Family File for David Saul MITTMAN - Person Sheet
Family File for David Saul MITTMAN - Person Sheet
Obituaries
From 3 Jun 2019, B5 - The Atlanta Constitution at Newspapers.com:2524
SENCER, Jane
Jane Potter Blood Sencer died peacefully on Thursday, May 2, 2019, in the company of her family. She was born in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1923, and during the Great Depression she spent part of her childhood in Boston and Western New York State. She graduated from Belmont High School in Belmont, MA, then attended Radcliffe College and graduated with a degree in biochemistry in 1945. After WWIl, she moved to Ann Arbor and worked at the University of Michigan Hospital, where she met her husband, David Sencer. They spent much of the next 60 years together in Atlanta.
Though she was a brilliant woman who came of age when society did not encourage women to pursue professional or scientific careers, she retained her curiosity and incisive intelligence throughout her life. She believed in the importance of education and earned a Masters in Library Sciences from Emory University. She then helped to create the medical library at Northside Hospital.
Throughout her life, she was knowledgeable and opinionated about politics and the future of our society. She has lived 95 years and experienced more than a third of our country’s history. Defying her father, she cast her first vote for Franklin Roosevelt at age 21. Having been born only three years after women were granted the right, she was proud to cast her last vote at age 93 for a woman candidate for president, Hillary Clinton.
Above all, she loved and was devoted to her family, which in addition to her husband, included two brothers, many nieces and nephews, her three children, Susan (David Mura), Ann (Steve Cullen) and Steve (Conner Ball), and their children, Samantha Sencer-Mura, Nikko Sencer-Mura, Rachel Jane Sencer Gundaker, Tomo Sencer-Mura, Isaac Sencer and Jacok Sencer, and step grandaughter Gina Cullen. She took satisfaction in tracking down facts about her ancestors, but most of all, enjoyed the present. Annual family gatherings at the seashore were her favorite times, whether on Cape Ann in her native Massachusetts or at Fripp Island in South Carolina.
A celebration of her lite will occur at 11 am on June 8, at the Miller Ward Alumni House at Emory University, luncheon to follow. In lieu of flowers, the family invites you to contribute to the David J. Sencer Scholarship Fund at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. A. S. Turner and Sons Funeral Home and Crematory.
SENCER, Jane
Jane Potter Blood Sencer died peacefully on Thursday, May 2, 2019, in the company of her family. She was born in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1923, and during the Great Depression she spent part of her childhood in Boston and Western New York State. She graduated from Belmont High School in Belmont, MA, then attended Radcliffe College and graduated with a degree in biochemistry in 1945. After WWIl, she moved to Ann Arbor and worked at the University of Michigan Hospital, where she met her husband, David Sencer. They spent much of the next 60 years together in Atlanta.
Though she was a brilliant woman who came of age when society did not encourage women to pursue professional or scientific careers, she retained her curiosity and incisive intelligence throughout her life. She believed in the importance of education and earned a Masters in Library Sciences from Emory University. She then helped to create the medical library at Northside Hospital.
Throughout her life, she was knowledgeable and opinionated about politics and the future of our society. She has lived 95 years and experienced more than a third of our country’s history. Defying her father, she cast her first vote for Franklin Roosevelt at age 21. Having been born only three years after women were granted the right, she was proud to cast her last vote at age 93 for a woman candidate for president, Hillary Clinton.
Above all, she loved and was devoted to her family, which in addition to her husband, included two brothers, many nieces and nephews, her three children, Susan (David Mura), Ann (Steve Cullen) and Steve (Conner Ball), and their children, Samantha Sencer-Mura, Nikko Sencer-Mura, Rachel Jane Sencer Gundaker, Tomo Sencer-Mura, Isaac Sencer and Jacok Sencer, and step grandaughter Gina Cullen. She took satisfaction in tracking down facts about her ancestors, but most of all, enjoyed the present. Annual family gatherings at the seashore were her favorite times, whether on Cape Ann in her native Massachusetts or at Fripp Island in South Carolina.
A celebration of her lite will occur at 11 am on June 8, at the Miller Ward Alumni House at Emory University, luncheon to follow. In lieu of flowers, the family invites you to contribute to the David J. Sencer Scholarship Fund at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. A. S. Turner and Sons Funeral Home and Crematory.
Spouses
Birth10 Nov 1924, Grand Rapids, MI
Death2 May 2011, Atlanta, GA2523 Age: 86
FatherMartin Judson SENCER (1887-1929)
MotherHelen FURNISS (1896-1999)
Marriage25 Aug 1951, 365 Belmont St, Belmont, MA2525
Misc. Notes
From 25 Aug 1951, 9 - The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com:2525
SOCIETY: Jane Potter Blood Weds David J. Sencer Today
By MARJORIE W. SHERMAN
Guests from Michigan and New York are in Boston this weekend for the wedding of Miss Jane Potter Blood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayland Potter Blood of Belmont, to David Judson Sencer, son of Mrs. Martin Judson Sencer of Grand Rapids, Mich. The ceremony occurs today in Payson Park Church in Belmont, with Rev. John Fitzsimmons officiating at four o'clock.
The bride, given in marriage by her father, is wearing a colonial gown of white organza and lace, with a matching lace cap and a fingertip veil. Her flowers are white roses and stephanotis.
Miss Joan Lauer of Ann Arbor is the bride’s only attendant, and she is wearing a gown of ice blue satin, and her flowers are strawberry gladioli.
F. Bourne Upham of Tarrytown, N. Y., is the best man, and the ushers include George and Wayland F. Blood, brothers of the bride, William Hatton, and Paul Kempter.
The bride graduated from Radcliffe College. Mr. Sencer graduated from Wesleyan University in Conn., the University of Mississippi, and the University of Michigan, where he is now completing his studies at the Medical School.
After their wedding trip to Canada, Mr. and Mrs. Sencer will live at 521 Walnut St., in Ann Arbor, Mich.
SOCIETY: Jane Potter Blood Weds David J. Sencer Today
By MARJORIE W. SHERMAN
Guests from Michigan and New York are in Boston this weekend for the wedding of Miss Jane Potter Blood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayland Potter Blood of Belmont, to David Judson Sencer, son of Mrs. Martin Judson Sencer of Grand Rapids, Mich. The ceremony occurs today in Payson Park Church in Belmont, with Rev. John Fitzsimmons officiating at four o'clock.
The bride, given in marriage by her father, is wearing a colonial gown of white organza and lace, with a matching lace cap and a fingertip veil. Her flowers are white roses and stephanotis.
Miss Joan Lauer of Ann Arbor is the bride’s only attendant, and she is wearing a gown of ice blue satin, and her flowers are strawberry gladioli.
F. Bourne Upham of Tarrytown, N. Y., is the best man, and the ushers include George and Wayland F. Blood, brothers of the bride, William Hatton, and Paul Kempter.
The bride graduated from Radcliffe College. Mr. Sencer graduated from Wesleyan University in Conn., the University of Mississippi, and the University of Michigan, where he is now completing his studies at the Medical School.
After their wedding trip to Canada, Mr. and Mrs. Sencer will live at 521 Walnut St., in Ann Arbor, Mich.