Juliette Paskowitz
Juliette Paskowitz | |
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| A young Latina woman, with short dark hair, olive skin, and dark eyebrows, wearing drop earrings Juliette Paskowitz, from a 2021 obituary | |
| Born | Juliet Emilia Paez January 12, 1932 Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Died | May 3, 2021 (aged 89) |
| Spouse | Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz |
| Children | 9, including Salvador Paskowitz |
| Relatives | Sonia Darrin (sister-in-law), Mason Reese (nephew) |
Juliette Paskowitz (January 12, 1932 – May 3, 2021), born Juliet Emilia Paez, was an American singer and matriarch of "the First Family of Surfing".
Early life
[edit | edit source]Juliette Emilia Paez was born in Long Beach, California, one of eight children born to Mexican immigrants Salvador Paez and Emilia Paez.[2][3] She trained as an opera singer at Long Beach State University.[4]
Career
[edit | edit source]Juliette Paez worked as a telephone operator and was a singer with the Roger Wagner Chorale before she married. Paskowitz and her husband opened a surf school at San Onofre in 1975. Along with their children, they were called "the First Family of Surfing".[5] In 1991, the whole family recorded a song written by son David, "It's Real".[6] A documentary, Surfwise: The Amazing True Odyssey of the Paskowitz Family (2007), explored their work and their unusual family life.[7][8][9] She also appeared on The Daily Habit (2008), a news program about surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding. She sued Lionsgate Television and Polsky Films in 2015, for money owed from another project based on the family's story.[10][11][12]
Personal life and legacy
[edit | edit source]In 1959, Paez converted to Judaism, learned to surf, and married physician and surfer Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, as his third wife.[13] (They also married in 1964 in Hawaii.)[14] They had nine children, eight sons and a daughter, born between 1959 and 1974, and raised the children in camper homes,[15] traveling often including stints in Mexico, Hawaii and Israel, but usually based near San Clemente.[4][16][17] After their children were grown, the Paskowitzes lived in Baja California.[18]
She was widowed when Doc Paskowitz died in 2014,[19] and she died in 2021, aged 89 years, at a care home in San Clemente, California. She was survived by her nine children: David, Jonathan, Abraham, Israel, Moses, Adam, Salvador, Joshua, and Navah, as well as 27 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.[20][21]
Her son Salvador Paskowitz became a noted screenwriter. Her daughter, Navah Paskowitz, married actor Ed Asner's son Matt, and is active in autism charities.[22] Israel (Izzy) still runs Paskowitz Surf Camp, with sessions in California, Mexico, and New York.[23][24]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Obituary, latimes.com. Accessed July 9, 2023.
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- ^ Fausto, Alma (2015, Jul 31). "O.C.'s Paskowitz surfing family files suit against studios over proposed TV project: Surf icon's widow says they're owed money for rights to $20 million production" Orange County Register
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- ^ "Dorian Paskowitz; Surfer who gave up his work as a doctor to embrace a nomadic lifestyle that included introducing the sport to Israel", Times [London, England], November 25, 2014, p. 41. via Gale Academic OneFile.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Juliette Paskowitz at IMDb
- Izzy Paskowitz, Daniel Paisner, Scratching the Horizon: A Surfing Life (St. Martin's Publishing 2012). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).; a memoir by one of Juliette Paskowitz's sons
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