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Our beloved parents who were joined in marriage nearly 57 years ago are now joined in death just 4 days apart. It seems they were meant to be together for eternity. They lived an amazing life together with nothing left unexplored or unfulfilled. Theirs was a lifetime of love, experiences and memories.

Both native New Yorkers, their story began during a New York City Summer while my father was on break from medical school at Howard University and mother was home from college at the University of Michigan. They fell in love and began their life together in the Washington DC area where they both finished their education. After a year in New York, while our dad completed an internship at Long Island Jewish Hospital, they headed West to Los Angeles with a baby boy and precocious poodle in tow. After completing his military service in San Pedro, dad started a residency in Ophthalmology at UCLA. As the family grew to include 2 more boys and 4 more dogs, he completed his training and opened offices in Torrance and Los Angeles. His illustrious career lasted nearly 45 years. During which he served in leadership positions at Torrance Memorial Hospital, treated generations of patients and taught generations of Ophthalmology residents at both UCLA and UC Irvine. Our mother also had multiple careers during this time. She raised three boys, worked as a teacher and sold innumerable homes on the hill as a realtor.

Aside from our Dad's passion for his career and his family, he and my mother had a passion for travel and cruising unlike many others. They traveled to 6 continents and sailed all the seas. They walked the Great Wall of China, safaried in Africa, circled Mt Everest in a plane and dodged icebergs in the North Atlantic. There were great family trips rafting down the wild Rivers of California, Summers in the desert at Spring Valley Lake and skiing the heights of the Sierra Nevada. They each also had their own individual passions. Our dad loved to sail off the coast of Southern California and mom loved her knitting later in life.

Finally they were committed to their friends who were innumerable. They befriended everyone and made them all feel special sharing adventures and quiet evenings. Living apart from most of our family on the East coast, their friends became their extended family. In their later years, they were devoted to their six grandchildren and were present for all the major moments in their young lives. Only illness slowed their pursuit of everything within their reach. It is fitting that the last time we were altogether as a family was to cheer on my dads beloved Dodgers at Dodger stadium for his 80th birthday.

We are saddened and devastated by their passing, but choose to celebrate their lives in which very little time was wasted. They are preceded in death by Lynn and Edward Gerson, Douglas Gerson, Sally and Joe Davis and Caroline Horowitz. They are survived by sons Larry(Jill) Marc(Jennifer) and Steven(Fiona) Davis, and grandchildren Jakob, Hannah, Joshua, Mason, Aiden and Riley. Anyone wishing to make a donation in our parents memory should please consider the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. This terrible disease affected our dad and our family greatly in their final years and contributed to their deaths.

Larry, Marc and Steven