2008
Lillian Kushner Hurowitz, 92, a clothing store and pharmacy owner and volunteer, died of congestive heart failure May 25 at her
Rockville home.
Mrs. Hurowitz owned and operated a women's clothing store in Adams Morgan in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and later,
with her first husband, owned and operated Town House Pharmacy in downtown Washington.
She also volunteered at Suburban Hospital in the gift and thrift shops.
She was born in New York. Her family moved to Washington two years later, operating a grocery store in the Deanwood
neighborhood in Northeast D.C., while she was growing up. Mrs. Hurowitz graduated from Eastern High School.
After marrying Meyer "Doc" Kushner, she and her husband ran a pharmacy across the street from the Old Executive Office
Building. One of their most frequent customers was Adm. Richard Byrd, the Antarctic explorer.
She enjoyed painting china, art, knitting and needlepoint, as well as world travel, gardening and golf. She was a member of
Hadassah, the Holocaust Museum and the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington.
Her first husband died in 1981. Her second husband, Fred Hurowitz, died in 1995.
Survivors include a daughter from her first marriage, Paula Bobys of Rockville; four sisters, Genevieve Gordon of Washington,
Miriam Musher of Silver Spring, Fia Salzburg of North Port, Fla., and Anne Parmentola of Portsmouth, N.H.; three grandchildren;
and three great-grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan