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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
IN MEMORY OF ROSLYN (LYNNE) HOTLZMAN NIERENBERG
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HON. JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER
of washington
in the house of representatives
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER. Madam Speaker, Roslyn (Lynne) Holtzman
Nierenberg died on August 25, 2020 after a long decline. She and her
identical twin sister Sara (Sue) were born at home 2 months early on
November 18, 1928. Dr. Richardson, who delivered them, visited daily
for months until he was sure they would survive. Their father, Aaron
Holtzman, came to America from Belarus in 1920. Their mother, Gertrude
Lemonik Holtzman, was born on the lower East side. Her parents were
from Ukraine. Lynne and Sue's parents initially had a general store in
Norwood, NJ. They later had a men's shop in Bergenfield, NJ. Lynne and
Sue went to the public schools in Bergenfield, NJ. They have two
surviving younger sisters, Myra (Mikey) and Carol Ann (Candy), and one
sister Cynthia, who died in infancy. Lynne and Sue graduated from New
Jersey College for Women (NJC) at Rutgers University in New Brunswick,
NJ in 1950. (NJC later became Douglass College.)
Lynne met Theodore (Ted) Nierenberg in the summer of 1947 when they
were counselors at Lakeside Pines, a girls' sleep away camp. This was
after he served as an officer in the Navy in the South Pacific in World
War II. They married in 1950 after Lynne graduated from college. They
lived in Queens, NY initially, while Lynne did editorial work and Ted
worked in the insurance industry. They bought their first house in
Teaneck, NJ shortly before their first child, David, was born in 1953.
They moved to a second house in Teaneck in 1960 before their fourth
child was born. Lynne spent many busy years raising four children,
being a member of Temple Emeth, being an active member of many PTA's,
and doing volunteer work at Englewood Hospital. She was a wonderful
mother. She encouraged her children to read, study music, get involved
in extracurricular activities, and do volunteer work.
Lynne had always wanted to be a nurse. In 1968, the first year that
Englewood Hospital admitted older students, Lynne started nursing
school. She graduated two years later, first in her class. Lynne
initially worked as a psychiatric nurse in the inpatient psychiatric
unit at Englewood Hospital. She then worked at an outpatient mental
health center in Dumont, now called Vantage Mental Health Care. She
then taught psychiatric nursing at Holy Name School of Nursing. While
at Holy Name, she earned a masters degree in counseling. She then
became the psychiatric nursing supervisor at Englewood Hospital. (The
job also entailed doing psychiatric continuing education for the
nursing staff and serving as a liaison when patients with psychiatric
problems needed to be hospitalized on the medical or surgical floors.)
Lynne briefly worked in psychiatric medication research at Montefiore
Hospital in the Bronx, NY. Lynne then worked at the outpatient mental
health center at Miseracordia Hospital (now Our Lady of Mercy), in the
Bronx, NY. She functioned there like a psychiatric nurse-practitioner.
This was her most challenging and satisfying job because it pulled
together all of her skills. She retired in 1993.
Lynne also did volunteer work. For about 13 years, she ran a support
group through the American Cancer Society's Cancer Adjustment Program.
She later ran the Survivors after Suicide support group for about 13
years at Vantage Mental Health Care. She also ran a support group for
women who had premature babies.
She was the devoted mother of David Nierenberg (married to Patricia)
of Camas, Washington; Susan Nierenberg (married to Peter Goldman) of
Teaneck; Amy Knitzer (married to Jonathan Perlstein) of Montclair, NJ;
and Ellen Nierenberg, currently living in Tromso, Norway. She LOVED
being a grandmother to: David and Patricia's children: Elodie, Jacob,
and Albanie; Susan and Peter's daughter Emily; Amy and Jonathan's sons
Dan and Zack; and Ellen and Jens' children: Johanne, Solveig, and
Daniel.
Unfortunately, Lynne developed Alzheimer's Disease. After Ted had a
stroke in 2009, Lynne and Ted moved in 2010 into Van Dyk Park Place, an
assisted living facility in Hawthorne, NJ. Ted died in 2011.
Lynne is survived and missed by: her sisters Mikey and Candy, her
children David, Susan, Amy, and Ellen, her 9 grandchildren, and 14
nieces and nephews.
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