Marilyn (Wiener) Siegel |
| Posted 2016-10-24 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona Wednesday, October 12, 2016, page 7a Marilyn Siegel was born June 9, 1931, in Brooklyn, New York, the oldest of three children, to Harry and Anna Wiener. Known to all as Mimi, she is survived by her brother, Gene; her children, Heidi, Jeffrey, Eric, and David; plus 10 grandchildren. In her early 20s, not long after the end of WWII, Mimi met Henry Siegel at Brickman’s hotel in the Catskill Mountains of New York. They married a year later and settled in Brooklyn, starting a family of four children. The family moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 1967 to help Mimi overcome painful and potentially crippling arthritis exacerbated by the humid climate of New York City. For Mimi, this was a return to a place of her youth where she spent a couple of years in the 1930s living in Tucson with her grandparents, in the aftermath of the Great Depression. Unlike her parents, Marilyn was born in the U.S., a first generation American. She saw the world through different eyes than her parents, who emigrated from the Ukraine in the early 20th century. She was known as being particularly adventurous, including after-school excursions with her friends to Coney Island and traveling with her uncle on his yacht in the 1940s from New York City to Miami, Florida. Marilyn and Henry became world travelers following his retirement with trips to Europe, Asia, Canada, Alaska, and the Tropics. When not traveling, they were avid sports fans of the University of Arizona rarely missing a home football or basketball game. She was also a lifelong mahjong player beginning to play as a teenager and teaching friends in Prescott in her 80s. Please log on to www.ruffnerwakelin.com to sign Marilyn’s guestbook and share a memory with the family. Information provided by survivors. |
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