter but her friend. That meant the world to me. I will miss her terribly.
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