Debra C. Kalodner

of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, died on February 20, 2023.  For many years, she insisted that any woman who would tell her age or her weight could not be trusted with sensitive information, but in recent years she fessed up, and at the time of her death was ninety years old, having been born on September 20, 1932, in Port Chester, New York. A graduate of Emerson College, Kalodner was passionate about education, politics, and the Oxford comma.  She always spoke the truth, as she saw the truth, and if you did not follow her advice the first time she gave it, she was happy to repeat it again and again in the belief that you would eventually see that she was right.  Which she often was. She did not suffer fools gladly, but was a great listener, a loyal friend, and a proud and devoted mother and grandmother. Kalodner is survived by her brother, Joseph (Rosemary), daughter, Elizabeth, son, David, and his children, Isabel and Jacob. Donations in her memory may be made to Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.