Our Deepest Sympathies:
Shirley Lerner, 90
January 26, 2013.
Shirley Lerner, first secretary of the National Congress of Jewish Deaf, died in Margate, Florida. The daughter of Dr Louis Nagorsky and Leona Klar Nagorsky, she was born in Bronx, New York, on 5 June 1923, and attended the Lexington School for the Deaf. She married Ira Lerner of Mount Vernon, New York, in April 1943 where they lived for fifteen years. They later lived in East Paterson and Hackensack, New Jersey, before moving to Margate, Florida. Shirley and Ira Lerner became active in Deaf organizations in the New York area, including the Union League of the Deaf and the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf. They were active in the Deaf Jewish community, and were among the founders of Temple Beth Or and the National Congress of Jewish Deaf. Shirley Lerner served as the secretary of the NCJD during its formative years, having been elected secretary at the NCJD
