Milwaukee native Helen Weber (nee Sernovitz) died of lymphoma in Seattle on April 17. She was 95.
Weber graduated from North Division High School in 1930 and attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She worked as a freelance writer and creative writing teacher for many years.
Weber published two books, “Summer Mockery” in 1986 and “Holocaust Mosaic” in 2006, at the age of 93. The Council for Wisconsin Writers hailed the former as “an outstanding creative achievement in the field of professional writing.” It also earned Weber an “Award of Merit for Distinguished Service to History” from the Wisconsin Historical Society, her family stated.
“She was absolutely dedicated to her work,” said her daughter, Joan (Connell) Giacomini of Seattle, noting that Weber kept writing until her death.
“Helen was a strong advocate of civil rights and women’s rights and was a role model and an inspiration to her family and friends,” her family said in a statement. Her interests also included music, theater and all of the arts, politics and history, they said.
Weber’s husband, the late Joseph Weber, was an army physician and the family lived in a number of different locations in the U.S. and Mexico. Joseph Weber died in 1984. They were members of Beth El Ner Tamid Synagogue.
Weber moved to Seattle in the late 1980s to be closer to her family. She was preceded in death by brother Morty Sernovitz and sister Mabel Pizer.
She is further survived by daughters Elizabeth (Michael) Black of Seattle and Marjorie (Rolando) Macasaet of Viroqua; son Ronald (Barbara) Weber of Hartland; brothers Ted and Burt Sernovitz of Naples, Fla.; sisters Edith Gross and Evelyn Yondavitz of Milwaukee, Ruth Pardo of Sacramento, Calif., and Elaine (George) Zimbel of Montreal; 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Burial was in Briar, Wash. The family appreciates memorial contributions to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC, 20024-2126.
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