GOODMAN, Marian (STAR OF DAVID EMBLEM) (nee Farash)of Buffalo,NY, on August 8, 2018 at the age 94. Born in Rochester to Becky and Hyman Farash, immigrants from a Sephardic community in what is now the Republic of Northern Macedonia, Marian excelled at school and was awarded a scholarship to Syracuse University where she studied business administration; upon graduation, she moved to Brooklyn where she worked as a department manager for the Abraham and Strauss department store. In the early 1950s she moved to Buffalo where she took a similar position at Hengerer’s, then on Main Street.
In 1953 Marian married Seymour Goodman, an Air Force veteran, in the Chinese Room of the Park Lane Restaurant, which 20 years later, Mr. Goodman took ownership of. She continued to work in retailing as a representative of a New York bath accessories firm, Gem Accessories, until, after giving birth to Barbara in 1955 and Neil in 1957, she entered a master’s program at the University of Buffalo from which she received a degree in education. Throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, she worked as a guidance counselor at Cheektowaga Central High School. For many years afterward, she worked in the psycho-endocrinology department at Children’s Hospital on Bryant Street where she was also involved with the Human Growth Foundation.
Marian and Seymour travelled extensively; visiting family in Israel and touring the US, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. They spent the first 25 years of their 65-year marriage on Shoshone Street and the last 40 at the Park Lane Apartments/Condominiums on Gates Circle. They were supporters and members of Temple Beth El, first on Richmond Avenue and then on Eggert Road, and as a young woman, Marian taught Sunday School at Temple Beth Zion on Delaware Avenue.
Marian is survived by her husband and children, as well as her daughter-in-law Emily Whiting and her grandchildren Elisabeth Shovers and Caroline, Charlotte and Nate Goodman. She is predeceased by her sister Emily Lasser. She will be additionally mourned by her brother- and sister-in-law, Neil and Muriel Goodman, her niece and nephew, Karen and Jeff Goodman, and her nephews, Bob and Chic Lasser.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Oshei Childrens Hospital of Buffalo. Arrangements entrusted to AMHERST MEMORIAL CHAPEL LLC.

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