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Wilmington. Jewish Community Cemetery. Created by: Jennifer. Added: Jan 4, 2012. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 82949794. Source citation. Bessie was the mother of Shirley Noznisky, who later married photographer Hans Lownds and changed her name to Sara. Later Sara Lownds married Bob Dylan.
She was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on October 28, 1939, to Jewish parents Bessie and Isaac Noznisky.[2] Her maiden name was Shirley Noznisky (or, according to Beatty Zimmerman, Novoletsky).[1] While Shirley was still a child, Bessie had a stroke, and her great aunt Esther came to watch over the family. Al Aronowitz claims her father was a ...
- "Sara"
- Wilmington, Delaware, United States
- October 28, 1939
mother: Bessie Noznisky. children: Anna Dylan, Jakob Dylan, Jesse Dylan, Maria Dylan, Sam Dylan. Sara Dylan was born on October 25, 1939, in Wilmington, Delaware, to Jewish parents Isaac and Bessie Noznisky. Her father, Isaac, was born in Poland, but he immigrated in 1912 and became a US citizen.
- Sara Lownds Early Life
- First Marriage to Hans Lownds & Becoming “Sara”
- Meeting Bob Dylan
- Dylan-Lownds Secret Wedding
- Highs and Lows of The Muse and Poet
- Which Bob Dylan Songs Did His Wife Sara Inspire?
- Bob Dylan and Sara Lownds Breakup
- What Is Sara Lownds Doing Now?
Sara Lownds was born Shirley Marlin Noznisky in 1933 in Wilmington as the youngest child of a Polish Jewish family to Isaaz and Bessie Noznisky. Her childhood was difficult, marked by her parent’s diseases and early deaths. Her mother, Bessies Lawnds, had a stroke when Sara was a little girl and could not raise her. Her closest relative was her bro...
Sara moved to New York in 1959 at 20 years old and started work as a “bunny girl” from the notorious “Playboy Club” while modeling under the Ford agency, where she met Hans Lownds and became his third wife taking up the last name Lownds. Shirley changed her name officially to Sara at the same time as Hans didn’t want to be reminded of his first wif...
Sara and Hans’s marriage started to crumble only one year after birth as The 25 years of difference in age between them began to catch up. She started going out with her husband’s MG sports car and got attracted to the youth scene in Greenwich Village, where she met the new wave of musicians and artists Bob Dylan Met Sara Lownds in 1964 at the wedd...
The couple famously moved into separate rooms in the New York Chelsea hotel along with Sara’s child while Dylan was busy on his “Dylan goes electric” US tour. Sara married Bob Dylan on November 22, 1965, in one of the most unconventional celebrity weddings ever. Dylan is notorious for keeping his private life to himself and decided to get married i...
As seen in many of the family photos taken by photographer Elliott Landy and his stories, Dylan loved being with Sara and the kids. He was a wonderful father and loved having the role of ‘dad.’ Despite living their romantic dreams, in the beginning, Bob and Sara had their problems, which started showing in 1973 when they moved to Malibu, California...
Sara Lownds didn’t earn the role of muse without being the main subject for some of Dylan’s best work of the last 60s and 70s. The catalog of songs he wrote for her covered everything, from first encounters with “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” to life with the children and the sorrows of the breakup. The most straightforward heartfelt song is named afte...
The story goes that one morning in February 1977, after drinking tequila all night with Leonard Cohen and Phil Spector, Bob showed up at their Malibu home with a “strange woman.” Sara comes downstairs to find Bob and one of his girlfriends having breakfast with the “confused kids.” This was the last snap that brought the ultimate divorce between th...
Now out of the spotlight, there is not much public about Sara’s life apart from living in Los Angeles, California. She never remarried, rarely makes public appearances, and does not have a website or social media. It seems she is truly the “Sad Eyed Lady of The Lowlands” that Dylan described as a private person.
- American
- Scorpio
- 1 brother (Julius Marlin Noznisky)
Nov 2, 2016 · Shirley was born in 1939 to her parents Isaac Noznisky and Bessie Levin. She had one brother, Julius, who was 16 years older. Her father was murdered when she was 17 years old in 1956, when he was killed by a drunken immigrant who shot him in the head while he was at a store.
Dec 12, 2023 · Sara Lownds is 84 years old as of 2023. She was born Shirley Marlin Noznisky on October 28, 1939, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. Her parents Isaac Noznisky and Bessie Noznisky were Jewish. Isaac became a US citizen in 1912. He established a scrap metal business at South Claymont Street, Wilmington.
Nov 26, 2022 · Genealogy for Bessie Noznisky / Novoletsky (Levin) (c.1903 - c.1961) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
