Jeffrey Stewart Seligman, 72, died suddenly at his home in New Orleans on April 2, 2016. Visitation will be held at Kilpatrick Funeral Home, 1200 Lamy Lane, Monroe on Thursday April 7, 2016 at 9:00 AM, with the services at 10:00 AM and burial to follow at the Jewish Cemetery.Jeff was the oldest son of Helen Grace Perretz and Jacob Slick Seligman. He was a war baby, born in his mother hometown, Shreveport, on October 14, 1943, and brought up in his father hometown, Bastrop. He was a boy boy who loved hunting and sports and served as captain of the Bastrop High School basketball team. At Tulane University, where he attained both his B.A. and his J.D., he was the president of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.He loved New Orleans, and after a stint in Atlanta, where he worked for Citizens and Southern National Bank, he returned to settle in the Garden District and spent the rest of his life as a businessman in and around the city. Above all he was loyal to Tulane sports and a perennial season ticket holder to the university baseball, basketball, and football programs. The evening of December 1, 1973, when the long-suffering Green Wave football team bested its rival L.S.U. for the first time since 1948, was one of the great nights of his life.He is survived by his sister, Kay Katz, and her husband Steve of Monroe; his brother, Craig Seligman, and his husband, Silvano Nova, of Brooklyn, New York; his niece Stacey Sorkin, her husband, Andrew, and their children, Caleb and Abby, of Brookville, Maryland; his niece Laura Hunt her husband, Glenn, and their daughter, Sadi Grace, of West Monroe; his nephew, Keith Katz, his wife, Jamie, and their daughter, Vivian, of San Francisco; his aunts Phyllis Rose (Phrose) Raphael of Monroe and Selma Olchin of Great Neck, New York, and his uncle Stanley Srochi of Atlanta; and his loving companion, Bobbye Beckerman of Metairie.When Jeff was a boy, a wise neighbor told his Aunt Phrose, He pretends not to care about anything, but he cares more than anybody. For the rest of his life, a gruff exterior covered what everyone who knew him could easily tell was an extraordinarily large heart. His death leaves his large family‚ including his adored nieces and nephew and a tight knit set of cousins who were like brothers and sisters to him‚ and his many, many friends shocked and bereft.His family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations in his memory be sent to the Tulane Athletics Fund (Box 61075, New Orleans, LA 70169-9986) or, because of his deep love of his own dogs and cats, to local humane societies.