Former Milwaukeean Bernice Sigman (nee Rotter) died in California on March 28. She was 90.
A 1936 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she interned as a dietician at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital.
She returned to Milwaukee for several years in the late 1930s where she directed the Milwaukee Jewish Children’s Home on N. 50th St. In 1945, she and husband David Sigman moved to New York, where they remained for about seven years, according to her brother Merton (Dorothy) Rotter of Mequon.
The family returned to Milwaukee once again and when her children grew older she returned to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she earned a master’s degree in education.
In the 1960s and 1970s, she taught science at John Marshall High School in Milwaukee. Upon her retirement in the late 1970s, she and her husband relocated to Laguna Hills, Calif.
She was preceded in death by her husband and a grandson. In addition to brother Merton Rotter, she is survived by son Richard (Jeanne) Sigman of Winfield, Ill.; daughter Barbara (Jerome) Subeck of LaHabra, Calif; sister Lillian (the late Byron) Zolin of Boston; brothers Roy (Muriel) Rotter of Madison and Emanuel (the late Sandra) Rotter of Fox Point and two grandsons.
A memorial service was held at Temple Judea in Laguna Woods, Calif., April 10.
The family would appreciate contributions to the Alzheimer’s Association.
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