Adina Venit Reshotko passed away peacefully on Sept. 15, 2020, one day after entering hospice and having said, or Zoomed, all her goodbyes to loved ones and friends. Rabbi Evette Lutman officiated at the Sept. 17 private service at Golden Hill Cemetery. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements.
“She made the decision to enter hospice on Sunday night, knowing that she had wrapped up her business on this planet,” the family said.
“We are proud of the vibrant, joyous, kind and compassionate way she lived her life, and that she died on her own terms. We will miss her terribly.”
Mrs. Reshotko was born Aug. 15, 1934, to David and Frieda Venit of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, roots she identified with despite spending most of her life in Cleveland and for many years in Denver.
After graduating Brooklyn College in 1953, she married Eli Reshotko, her husband for 67 years.
While raising her family, she earned an MA in early childhood education and founded the Agnon Jewish Day School’s preschool before obtaining an MSW.
A clinic social worker for two decades, Mrs. Reshotko also was an artist who created stone sculptures and paintings.
She was an avid consumer of literary, performing and visual arts. Her pursuit of Hebrew and Judaic studies from the time she was a teenager, as well as her pioneer spirit, motivated the family to live in Israel from 1969 to 1970.
Adina Reshotko is survived by her husband Eli Reshotko; children Deborah (Philip) Hester, Naomi (PB) Schechter and Miriam (Lee) Gordon; grandchildren Sasha, Amity, Levant, Nada and Maia; and sister-in-law Paula Resihotko.
The family hopes to have a memorial service at a later point.
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