REMEMBERING SORRA COHN
Daughter, sister, mother, aunt, cousin, grandmother, great grandmother(!), sister in law, friend. All words that describe Sorra. Born in 1934 in the tiny mountain town of Kane, PA, Sorra was born to immigrants, Rose and Sam. After Sam’s untimely death when she was only 13 years old, Sorra and her little brother, Mort, grew up around the family dry cleaning business, where they watched their mother work long, hard, days, in order to support the family.She would come to know Ronald Cohn, and as the story goes, “followed him” to Penn State College. They would later marry and Sorra would stay by his side, throughout med school, and to Germany with the US Army, before settling back home in the states – eventually, planting roots back in Pennsylvania.The Cohn family grew with the birth of Sherry in 1960, Debra in 1963, and Michael in 1967. Sorra juggled keeping her home, driving her kids all over town, occasionally doing needlepoint, teaching, and supporting her husband, Ronald, who left way too soon, in 1995. She later moved to NC.Sorra loved playing her piano, painting, hockey, flowers, and her family. She was a treasure to her family and anyone lucky enough to call her “friend.”
Graveside ServiceA graveside service will be held at Shalom Cemetery at 25 Byberry Rd, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006 on Monday, March 28th at 11am.In lieu of sending flowers, the family would prefer that donations be sent in Sorra’s name to the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America, Inc..A reception for the family will be held afterward.