Mary Putzel Goldman

Published 12:40 am Friday, August 15, 2014

NATCHEZ — Graveside services for Mary Putzel Goldman, 93, who died peacefully surrounded by family Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Natchez City Cemetery with the Rev. Gregg Riley officiating.

Burial will follow under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home in Ferriday.

Mrs. Goldman was born July 25, 1921, in Salisbury, N.C., the daughter of Charles Lewis Putzel and Ellinor Ramsay Putzel.

She was a graduate of Boyden High School and attended Catawba College in Salisbury. During the war years, she worked as a secretary to Representative S. Otis Bland and lived in Washington, D.C., where she met her future husband, Capt. Harry T. Goldman Jr., from Waterproof. They married in Salisbury on Jan. 5, 1946, one week after he returned from the war. They lived in Waterproof until her husband’s death in 2003.

In 2005, she moved to Lambeth House in New Orleans where she enjoyed a happy final chapter in her life. She was the consummate homemaker of the Greatest Generation: cooking, sewing, propagating plants; and as a product of the Great Depression, excelling in creating silk purses from sow’s ears.

Her family was her life’s work and great joy. Friends in Tensas Parish and New Orleans will sorely miss her.

Survivors include three children, Harry T. Goldman III and wife, Jean, of Waterproof, Ellinor G. Howard and husband, Doug, of New Orleans and Rosamond G. Quay and husband, Richard, of Houston; six grandchildren, Jefferson B. Goldman and wife, Amanda, Karen R. Goldman, Ellinor R. Quay, Richard R. Quay, Rosamond R. Howard and D. Douglas Howard III; one step-grandchild, Anne S. Howard of Houston; two great-grandchildren, Jackson C. Goldman and Elizabeth R. Goldman; and a number of nieces, nephews, all who loved her dearly.

Memorials may be sent to Trinity Episcopal Church, Lambeth House or to a charity of choice.