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Ursula Ahnelt-Yezil

Jan. 18, 1944 - Jan. 02, 2017
By
Star Staff

Ursula Ahnelt-Yezil of Springs died on Jan. 2 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. She had been ill with cancer for five years and died of a stroke. She was 72.

Ms. Ahnelt-Yezil, who was born in Hameln, Germany, on Jan. 18, 1944, one of the two daughters of Wolfgang Ahnelt and the former Annie Osterwald, came to the United States after high school with a friend, and in 1966 she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science at Fordham University. In 1967 she began working at the German Information Center in Manhattan, later moved on to the German Consulate, and finally was employed by the German Mission to the United Nations until retiring in 2001. She worked for a few more years after that at a law firm.

In July 1987 she married Michael Yezil, who survives, and they began spending weekends in Springs, eventually moving there year round about three years ago. Ms. Ahnelt-Yezil enjoyed design work and gardening at their house. In addition to her husband, Ms. Ahnelt-Yezil is survived by a sister, Jutta Ahnelt of Bremen, Germany, and by her stepdaughter, Serena Rosso of Tuckerton, N.J.

Ms. Ahnelt-Yezil was cremated at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn and her widower has her ashes. When he dies, he said, his daughter plans to mingle his ashes with his wife’s and spread them at a place they both loved. Memorial donations can be sent to Amnesty International, 5 Penn Plaza, 16th Floor, New York City 10001.

 

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