Celia Giddins

Celia Giddins, of Brooklyn, passed away peacefully October 31, 2012 at The Hebrew Home in Riverdale. Born Cepora (Celia) Cooperman in Montreal, Canada, July 12, 1915, she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1922. Known as Ceil, she was a well-known retailer for over 35 years in Brooklyn. The Miss America Shops on Flatbush Ave. was a leading women's haberdashery destination and served the fashionable women of Brooklyn. Her friend, loving aide, companion and angel, Adora Radford, survives her.

Granny was a devoted mother to Arleen Zahra and Bill Giddins; a loving grandmother to Stacie Appel Bahrenberg, Eric Appel, Carrie Giddins Pergram, Samuel Giddins and Anna Giddins; and an adoring great-grandmother to Rachel and Jack Bahrenberg. She was a wonderful mother-in-law to Walter Zahra and a grandmother-in-law to Michael Bahrenberg and Chad Pergram. Granny was a beautiful, stylish woman, who, in the 1940's, was an early pioneer as a woman who owned her own business. She was a classic Jewish cook and a noted seamstress.

Services with be held at the Kol Ami Chapel-In-The Woods in White Plains, NY on Sunday, November 4 at 12 noon. The family will be sitting shiva at Arleen Zahra's apartment, 11 5th Avenue, NYC.