Dolores Marie Landsman (Nana Dee), 90, resident of Houston, Texas, and formerly of Montgomery, Texas, went to be with her Lord on Friday, May 8, 2026.

Dolores was born in Blessing, Texas, to Jerry and Claudia Lezak on July 22,1935. One of 9 children, she helped on the family’s 100 acre farm in El Maton, working the land and maintaining the home. Dolores was given the chore of baking, and she developed recipes as a child that would persist beyond her lifetime. (Her grandchildren now cook Nana Dee’s whipped icing for their kids.)

At Tide Haven High School, Dolores was a Hall of Fame student athlete. She moved to Houston as a young woman to go to secretarial school (she could still write shorthand at the age of 90) and went on to be a cherished member of the team at Shell oil. Later she worked alongside her husband Lewis to run four successful eye clinics across Texas.

Dolores was christened at St. Peter’s Catholic Church where her daddy played the organ. She lived a lifetime of dutiful worship and adoration to Yeshua. With Lewis each morning Dolores read her Bible, and every evening they prayed Psalms over their family. Dolores always kept a box of One Year Bibles ready to be given away.

For 61 blessed years, Dolores was the doll of dolls to her faithful and loving husband Lewis Arthur Landsman. In recounting their love story, Dolores would always tell of the hearts she broke when she chose him and how she had told her daddy “I met someone. His name is Lew, and he’s a Jew.” Lew and Dee never outgrew their honeymoon phase. On any given day they could be caught slow dancing in their kitchen.

In her youth, Dolores told everyone she was going to birth 4 boys. She named her first Lisa, then Judi, Lori, and Nicki. Last came Lewie, who would forever be her golden boy. Not quite as she had planned, but in the end who could have imagined the glamorous Dee without all of her beautiful daughters.

Dolores is survived by all five of her children and their families.

• Lisa and Greg Ostrowski and their children Olivia (husband Gerrit) and Micah
• Judi and Ray Malone and their children Jarid (wife Lauren) and Jayde (husband Kyle)
• Lori and Charles Polsen and their children Kristen (husband James), Lauren, and Ashley
• Nicki and Larry Hutchins and their children Rachel (husband Jack), Leslie (husband Reed), Sydney, and Chase
• Lewis and Monica Landsman and their children Miranda (husband Agustin), Sarah (husband Adam), Anthony (fiancé Alondra), Emily (husband Joseph), and Nathanael

Dolores has sixteen great-grandchildren: Finley, Caroline, Jacob, Kyle, Russel, Jude, Jase, Taylor, Liam, Mason, Ella, Ainsleigh, Jett, Lev, Lior, and Phineas. Dolores’ legacy of love will live on and multiply through her ever-growing family. At her passing, she had still 2 more great-grandchildren on the way.

She is also survived by her siblings: Edward Lezak, Bobby Lezak and wife Penny, Laverne Tagtmeyer and husband Larry, and all of her sibling’s children and children’s children who cherished her as Aunt and Great Aunt Dee.

Dolores is preceded in death by her husband Lewis Landsman; parents, Jerry and Claudia Lezak; brothers, Marion, Jerry (wife Patsy), and Anthony Lezak; and sisters, Anna Marie Lezak and Evelyn Landry (husband Winston).

Dolores will be remembered for many things: her impeccable taste, the spotless and welcoming home she kept, the countless meals she prepared, her beauty and elegance, her absolute devotion to Lew, how much she loved to laugh and Dee-lax, her generosity, her passion, her signature hairstyle. Dolores was a formidable woman in a class all her own.

In her final year living with Alzheimer's, Dolores inexplicably began to pack her apartment. She was ready to be with her beloved and her Savior; and, true to herself, she wasn’t going unprepared or leaving a mess behind. To our precious Nana Dee we say štastnou cestu. We know she’ll be greeted at Heaven’s gates with “enter, rejoice, and come in.”

The celebration of life service will be held at Congregation Beth Messiah on Sunday, June 7th, at 3:00 pm conducted by her grandson Rabbi Agustin Wainberg. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in her name to Congregation Beth Messiah. The family wishes to extend gratitude to the staff at the Village of Meyerland and Next Level Hospice for caring for Dolores during her final years.