Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....SELIGMAN, JEFFREY STEWART April 2, 2016
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News Star World - April 05, 2016
JEFFREY STEWART SELIGMAN

Jeffrey Stewart Seligman, 72, died suddenly at his home in New Orleans on April 
2, 2016. Visitation will be held at Kilpatrick Funeral Home, 1200 Lamy Lane, 
Monroe on Thursday April 7, 2016 at 9:00 AM, with the services at 10:00 AM and 
burial to follow at the Jewish Cemetery.

Jeff was the oldest son of Helen Grace Perretz and Jacob "Slick" Seligman. He 
was a war baby, born in his mother's hometown, Shreveport, on October 14, 1943, 
and brought up in his father's hometown, Bastrop. He was a boy's boy who loved 
hunting and sports and served as captain of the Bastrop High School basketball 
team. At Tulane University, where he attained both his B.A. and his J.D., he 
was the president of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.

He loved New Orleans, and after a stint in Atlanta, where he worked for 
Citizens and Southern National Bank, he returned to settle in the Garden 
District and spent the rest of his life as a businessman in and around the 
city. Above all he was loyal to Tulane sports and a perennial season ticket 
holder to the university's baseball, basketball, and football programs. The 
evening of December 1, 1973, when the long-suffering Green Wave football team 
bested its rival L.S.U. for the first time since 1948, was one of the great 
nights of his life.

He is survived by his sister, Kay Katz, and her husband Steve of Monroe; his 
brother, Craig Seligman, and his husband, Silvano Nova, of Brooklyn, New York; 
his niece Stacey Sorkin, her husband, Andrew, and their children, Caleb and 
Abby, of Brookville, Maryland; his niece Laura Hunt her husband, Glenn, and 
their daughter, Sadi Grace, of West Monroe; his nephew, Keith Katz, his wife, 
Jamie, and their daughter, Vivian, of San Francisco; his aunts Phyllis Rose 
(Phrose) Raphael of Monroe and Selma Olchin of Great Neck, New York, and his 
uncle Stanley Srochi of Atlanta; and his loving companion, Bobbye Beckerman of 
Metairie.

When Jeff was a boy, a wise neighbor told his Aunt Phrose, "He pretends not to 
care about anything, but he cares more than anybody." For the rest of his life, 
a gruff exterior covered what everyone who knew him could easily tell was an 
extraordinarily large heart. His death leaves his large family—including his 
adored nieces and nephew and a tight knit set of cousins who were like brothers 
and sisters to him— and his many, many friends shocked and bereft.

His family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations in his memory be sent 
to the Tulane Athletics Fund (Box 61075, New Orleans, LA 70169-9986) or, 
because of his deep love of his own dogs and cats, to local humane societies.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.kilpaptrickfuneralhomes.com

Kilpatrick Funeral Home

Monroe, LA

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