‘She was a cherished grandmother and great-grandmother’

A Five Towns resident for nearly 25 years, Esther Hoffeld, died at her home in Lakemary, Fla. on July 10. She was 91.

Hoffeld lived in Hewlett before moving to Florida in 1979. A housewife, married to her husband, the late Nathan Hoffeld, for many years, she was a former member of the Seawane Country Club in Hewlett Harbor and the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Center.

Family meant a great deal to Hoffeld and she was loved. “She was a cherished grandmother and great-grandmother,” said her daughter, Doris Hoffeld. “She was loved and cherished by her family, and her family was the most important thing to her.”

Hoffeld is survived by her brother, Irwin Zellermaier, her children, Mark and Doris Hoffeld and Elise and Henry Schilowitz, her grandchildren, Randi and Brian Comack, Laurie and Craig Silverstein, Ted, Jodi, Steven and Melissa Schilowitz and Rebecca and Shaun Kotczsynski. She is also survived by her great grandchildren, Justin and Harry Comack, Jacob and Alison Silverstein, Matthew, Leah, Max and Nate Schilowitz, and Morgan and Greer Kotczsynski. Her brother, Adolphh Zellermaier, and her husband, Nathan Hoffeld, predeceased her.

A funeral service presided over by Rabbi Andrew Warmflash of the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Center was held at Boulevard-Riverside Chapels in Hewlett on July 13. She was interred at Montefiore Cemetery in St. Albans, Queens.