MIRA SHEFF

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CORRECTION TEXT ADDITION MIRA SHEFF Mira Sheff passed away on August 27, 2004, in St. Boniface Hospital. She was a beautiful, selfless person who exuded goodness and kindness and devoted her life to her family and her belief in G-d. Mira was born in Slonim, Poland. When the Nazis invaded Slonim and murdered her parents and sister, she was saved by a gentile couple who gave her a home and a job in a restaurant on the Russian border. During the war she met the love of her life, Joseph Sheff, whom she had known while in Slonim. They married in Austria in 1945 and came to New York in 1948. They settled in Perrineville, NJ, where they owned an egg farm. Along with her husband Joseph, a kind and gentle man, she devoted her whole being to raising their daughter Sylvia, their pride and joy. MIRA AND HER FAMILY MOVED TO BELMAR WHERE JOSEPH AND SHE OWNED AND OPERATED AN AMUSEMENT BUSINESS. In 1978, Mira and Joseph moved to North Lauderdale, FL, where Mira continued to reside after Joseph passed away in May 1979. When Sylvia married Perry, her bashert in 1983, Mira spent her winters in Florida and summers in Winnipeg. Mira was a kind and loving person whose radiant smile reflected the generosity of her spirit, and everyone who had the privilege of meeting her found themselves enriched by her endless desire to give. Her fine-honed intuition was always attuned to the happiness of others, from welcoming children to the amusements to bringing together her daughter and future son-in-law. Despite the tragedies of her early life, Mira was always focused on the joy of building the future, instilling her family with a deep sense of religious values that would have made her own parents proud, and ensuring that religious values and values of loving kindness continued with her grandchildren. She was a woman who rebuilt the world. Mira is survived by her devoted daughter Sylvia Schulman and husband Perry; and her grandchildren, Brendan and wife Dara, Justin and Marlon. Mira rests beside her husband Joseph in Menorah Gardens in Fort Lauderdale. Funeral services were conducted by Rabbi Michael Gold of Beth Torah Synagogue in Tamarac. Miras family wishes to express its gratitude to the doctors, nursing staff, assistant nurses and orderlies of St. Boniface Hospital as well as caregivers, Viole Longara, Victoria Saromo, Joy Bautista, Josie Baptista and the staff of the Home Care Program for their exceptional care.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Oct 16, 2004