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In Memory

Judith R. Gilbert

Bridgeport Post, July 15, 1968:  Former City Woman Dies in Car Crash

A 25-year –old former Bridgeport woman was killed and her three-year-old son injured critically yesterday in a head-on auto crash in Madison, Wis.  Mrs. Judith Gilbert Neevel, 25, wife of David Neevel, of Madison, was killed instantly in the crash, and her son, Dav Aaron, was reported in “critical” condition in a Madison hospital.

Services will take place at a time to be announced in the A.L. Green funeral home, 927 Grand Street, with Rabbi Sanford Hahn, of Congregation Rodeph Sholom, officiating.  Burial will be in Rodeph Sholom Memorial park, Fairfield.

Survivors, in addition to her husband and son, are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Gilbert of Fairfield, and two brothers, Stephen Gilbert of Westport and Charles A. Gilbert, of Hollywood, Calif.

Bridgeport Post, July 16, 1968:  Mrs. David Neevel

Graveside services for Mrs. Judith Gilbert Neevel, 25, of Madison, Wis., formerly of Bridgeport, wife of David Neevel, who was killed Sunday in a head-on crash in Madison, will take place tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Rodeph Sholom Memorial Park, Kings highway, Fairfield.  The A.L. green funeral home, 927 Grand street, is in charge of arrangements.

Her son, Dav Aaron, was injured in the crash.

A 1961 graduate of Central High School, Mrs. Neevel wrote a play, “Chasing Butterflies” which won the high school’s annual Prize Play contest. She was an honor student at Central where she served on the editorial board of the school’s newspaper and was a member of the yearbook staff.

Mrs. Neevel was a former Junior Post reporter for the Post Publishing company. She was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where she majored in psychology.

Survivors in addition to her husband and son, are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Gilbert of Fairfield; and two brothers, Stephen Gilbert of Westport, and Charles A. Gilbert of Hollywood, Calif.