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Toni (Fortunee) Levi Algazi, beloved mother, wife, sister, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away peacefully on February 21, 2022 at Lions Gate Community in Voorhees, NJ after 96 well-lived years.
Toni was born in Cairo, Egypt on May 11th, 1925, where she resided until 1966 with her husband Charles and five children. She studied fashion design in Cairo at Haute Couture. In Egypt, she designed clothing patterns for the Algazi children’s boutique store. In 1966 the family fled Egypt to escape anti-semitism and ultimately settled in Trenton, New Jersey.
Toni worked as a seamstress before starting a career with the State of NJ. She hosted weekly Shabbat dinners and holidays where she shared her Jewish Sephardic culinary and religious traditions which her family continues to emulate today.
She is survived by her children: Albert (Judee), Jacqueline (Haim), Ezi (Amy), Jocelyne (late husband Lou), and Danielle (Scott) as well as ten grandchildren and their spouses and twelve great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her youngest sister, Jeanette, who lives in Israel.
The funeral will be held Tuesday, February 22, at 2:00 P.M. at Orland’s Ewing Memorial Chapel, 1534 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ.
The service will be livestreamed via the zoom link on the top this page.
Burial will follow at People of Truth Cemetery in Hamilton Township, NJ.
May this beautiful lady rest in peace
As a dear frienf of Judee and Albert and family, i came to know Toni a most amazing mother and woman of strength and faith who like the early Egyptians who fled Egypt with Moses once again saved her children with the grace of God from the infidels in Egypt. She and her now deceased husband are heros of their faith as always loving followers of their faith were blessed by God Himself to have survived all the potential pitfals. Keeping their faith was their blessing and strenght, and they never forgot this, and passed this legacy on to their children and grandchildren.
May the Lord keep Toni with Him in eternity. Toni, His dear and loving servant who loved Him and brought Him many children who now follow Him.
Praise and thanks to God for allowing us to know and love Toni❤️❤️❤️
Rest in peace with God Toni🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹
Though I never met Toni she seems like she was a remarkable woman. May she Rest In Peace.