Jeffrey Melville Shore
Born July 19, 1950 in Quincey, MassachusettsDeparted June 29, 2023 in Melbourne, Florida
Jeffrey Melville Shore, 72, passed away June 29, 2023, at St. Francis Reflections Hospice in Melbourne Regional Hospital, Melbourne, FL. Jeffrey was the youngest son of Solomon and Ida Shore of Quincy and Hull, MA, and Miami Beach (later Mrs. Harry Friedland of Boca Raton). His older brothers Harvey of Marlboro, NJ, and Richard of Fall River, MA and his older sister, Beverly Sheiffer, of Los Angeles, preceded him in death. He is survived by his older sisters Annabelle Shore Schwartz of Oceanside, CA, and Eleanor Ginsburg of Melbourne, FL; sister-in-law Elaine Shore of Marlboro, NJ; nieces Nancy Ellen Shore of New York City, Tara Caden of Oceanside, CA, and Alyssa Immitt of Livingston, NJ; nephews Gary Shore of Reno, NV, Ron Schwartz and David Ginsburg of Las Vegas, and Scott Shore of Marlboro, NJ; and several loving grandnieces and nephews.
Born July 19, 1950, at Quincy City Hospital in MA, Jeffrey first worked in the family tire business, Tremont Tires, in both Quincy, MA and Miami Beach. He was married briefly to high-profile Newbury St. Boston hairdresser Janice Gordon in the 1970s. He played the guitar and sang and earned a BA in Radio, TV, and Film from California State University, Northridge, but a serious accident in the family tire business left him with lasting nerve damage and scuttled his hopes of a professional film career. Jeffrey held various senior-office-assistant positions in the 1980s and 1990s in CA and Florida. He was also a much-admired, handsome, and sought-after chauffeur, often driving rock stars, movie stars, and celebrities such as the Sultan of Brunei and Gregory Peck.
The spiritual essence of Judaism was always very important to Jeffrey, and he was a devoted family man, caring first for his older sister Beverly and then for his beloved mother in the final two decades of her life. For most of the first two decades of this century, he worked as a popular greeter-receptionist at the Melbourne, FL, DMV. During that time, he was a live-in assistant and companion to an older sophisticated widow, Nellie Parrish, until she passed away, in 2017. Jeff then became a very popular Uber driver. In 2018, he was T-boned when a truckdriver ran a red light. After he recovered, he continued to drive through the pandemic, but complications from that accident led to his decline.
Among Jeffrey’s many accomplishments in life, perhaps the most significant was his influence in the late 1960s and early 1970s on Nancy Ellen Shore, a professional performer-writer, and Gary Shore, a composer-musician-arranger, in helping them to understand and appreciate at an early age the importance of the burgeoning hippie counterculture spiritual renaissance and the fecund musical scene it produced.
Jeffrey inherited the extensive art estate of his sister Beverly Sheiffer, a world-traveling, Brandeis-affiliated artist, when she passed away, in 2007. His will and legacy include exciting plans for Nancy Ellen Shore to build a memorial website and mount gallery exhibitions of Sheiffer’s gorgeous works, which include warrior princesses with swords, mandalas, and family portraits. Nancy is also building a website memorializing her late parents’ artistic contributions, including her father’s symphonic works based on biblical themes, such as Genesis, Hebraic Rhapsody, & Psalm 23, all homages to the family matriarch’s fervent Jewish spirituality.
The private family funeral (with private livestream) is at 11:30 a.m. (PST) 8/13 at Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills. 5950 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, immediately followed by interment in the family plot in the Garden of Shemot, where his parents and sister Beverly are buried. Rabbi Larry Goldmark, the executive vice president of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis, an organization of 300 Reform rabbis from throughout the Western United States, will officiate. A private family gathering, “Here Comes the Sun” Celebration of Jeffrey Shore’s Life at a nearby restaurant, follows from 2-5 p.m.
