In loving memory of our family's Bubby & Alte Bubby, Margaret Plotke (Esther Malka Bat Shmuel Aharon Z"L)
Yesterday, Shayna's Bubby and our children's great grandmother returned her soul to her Creator, in the company of her loving family, just two weeks after her 90th birthday.
Bubby was an incredible mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and a loving and doting matriarch to her beautiful tribe of 4 children, 21 grandchildren and 34 great grandchildren KA"H.
In the nineteen years that I knew her and during our many visits to California to visit her or on her many visits to Sudbury, I don't recall her ever saying a negative word about another human being or for that matter complaining about anything. Instead Bubby exuded and bubbled with positivity and love for her family, for her people, for Judaism, for America, for Israel and for humanity as a whole and only wished for the best for everyone.
Despite losing one of her own parents at the age of six years old, Bubby seemed to only know of goodness and happiness. Together with her late husband Jerry who escaped from Nazi Germany in the beginning of the Second World War, they worked very hard and raised a beautiful and loving family.
Her biggest joy was seeing her family connect together and have meaningful relationships with each other. To this end, in recent years Bubby facilitated multiple family get-togethers and enabled all of her Tribe to become closer. It is without a doubt the reason, why the many parts of the family from Los Angeles to Israel, and Seattle and New York and so many other places are all so close and are truly part of the Tribe.
Bubby was tremendously proud of everything that happened in Sudbury and loved coming here for visits. Bubby came for the opening of the Chabad Center, for our children's Bar & Bat Mitzvahs and for other family celebrations and special moments.
Just last March, Bubby was here celebrating with us for a beautiful family Shabbat after the wedding of my brother-in-law, on the weekend before the Coronavirus hit. It was the last big family get together and it was beautiful and special in so many ways. To Bubby these gatherings gave her energy and life and propelled her forward to the next day and the next good deed.
Having an Alte Bubby to have a special and close relationship with, was a tremendous gift that my children merited to have and that we all got to see, and for that we will be eternally grateful and will treasure those memories forever.
G-d gave and G-d took…
Thank you G-d for the gift of Bubby, who was smiling to her family until hours before she died and who inspired us to no end with her love for her family, for her ethics and values, and for her joy in living each and every day. Indeed in her last days and moments, her love for life and for being able to smile even one more time, was what she left us with.
There are many broken hearts mourning Bubby today around the globe, and although not a biological part of the tribe, Bubby treated me and loved me, just like every other grandchild and we became very close over the years.
Bubby we will love you forever and thank you for everything you taught us in life and for the gift of appreciation of life itself which you communicated with how you lived each and every day to the fullest.
May your soul ascend on high and join together with Zaidy Jerry, who is surely waiting for his “Shatze” (“precious one”) and may you continue to have Nachas and joy from your family down here, who will continue to persevere with your legacy of love, good deeds, positivity and family.
Baruch Dayan HaEmet & Yehi Zichrah Baruch