Miriam Geri Rosen
Born In: Philadelphia
Born: October 9th, 1930
Passed on: July 19th, 2014
Miriam Geri Rosen, known for most of her life as Geri, died at her daughter's home in Olympia, Washington on July 19, 2014.
Born to Susan (Hurwitch) Rosen and Benjamin Rosen in Philadelphia on Oct. 9, 1930, she was raised in New York City and earned her Bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College in 1952 and Master's degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1953.
She moved to the Washington DC area in 1957 and her winter residence has been in the Capitol Hill neighorhood of Washington since 1971.
She and her husband first came to Cape Breton in the early 1970s and purchased a house in White Point in Victoria County which they replaced in the early 1990s. After her second retirement in 1991, Geri worked with her Cape Breton neighbours to build the White Point home. The agreement was sealed by a simple handshake.
Geri often referred to the extraordinary kindness of those neighbours, the late Pearl and Kelson Briand, their late son Winston and his wife Virginia, and Kelson's grandson, Darren. Since her husband was employed until 2012, Geri supervised the running of the White Point house by herself and treasured the help, support, and friendship of Bernie and Joanne Vassallo, Vincent Briand, and Joe Doucette.
During her many summers in White Point, she also became good friends with the late Michaela Anderson and her husband Harry, Dave and Lynn Ghesquiere, Tim and Jane Radford, and Johanna Humphrey and Storrs Olson.
Geri worked for U.S. Senator William Proxmire from 1958 to 1981 and as a Project Administrator for the Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry Research Team at George Washington University Medical School from 1981 to 1991.
She is survived by her husband, Tom Kuchenberg, three children, Deborah of Seattle, Washington, Ellen of Olympia, Washington, and Joshua of Alexandria, Virginia, and four grandchildren.
She is deeply missed.
