Amherst, Beulah “Boo” (Littinsky) Shapiro, beloved mother, aunt, great-aunt, and friend, passed gently into the Mystery on April 3, 2017, at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst. She was 93 years old.

Boo was a private person who touched a thousand hearts. Daughter of immigrants, Boo’s childhood was immersed in family in Brownsville, Brooklyn. She spent a fondly-remembered young adulthood in Greenwich Village, interspersed with sojourns as a writer in Los Angeles and Louisville. After WWII, Boo married her treasured husband Wilbur Shapiro (d. 1985). Boo and Will were proprietors of Home and Pottery in Rockland County, New York, a gift and craft shop that was as much a caring community hub as it was a business. 

In retirement Boo resided most notably in Belmont, MA, with an extraordinary circle of new friends as well as family nearby. The final nine years of her life she made her home at Applewood at Amherst, where she founded the weekly meditation group, and composed many a fascinating dinner gathering. Kind, witty, warm, lover of drawings, English setters, beautiful design, tennis, and Threepenny Opera, Boo was a rare bird and a remarkable woman.

Daughter Jody Shapiro and partner Sanford Lewis of Shutesbury, niece Vicky Slavin and husband Steven Pinkerton of Belmont, great-niece Jocelyn Pinkerton of New Orleans, and devoted family and friends bid Boo loving farewell. She goes forth shining. 

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Our English Setter Rescue, PO Box 708, Hilliard, Ohio 43026, or to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105. 

Services will be private.