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despair."
Rabbi Groner read a letter Jill
Co Editor
wrote for the funeral, thanking those
who had given her happiness in life.
fter learning that her liver
On Feb. 12, Jill appeared in a video
cancer was incurable, 30-
"Letter to Oprah" on the Oprah
year-old Jill Hooberman
Winfrey Show to thank the Trillium
wrote poignant letters to
Spa in
family members, including
Birmingham for
one to her infant niece, Lily.
providing
mas-
"I have seen you every
sages during her
day," she wrote. "We have
final months.
taken tons of pictures and
Owner Phyllis
videos so that you will always
LaPrairie and
know me. When you see the
masseuse Amy
videos, I'm talking to you like
Mastrangel treat-
you're a baby ('cause you are
ed Jill three times
right now). I do talk normal-
a week, coming
ly!"
to her home in
Signed, "Love, Auntie Jill."
the latter stages
Lily will grow up and will
of her illness.
know her aunt's love through
"As a 30-year-
the letter and videos. Jill
old woman fac-
Hooberman died March 31 in
ing this out of
her parents' Franklin home.
Jill Hoo berman
the blue, you
"She was a doer," said her
can't imagine
brother, Jimmy Hooberman
what
it's
like,"
Jill
told
Oprah.
of West Bloomfield. "She lived life to
"Cancer and death is in my head
its fullest. She wanted to be good at
24 hours a day. You're constantly say-
everything she did and to succeed in
ing your goodbyes to people, you're
life, and she did."
desperately trying to find a cure and
Jill grew up in Southfield and was
you're trying to spend quality time
on the swim team at Southfield-
with people that you love. It's just a
Lathrup High. She followed her soci-
really horrible thing."
ology degree from the University of
But after a massage, Jill said, "I felt
Wisconsin with a year in Portugal,
like a new person ... it restored my
teaching English to businesspeople.
spirit."
She spent the next eight years in
Said her brother, "Jill made tons of
Chicago, pursuing a corporate career.
friends. She was a great friend to oth-
She worked most recently as a project
ers, and they, in turn, back to her. She
manager for Levy Restaurant Corp.,
was a warm, wonderful, kind, caring,
supervising restaurant renovations. At
special person."
night, she attended Loyola University
Jill Hooberman is survived by her
and in July received her master's in
parents, Paul and Carol Hooberman
business administration.
of Franklin; brother and sister-in-law
She was also a volunteer with the
Jimmy and Sally Hooberman of West
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Bloomfield; niece Lily Shayna
Chicago and a kosher food bank.
Hooberman and grandparents Sam
"Jill had this intense love of life,"
and Bette Hooberman of Southfield.
said Rabbi Irwin Groner of
She was the loving granddaughter
Congregation Shaarey Zedek at her
of
the
late Sadie and the late Abraham
funeral. "She had an eagerness for liv-
Ernstein.
ing, for people, for achievement, for
Interment was at Clover Hill Park
laughter.
Cemetery. Contributions may be
"She had a remarkable combination
made to Gilda's Club Metro Detroit,
of strength and gentleness ... She
attn: Jill Hooberman Spa Day Fund,
would not yield to pain, she would
3517 Rochester Road, Royal Oak, MI
not succumb to the burden of illness.
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When I spoke to her I did not hear
Northland Drive, Southfield, MI
anger, I did not hear despondency,
48075; or to a charity of one's choice.
because she was a life-affirming per-
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman
son. She would not allow the days of
Chapel.
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