Dorothy Gozonsky, 87

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Dorothy A. Gozonsky died Nov. 4 in Providence. She was the daughter of the late Joseph and Ruth (Woolf) Adelson and the wife of Edwin Gozonsky to whom she was married for 53 years. Dorothy was a graduate of Pembroke College (Brown University) class of 1952. She received a master’s degree in Speech Pathology from Boston University at the height of the Vietnam protests in 1968.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by her daughters Judi Golias and her husband, Donald,  and Diane Goodman and her husband, Robert; her grandchildren, Andrew Schiffman,  Peter Schiffman and his wife, Jennifer,  Steven Goodman and his wife, Megan,  and Sandra Goodman; two great-grandchildren, Abbigail Goodman and Eliana Schiffman; her sister, Paula Izeman, and several nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in Dorothy’s memory may be made to Camp JORI Children’s Cancer Fund, P.O. Box 5299, Wakefield, RI 02880.