Judd Eugene Kahn

Judd was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 3, 1933 to the late Bertha Bernfeld Kahn, from Poland, and the late Samuel Kahn, from Lithuania. He, his late brother Irving, and his late sister Zelda grew up above the family’s candy store and soda shop near Marine Park & Flatbush Avenue, not far from Coney Island. From a young age he worked in the family’s store then later as a stock boy at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Judd was a gifted student who passed a competitive exam to be admitted into the prestigious tuition-free Brooklyn Technical High School, more commonly known as Brooklyn Tech, the alma mater of many famous alumni and still widely considered among the best magnet schools in the country. Sadly both of Judd’s parents died while he was in high school and after graduating from Brooklyn Tech he entered the U.S. Army where he served as a military policeman in Japan during the Korean conflict.

After the Army, Judd moved to Atlanta with a friend to attend Georgia Tech on the GI Bill to study mechanical engineering. Working in the campus library he met and soon married native Atlantan June Evangeline Parrish, a co-worker and then-student at the University of Georgia – Atlanta Division (now Georgia State University). Following Judd’s first post-graduation job at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River near Solomons Island, Maryland they moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where Judd would work for the next 36 years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories, designing nuclear reactor core cooling systems and working on nuclear particle clean up.

After retirement, June and Judd returned to the Atlanta area where all of their children currently reside. In addition to June, his wife of almost 55 years, Judd is survived by daughters Stacey Kahn Denison and her husband George Denison, Kristy Kahn Moresi and her husband Peter Moresi, and Leslie Beth Kahn Sarc and her husband Ralph Sarc; grandchildren Joseph and Madalena Moresi and Gabriel and Isaiah Denison; brother- and sister-in-law Samuel and Carolyn Parrish; nephews Adam and Eric Parrish and Adam’s wife Susie; great-nieces and -nephew Aubrey, Samuel, Chloe and Annabelle Parrish and numerous cousins-in-law.

Following cremation there will be a small memorial service on Sunday October 16th at 1pm for family and friends at a private home in Roswell (please call 404-849-4923 by 10/14 if you would like to attend) .In lieu of flowers a memorial donation may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at alz.org or the ALS Association at alsa.org.