Susan McCartney Horowitz 1938 - 2003

MURRAY, MCCARTNEY, HOROWITZ

Posted By: Marguerite (email)
Date: 7/2/2003 at 12:39:14

Susan McCartney Horowitz, 65, former mayor and Iowa City Council member, of 1129 Kirkwood Avenue, Iowa City, and Evanston, Illinois, died Saturday, June 21, 2003, in Berlin, Germany, of a sudden heart ailment.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated Wednesday, July 2 at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick’s Church with Rev. Michael Phillips officiating. Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 1 at Lensing Funeral & Cremation Service in Iowa City where a rosary will be recited at 4 p.m. and a Vigil Service will be held at 7 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to DVIP (Domestic Violence Intervention Program) or the UI Foundation for the University of Iowa Museum of Art Education Fund.

Susan was born January 5, 1938, in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Charles and Margaret Murray McCartney. She graduated from Brighton High School in Rochester, New York and earned her B.S. from Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1959. She received her M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland, in 1972. On October 24, 1970, Susan married Joel Horowitz in Potomac, Maryland.
In 1964, Susan worked as an administrative assistant in the U. S. Peace Corps in Quito, Ecuador after which she moved to Washington DC where she worked as program officer for the Appalachian Regional Commission. She also served as program officer for the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Moving to Iowa City from Arlington, Virginia, in 1982, Susan became active in many local causes and organizations. This continued when she began sharing her time between Iowa City and Evanston, Illinois, in 2001 where Joel was teaching at Northwestern University. Her activities include serving on the Iowa City Council from 1988 to 1996 and Iowa City mayor from 1994 to 1996. She was a member of the Iowa City and Evanston, Illinois League of Women Voters, member of the Iowa City Planning and Zoning Commission and a representative to the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission and served on the Johnson County Council of Governments. She was also a member of the National League of Cities serving on the Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Committee.
She was a member of St. Patrick’s Church where she was also a choir member and cantor; a member of the Davenport Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, Project Green, the University Women’s Club, the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce, and a leader in Pilgrims After Christ (PAX), a Catholic Intentional Eucharistic community, in Arlington, Virginia.
She served as a volunteer to the Domestic Violence Intervention Program. She was a docent for the University of Iowa Museum of Art and for the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Susan was a volunteer tutor at Mark Twain Elementary School where she was also a PTO member and a founder of its foreign language program. She had also been a member of the Iowa City Community School District Strategic Planning Action Team.
Survivors include her husband, Joel of Evanston, Illinois and Iowa City; her daughter, Katharine Anne Horowitz of Minneapolis, Minnesota; her sister, Mary and her husband Steven Kuhrtz of East Dennis, Massachusetts; her father-in-law, Norman Horowitz of Pasadena, California; her sister-in-law, Elizabeth Horowitz of Berkeley, California; and nephews Daniel Weitsman of Berkeley, California, and Bradford Kuhrtz of East Dennis, Massachusetts.

She was preceded in death by her parents and aunt, Marian Robertson.