Lisa Busalacchi, her friend since second grade, expressed similar sentiments in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.“No one was quite so thoughtful as Gilbert-Kaye,” she said. “It’s not like she gave a million dollars for a building, but if someone was sick or someone died, she was the first one there with food or asking what she could do.”Apropos of nothing, Gilbert-Kaye would drop off gifts at her friends’ homes, Busalacchi said. And she didn’t send one card for a birthday or anniversary, she sent three or four.“Literally, it was no less than three cards for every occasion,” Busalacchi said.Rare was the Friday night that the Kayes did not have Shabbat guests – often there were 10 or more people at their table. She would invite friends to the family’s sukkah on Sukkot, and host to break the fast after Yom Kippur. She made her own challah, and recently forwarded a Passover carrot kugel recipe to Busalacchi.Gilbert-Kaye loved to garden – “We’re talking eight different kinds of lettuce and five different kinds of tomatoes” – and to talk politics, her friend recalled.“She was a devout [US President Donald] Trump supporter,” Busalacchi said. “When he was running for office, she would toast” the then-presidential candidate, “and after he won, she would toast to that.”On her 60th birthday, Gilbert-Kaye posted on Facebook that she was “Fearless at 60! As I enter a new decade, I am full of ‘gratitude’ & thankfulness for the many blessings in my life.”“As I said on my 40th & 50th birthdays,” she continued, “life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”Ilanit Chernick and JTA contributed to this report.