Elissa Rosner

Elissa Rosner of Cutchogue passed away Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. She was 87.

She was born July 14, 1937, in the Bronx to Sylvia and Herman Rosner. She was a first-born twin, with her brother, Andrew, who died several years ago in London. 

After high school, she attended the University of Colorado in Boulder before earning her Bachelor of Arts degree at Washington Square College, NYU. In her professional career, Elissa worked as a freelance book editor for various book publishing agencies. 

Early in her professional career, Elissa opened “Elissa Books” on Beckwith Avenue in Southold, where she talked with local high school students and galvanized their support for local Latino farmworkers, and for Cesar Chavez in California, in their struggle for better working conditions and better wages.

Ms. Rosner Elissa is survived by her wife, Deanna Alpert, whom she married in 2012.

The family has chosen to remember her life privately at this time, with assistance from DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Mattituck.