Annie Tahl; Longtime Valley Resident, 106

Annie Tahl, an artist and poet who was a longtime San Fernando Valley resident, has died at an Encino hospital. She was 106.

Mrs. Tahl died Saturday of complications of her age, said her son, B. Benjamin Tahl of Sherman Oaks.

Born in Odessa, Russia, she came to the United States with her parents following the 1905 pogroms in her hometown.

She settled in Chicago, where she made ladies’ hats. After her husband, Dan, died in 1934, Mrs. Tahl raised her children on her own, working full time and never remarrying.

She came to the Valley in 1948 and had been a resident of the Grancell Village Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda since 1971. At the rest home, she stayed active with oil painting and poetry writing.

Paintings by Mrs. Tahl hang on the walls of the rest home, and she published a book of poetry a few years ago.

She is also survived by another son, Donald Tahl of Palo Alto; two granddaughters and one great-grandson.

A funeral service will be held Thursday in Chicago, with burial at Waldheim Jewish Cemetery. Glasband-Willen Mortuary in North Hollywood is handling the arrangements.

A memorial service at the Grancell Village home is pending.