Lydia Fellner Horowitz

Lydia Horowitz, age 97, died on August 1, 2018. She was born Lydia Fellner in Vienna, Austria on March 11, 1921 to Julius and Adele. At the age of 18 her parents sent her away to escape the just ahead of the grasp of the Nazis. Aside from an Aunt who later escaped to Australia and an Uncle who served as Lydia’s sponsor into the United States - no one else in the Fellner family survived the Holocaust.

While working as a nurse at Maimonides Hospital she met and married her beloved husband Max. Together they shared a lifelong commitment to helping and healing others. This was demonstrated when Lydia became a member of the surgical team that performed the first American heart transplant procedure un Dr. Michael

E. DeBakey.

Lydia and Max moved to Rio Rancho,New Mexico in 1973. While here she became and active member of the Jewish community in many ways - she helped establish a Reform Synagogue in Rio Rancho, formed and became President of Hadassah of Rio Rancho and remained an engaged participant of Congregation Albert in Albuquerque. Following Max’s death in 1990, Lydia became an world traveler via cruising. She maintained a full life filled with friends,and family Les & Mary Horowitz & the Jewish community which embraced her.

Feel free to honor Lydia’s life by sending contributions to Hadassa of Greater Albuquerque at 4324 Magnolia Dr. Abq, 87111.