Estelle Novick's grave at the Beth El Cemetery in Troy misspells her name and gives incorrect dates for her birth and death.

Estelle Novick, who died in 2020, keeps a close eye on the election process at School 18 in Troy on June 3, 2003.

TROY — Estelle Novick died early in 2020, but you wouldn’t know it from her gravestone at the Beth El Cemetery.

The marker says, incorrectly, that Estelle passed away two years earlier, in 2018. It also gets her birthday wrong and misspells her forename, giving it just one L. In other words, nearly everything on the gravestone is inaccurate.

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Reeva Nowitz, who oversees the Belle Avenue cemetery associated with Troy’s Temple Beth El synagogue, noticed the errors in September, shortly after the modest stone was installed. They’ve gnawed at her since.

In part, that’s because she wants the cemetery to be an accurate and honest representation of history. But also, the mistakes seemed unjust. Estelle deserved better.

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