Esther Baran, 100, of West Hartford died July 3. Born in Hartford, she was the daughter of the late Samuel and Yetta (Leibowitz) Sosin. She is survived by her children, Marcia Baran, of West Hartford, Richard Baran and his wife Carol Vienna, Va.; her grandchildren, Lauren Lang and her husband Brian, of Bethesda, Md., and Brian Baran and his wife Emily of Washington, D.C.; her great-grandchildren, Jacob Allan Lang, Lucas Spencer Lang and Matthew Paul Baran; her brothers, William Sosin of Bensalem, Penn., Gershon Sosin and his wife Jean of Bloomfield; and numerous nieces and nephews.