Family File for David Saul MITTMAN - Person Sheet
NameDenese Nancy BERG 850
Birth14 Dec 1926, Baltimore, MD1682
Birth14 Dec 1927, Maryland, USA
Death13 Jul 2022, West Hartford, CT1682 Age: 95
Burialaft 13 Jul 2022, 51 Jackson St, Avon, CT1682
MemoBeth El Temple Cemetery
OccupationTherapeutic Counselor (1979)
FlagsMITTMAN-1
Obituaries
From
https://commons.trincoll.edu/reporter/files/2023/02/Obituaries-Winter2023.pdf:
1973 Denese B. Mann, 95, of West Hartford, Connecticut, died on July 13, 2022.
Mann interrupted her studies at Johns Hopkins University when she wed and later came to Trinity to earn a B.A. in psychology. She went on to earn a master’s degree in pastoral counseling from Saint Joseph College and to practice family therapy.
Mann is survived by her husband of 74 years, Norman; children Karen Mann, Roselle Mann, Cynthia Mann (Brian Acker), and Jonathan Mann (Michal); eight grandchildren; and sisters-in-law Elayne and Sharon Berg. She was predeceased by brothers Gerald “Buzz” Berg and Elliott Berg and brother-in-law Sheldon Mann.
From
Denese Berg Mann (1926-2022) - Find a Grave Memorial:
1682Denese Berg Mann of West Hartford, CT, died peacefully at home on July 13, 2022, surrounded by family and caregivers. She was 95 and had just celebrated 74 years of marriage to her beloved husband, Norman. Denese was born on Dec. 14, 1926, in Baltimore, MD, the eldest child of Samuel and F. Jeanette Berg. She had two brothers, Gerald “Buzz” Berg and Elliott M. Berg, who predeceased her.
Denese is survived by her husband, Norman, four children, and eight grandchildren. She also leaves two sisters-in-law, beloved nieces and nephews, and was predeceased by brother-in-law, Sheldon Mann.
Denese began her university studies at Johns Hopkins, which she interrupted to marry Norman, a medical resident at Sinai Hospital. They moved to Hartford so he could establish a practice and they could start a family. Denese returned to school in her 40s to finish her undergraduate education in psychology at Trinity College, where she graduated in 1974. She obtained a master’s degree in pastoral counseling at St. Joseph College and practiced family therapy.
Denese was active in and committed to myriad Jewish, women’s, and other civic and community organizations. She was strong-minded and vocal on behalf of the causes she cared about.
She loved being a literacy tutor for kindergarteners at the Noah Webster School in Hartford. In her earlier years, she was an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami in 1972. She was a delegate for the National Council of Jewish Women to the first International Women’s Conference in Mexico City in 1975. A proud Jewish feminist, she attended the first Jewish Feminism conference in New York in 1972 and published a monograph entitled “The Woman in Judaism” in 1979.
~ Excerpt from obituary published by Hartford Courant on July 14, 2022.
Spouses
Birth8 Apr 1921, Hartford, CT1683
Death14 Sep 20221683 Age: 101