Family File for David Saul MITTMAN - Person Sheet
Family File for David Saul MITTMAN - Person Sheet
NameEdith June LEVIN 219
Birth24 Oct 1923, New York, NY569
Death30 May 2019, Santa Fe, NM569 Age: 95
Burialaft 30 May 2019, 501 N Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, NM569
MemoSanta Fe National Cemetery; Plot: Section Col-2 Site C196
OccupationSocial Work at the Henry Street Settlement House (1950)554
FlagsMITTMAN-1
Obituaries
From Edith Levin Izenberg (1923-2019) - Find a Grave Memorial:569

Edith L. Izenberg, a longtime resident of Albuquerque, passed away peacefully on May 30, 2019, following a brief illness. Edith is survived by her two children, Brian and Janice, and her grandchildren, Hallie and Eric. Edith was born in New York City, one of three children to Irving and Lena Levin. She spent several years in Vermont and returned to New York City with her parents early in the Great Depression.

Edith became an accomplished pianist in New York and graduated from the City College of New York with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. After graduating from college, she began working as a scriptwriter for a major broadcasting service and then moved into advertising. Edith took up skiing, tennis, and golf as a young woman.

On a sunny golf course, she met her husband, Ivan, a golfer. The two married in February of 1950, and throughout their marriage, which lasted 64 years, both would find time together to tee up. Thanks to her husband’s facility with foreign languages, she found herself packing and leaving the New York metro area for his first tour as a Foreign Service Officer assigned to Bangkok, Thailand. Edith subsequently accompanied her husband to assignments in Tokyo, Japan; Vientiane, Laos; Hong Kong (BCC); and Sydney, Australia.

She met and got to know personally many of the greats of the twentieth century. As a child, she once recited poetry to Robert Frost. As a student, she studied under the great Psychology humanist Abraham Maslow. She met Edwin Reischauer, Harvard scholar and U.S. ambassador to Japan when her husband was assigned to USIS Tokyo as an adult. She met James Michener and his wife, exchanging Christmas cards for years. Later, when Ivan was the Control Officer for the installation of the first Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong, she was there, graciously entertaining Ambassador-Designate George H.W. Bush. Later, she danced with Ivan at his Inaugural ball. In Washington, D.C., she served as a docent at the National Gallery of Art for ten years, welcoming many art lovers to this excellent museum.

Upon retirement, Ivan and Edith established their longtime residence in the foothills of Northeast Albuquerque. Edith served as a docent for many years at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and was an avid bridge player.

Inscription
WIFE OF IZENBERG, IVAN
TEC 3 US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
Spouses
Birth20 Mar 1922, Paterson, NJ567
Death23 Apr 2014, Santa Fe, NM Age: 92
FatherBenjamin IZENBERG (1884-1951)
MotherIda WEINSTEIN (1884-1970)
Marriage4 Feb 1950, New York, NY554,570
Misc. Notes
From Feb 7, 1950, page 23 - The Herald-News at Newspapers.com:571

Edith Levine Married At Hotel Pierre

Becomes Bride Of Ivan Izenberg, NYU Instructor

The marriage of Miss Edith Levin, of the Bronx, N. Y., to Ivan Izenberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Izenberg, 170 Broadway, Passaic, took place Saturday evening at the Hotel Pierre, New York. Rabbi Sidney Kosofsky of Temple B’nai Zion, Bloomfield, performed the ceremony.

The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Levin, was attended by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Arthur Levin, of East Orange. James Izenberg, of Clifton, was the best man for his brother.

The bride wore a light beige lace afternoon dress with a linen tulle underskirt, a mink-hued maline-braided hat, and a shoulder-length veil.

Mrs. Izenberg is a Brooklyn College graduate who has done social work at the Henry Street Settlement House in New York and the Kingsbridge Veterans’ Hospital.

Her husband is an alumnus of New York University and did postgraduate work at Harvard University. He is on the engineering staff of WNJR, Newark radio station, and is an instructor in technical broadcasting at New York University.
ChildrenBrian Roy (1954-)
 Janice Lynn (1956-)
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