Son lives in West Windsor
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Ronnie Rose Shur Cohen died Friday at Stanford University Medical Center. She was 87.
Born in Detroit, she moved to Palo Alto in 2003.
Mrs. Cohen was a 1942 graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit majoring in education and library science. After graduation, she taught in the Detroit public school system.
After moving to Oak Park, Mich., in 1952, she was a founding member of the Friends of the Oak Park Library and was instrumental in establishing a public library in that community.
She taught Sunday school at Congregation Beth Shalom and organized Saturday programs both at the Oak Park Library and at Francis Scott Key Elementary School.
Mrs. Cohen’s husband of 46 years, Abraham, died in 1992. She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Marshall and Deborah Cohen of West Windsor, Ralph Cohen and Susan Million of Palo Alto, Calif., and Lawrence Cohen of Washington, D.C.; grandchildren Marlene of Cambridge, Mass., Jessica of Los Angeles, Michael of San Leandro Calif., and Alan of Boston; and sister Ethel of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Memorial services will be held 11:30 a.m. Monday at the Hebrew Memorial Chapel, 26640 Greenfield Road, Oak Park, Mich. Shiva will be at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home of her son, Marshall Cohen, in West Windsor.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association (www.alz.org) or by planting a tree in Israel (www.jnftrees.com).
