Edith Arrick Rothenberg Dies at 101 in Florida as Reader Obituary Series Recalls 4 Lives
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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 13
Edith Arrick Rothenberg Dies at 101 in Florida as Reader Obituary Series Recalls 4 Lives
1 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 13
Summary
July 31 marked the death of Edith Arrick Rothenberg, 101, in Wellington, Florida, where her granddaughter remembered her as a resilient widow, single mother and lifelong survivor.
100-plus years of hardship shaped that portrait: Rothenberg was the daughter of immigrants, lived through the Depression, lost her husband early and last year mourned her daughter Amy's death from cancer.
1993 words quoted in the tribute captured her outlook: “Life is what you make it” and “You have to learn to be a survivor.”
The latest installment of the reader-submitted “What We Remember” series also honored Pauline Liss, 98, Tom Badal, 71, and Shaukat Sultan, 83, through family-written remembrances.
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