Myrna Gloria Zolyan

Myrna G. Zolyan, a veteran of the retail fur industry, died March 19th, 2017 in Bethesda. She was 81 years old.  For the past 20 years, she guided customers at Miller’s Furs in Chevy Chase.  She held various roles - sales manager, marketing, overseeing inventory and also was the restyling expert, helping clients attain new and contemporary looks from existing furs.  Ms. Zolyan [nee Godorov] began her retail career under the tutelage of  the late “Fred the Furrier” Schwartz on the East Coast rising from sales to general manager to regional manager at Northern Lights Fur Salon at Bloomingdales and later Meadowland Furs in New Jersey. She also was the general manager at Evans Furs in Chicago.   “My life wasn’t all about furs,” she would often protest. “Fun and politics were also high priorities.” She was an avid boater and fisherman and proud of being named “Queen of the Bay” by the Chesapeake Bay Grady-White Club in 2002.  For four years, Myrna volunteered in the Israeli Defense Force, with assignments ranging from tank battalion support to hospice management.                                          She married her husband, Barrie, in 1954; he died in 1994. They had one daughter, Mallory, married to Charles Schmitt of Shady Side, MD.  She also leaves a niece, Jamie Perry of Shady Side, and nephews, Phillip and Alex Godorov of Cherry Hill, NJ.