Anetta Slone Plaut

Anetta Slone Plaut died quietly and at peace on August 14, 2020 at Adelaide of Newton Centre, MA under the care of a loving and remarkably skillful staff. Anetta was born in Brazil in 1938 to Janina and Jan Korsunski who had emigrated from Poland and the Ukraine to join the large Jewish community in the city of Sao Paulo.

On one of her many travels with her family as a teenager Anetta met and in time married Dennis Slone, a South African physician-in-training with whom she lived for four years in South Africa, eventually moving to Brazil for a short time, and finally to the Boston area. Dennis, a pediatrician, was a founder of the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, but sadly died at the height of his career in 1982. They had three sons, first Gregory and Alan born in South Africa and then Mark in Boston, so in her mid-forties Anetta now had the sole responsibility for rearing the family. In 1989, she married a second physician, Andrew Plaut, and he and her sons survive, as do her two stepchildren, four grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.

Anetta was a wordsmith, proficient in seven languages and worked as a medical interpreter for a short while in Boston, and later as a lay-advisor to a troubled youth program operated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

She travelled widely to scores of countries in Europe, Asia and South America, was an avid reader, a deeply devoted moviegoer, a great natural cook with only a marginal need for recipes, and she was keenly attentive to politics and all current events. Anetta had a fine and learned sense of humor, and her impulse to issue candid observations on most matters were well known and treasured by everyone. The world, its spoken words and various cultures were deeply embedded within her, and with that she became a loyal friend, a loving wife, and a world-wise mother and grandmother. Now, alas, we have lost an authentic and genuine lady, but with thanks that she left much of herself within us all.

In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to Welcome Home, www.welcomehomemass.org.