Doris (Eisenberg) Epstein (1933-2018)

EPSTEN, EISENBERG, DANNER, PLAUT

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

Obituary from the Herald-Tribune, Sarasota, Florida.

Bradenton, FL - Doris Eisenberg Epstein died at Freedom Village in Bradenton, FL on December 25, 2018. She was predeceased by her husband Abraham, emeritus professor of botany at Iowa State University and daughter Beth, a physician in Hood River, OR. She is survived by her eldest daughter Emily, son-in-law Craig Danner, grandsons Justin and Jonathan Danner, brother Benjamin and sister-in-law Marilyn Eisenberg and their family, and niece Lori Epstein Plaut, and her family.

Doris was born in Providence, RI to Joseph and Sarah Eisenberg on January 31, 1933. She grew up in Woonsocket, and graduated from Pembroke College, the women's adjunct college of Brown University. She married Abraham H. Epstein, from Colchester CT, in 1952, and the couple moved to San Diego, where Doris worked as a social worker. After two and a half years in San Diego, the couple moved to Madison, WI, after a brief stay with Doris' parents in Woonsocket, where their first daughter, Emily, was born. Their second daughter, Beth, was born in Madison.

Six years later, the family moved to Ames, Iowa, where Doris earned an MA in library science and worked for many years as an elementary school media specialist at Crawford and Northwood Elementary Schools. She was an active member of the Ames Jewish Congregation and the Interfaith Council. After retirement, Doris and Abe moved to Freedom Village in Bradenton in 2005, where they both volunteered as tutors with the Manatee Literacy Council. She participated in life at Freedom Village and sang in their choral group. They were active members of Temple Beth El in Bradenton, and later of the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism in Sarasota, as well as members of the Sarasota-Manatee Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.