Judy Abroms

Judith Estrach Abroms (born January 15, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts; died October 18, 2018) was the founder and owner of Etc... jewelry boutique in Mountain Brook Village.

Judith met Hal Abroms while she was a teenager, during a party at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They married in 1949 and moved to Birmingham in 1951. The couple raised four children; Andrew, Candy, Jim and Gina. She opened her own successful boutique in 1983, specializing in designer jewelry. She sold the business to Meg Margjeka when she retired in 2009.

Throughout her life, she and her husband were active supporters of cultural institutions in Birmingham, including the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham Museum of Art, McWane Science Center, Indian Springs School, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Alys Stephens Center, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

They were also benefactors to the city's Jewish community through their support of the N. E. Miles Jewish Day School and the Birmingham Jewish Federation. The Abroms were also notable contributors to United Cerebral Palsy and the YMCA.

Abroms was diagnosed with dementia in 2009. She died in 2018 and was survived by her husband, three of her children, 9 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

References

• "Judith Abroms" obituary (October 18, 2018) The Birmingham News