Hello my Dear friend.  I’m so very sad writing this in your honor, because of your passing. .. We met at 14, at the HS of Art & Design, & immediately became Best Friends for over 50 years. I loved so much about you, & was thrilled for your success( & maybe a little jealous) but crushed by your illness, & moving away from NY. Your talent was amazing, your friendship meant the world to me, and I think about you often, especially with all the beautiful art work of yours that enhances my home. You were a force that never gave up... I’m so sad you are gone, & my deepest condolences to your family & friends that knew you & loved you. RIP. 💋💋💋

To family and friends,
Rhonda was a big help to all of us at New Horizons Disability Empowerment Center, and was always willing to share ideas and suggestions especially to all of those in our support group with multiple chemical sensitivities. She was a unique and creative individual and I was glad that she considered me a friend.


Rhonda a creative presence
mind and sprit
yesterday and always. 
I love you Rhonda
Shalom Sweetheart.

estherly

On September 19, 2019 Rhonda's spirit filled my heart as I was gathering some artwork and jewelry to return to her and thank her for the joy of having them.  I am nearing the end of my life and wanted her to know how much those gifts meant to me and that it was time to share them with others.  My years of friendship with Rhonda were extraordinary.  She was a creative force who inspired me to approach my own work with the determination, sincerity, and truth she expressed in every work she made.  Nothing stopped her.  Madame Z,  I cherish my memories of our friendship.  I miss you.  I love you.
Helaine

Dear Scott and Family and other friends,

Rhonda loved my husband Jere and I for many years, as we were among her neighbors in Paulden. She would visit us and sit in the backyard munching an orange and talking about the wisdom of the ages, be it Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, even Christian, as my husband and I were ex-nun and ex-priest. She loved to hear our prayers, to share her favorite prayers with us, and to ponder the great mysteries with us. My dear husband Jere died on August 23 of this year, at age 85, and Rhonda came to visit him just a few days prior to his passing. She left a big red lipstick kiss on his bald head, as she enthusiastically told him that she loved him and wished him a joyous passage. So, Jere never got to learn of her own passage, but I have directed prayers for her in his direction, asking him to "meet up" if such things are possible. I have beautiful pieces of jewelry that she has given me as gifts over these years. I wear them with remembrance and ongoing prayers that her spirit be at peace, and celebrating the creativity of the cosmos.
Warm regards to all who loved Rhonda,
Regina

Rhonda! Passionate, articulate, endlessly creative, deeply engaged with art, ideas, people...with life. When her extreme environmental illness took her into "exile" in desert country, she created a little oasis in which she could breathe clean air in the vast open space that she called her paradise, and in which she again became the artist she could not help being. Helpless! Unable NOT to create beauty...on an old rake, in a rusty bucket, on a scrap of paper, in a bejewelled rope of crystals and gemstones and glass and peculiar bits of metal, in earrings that I will wear for the rest of my life, in words that poured out like torrents of emotion, thought, creativity...and that reflected, too, the harsher realities of her later life experience, carrying her away sometimes on currents of loneliness and despair. She had courage: she kept on keeping on, hard as it so often was. I respect and love her always and am grateful that I knew her. Thank you, Rhonda Zwillinger.
Barbara Du Bois

Dear Scott, dear family, 
Please accept my deep condoleances. I am so sad to hear that Rhonda has died. She was my dear friend since 1986 and one of the most wonderful artists I knew, whose work shaped my life as well as my career as an art-historian, writer and curator. When she became ill and told me, at the beginning of the nineties, that she would not be able to come to Europe again, we promised each other to keep in touch - which is what we did. It started with letters and small parcels (Rhonda liked to surprise me), many telephone calls over the years  and only last week 'Madame Z' and I had a Face Time conversation which she just had learned how to start. There's a parcel on her way to Paulden containing an art magazine about Hieronymus Bosch, because she had started to make 'books' using stamps and fragments of old masters. Many people think that Rhonda stopped working after her illness, but she was an artist until the very end. I am very happy that I visited Rhonda in Paulden together with my daughter in 2015; it was snowing at the time. We celebrated Christmas together and selected works for the exhibition in Rotterdam in 2017. She was so strong, but also very lonely out there and spoke with me the other day about her dream of going back to New York. I did not expect that she would travel there for her funeral and cannot believe that we will never speak anymore. I wish you much strength to  carry this loss. 
Els Hoek

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Rhonda Levine Zwillinger

5 marzo, 1950 – 19 septiembre, 2019

Riverside-Nassau North Chapels

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