Donnie Kahn died last week at 87, from the cancer that had
attacked her body. She was a member of the Harlem Yacht Club for 40 years and though
I met her when I joined, 22 years ago, I didn’t get to know her until 2006 when
I retired and joined the “Club Within The Club” (See Blog, 7/26/12), of which
she was a charter member.
Donnie was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and escaped
when the Nazis were invading. She continued to sail her boat, a lovely and well
built and very well maintained Bristol 36’, “Dido,” after her husband died,
before I joined the Harlem, and up to and including 2011, after which her
illness sapped her strength this summer.
I attended her funeral service on
Manhattan’s upper west side, her burial in Mt. Carmel Cemetery near the
Brooklyn-Queens border, a Shiva call in her apartment overlooking the Hudson
River and a small informal dinner in her memory at the Harlem. She was always
cheerful and always game. She will be missed.
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