Edna “Eddie” Polacheck (née Luntz) of Glendale died from respiratory and heart failure August 1. She was 95.
Born in 1908 in Birmingham, England, she grew up in Pittsburgh, where she graduated from Peabody High School. She transferred from the University of Pittsburgh to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1927 and there earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1930.
She was a member of Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun, the Women’s Welfare Board and the Mt. Sinai Auxiliary; and enjoyed playing bridge, volunteering and her family, according to her daughter Joan (Henry “Pat”) Kerns, of Mequon.
She was an “extremely loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. A college graduate from out of state, ‘Eddie’ was a woman ahead of her time,” said Joan Kerns.
In addition to her daughter, she is survived by her husband of 73 years, Allan; son Jim (Terri) Polacheck of Pittsburgh, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Rabbi Marc Berkson officiated at graveside services August 3. Burial was in Spring Hill Cemetery.
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