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Laura Handloff Friedenberg
1912 - 2008
Laura Handloff Friedenberg, mother of Steamboat Springs residents Susan and Stuart Handloff, died April 24, 2008, just four weeks before her 96th birthday, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Born in Hinsdale, Ill., on May 19, 1912, she was the daughter of Clara and Harry Lieberman of Hinsdale. She attended public school in Hinsdale and, in 1933, graduated from the University of Chicago. Two years later, she married Herman Handloff, whom she had met in Atlantic City, N.J.
The Handloffs resided in Newark until 1962, when Mrs. Handloff moved to Wilmington following the death of her spouse. The Handloff family was well-known in Newark, and on Laura’s 95th birthday in 2007, Mayor Vanc Funk III issued a proclamation naming May 19 as “Laura Handloff Friedenberg Day.”
In 1979, after marrying Melvin Friedenberg of Baltimore, she moved to Palm Beach, Fla., where she lived until her death.
Ms. Handloff was a devoted contract bridge player well into her 90s and played golf into her 70s. In the 1950s she was at various times president of the Temple Beth Emeth (Wilmington) Sisterhood and Hadassah Women’s Group. Although not a member, she and Herman were donors to Temple Beth El of Newark, Del. She and Herman were also charter members of Brandywine Country Club in Wilmington, Del. While a Wilmington resident, she was a docent at the DuPont Company’s Hagley Museum.
She is survived by a daughter, Susan Handloff of Steamboat Springs; sons Robert Handloff of Thompson, Pa., and Stuart Handloff of Steamboat; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Donations in her memory are being accepted by Congregation Har Mishpacha, P.O. Box 774362, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477. Please mention that your donation is in memory of Laura Handloff.
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