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Edith Salomon Lenneberg was born October 11, 1923 in Hamburg, Germany. She died in Corrales, NM on November 13, 2005. At 13, Edith fled to the United States, where she married Dr. Eric H. Lenneberg and settled in Boston. Over her life, she was a music teacher and pioneer in nursing care for ostomy patients throughout the world. She was a founder of the Ostomy Association of Boston and the United Ostomy Association, the first of hundreds of similar self-help organizations. She went on to found the first Stoma Clinic at the New England Deaconess Hospital and was the first President of the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society. She moved to Corrales in 1978 and married Dr. Wilhelm Rosenblatt. Throughout her life, Edith worked tirelessly to improve the lives of others and to make a difference. She was outspoken about politics, poverty, world health and injustice. She encouraged others to be active by example. No one could meet her without being moved by her kindness and compassion, and she collected countless friends and loved ones. She inspired women to challenge themselves and everyone around them. She gave motherly love to any child, young or old, who needed it. But most of all, she changed everyone she met, maybe a little, probably a lot. She made you wonder "Am I all I could be? Am I who I should be?" Edith spent her final days among the many people she loved, including her daughter, Miriam Alejandro and her family: Jan, Erich, Stephanie and Arlene; her son, Roger Lenneberg and his family: Anna Kanwit, Evan and Thomas Lenneberg; her daughter, Susan Cornett and her family: Rob and Alex; her step-family, Toby, Eva, Walter, Victor, and Audrey Rosenblatt, Liz, Dennis and Toni Gresham; and her dear friends, Shirley and Albert Anderson. Please join her family at an open house remembering her life on December 18, 2005 between 1 and 5 p.m. Please call 503-222-3675 or e mail to Lenneberg@comcast.net for the location.
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