Jane Blumberg Goldberg
Jane Blumberg Goldberg, age 91, died peacefully at her home in San Mateo on Dec. 23, 2014. Originally from the Midwest, she resided in the Bay Area for almost 60 years. She was a founding member and active participant in a wide variety of nonprofit and community organizations, supporting projects focused on health, education, women’s rights, Jewish life and the environment.
Jane was known for her quick wit, keen intellect, attention to detail, creative and gracious entertaining and everlasting supply of M&M’s. She will be greatly missed and not easily forgotten by her family, friends, and those individuals whose lives she touched.
She was predeceased by her loving husbands, Theodore Blumberg and Rear Adm. Herschel J. Goldberg. She is survived by her children, Peggy Kostick (Neil) of Berkeley, Tom Blumberg (Maggie) of Hillsborough, and Bonnie Marantette (Tom) of Saratoga, and six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
A celebration of her life will be held in early spring. Memorial donations may be made, as was her request, “to an organization that has meaning to you.”
Dr. Ira L. Karp
Feb. 18, 1928–Dec. 12, 2014
In Palo Alto, California, at age 86 after a short, catastrophic illness. Beloved husband of Dr. Laenu Adelilah Greenberg Karp for 57 years until her death in 2012; loving father of Rabbi R. Reuel Karpov, Ph.D., and Yonah Karp (Harold Bobroff); adoring grandfather of Hannah Ruth Karp Bobroff, Abraham Raphael Karp Bobroff, and Nora Rayna Karp Bobroff; dear brother of the late Mayor David Solomon Karp of San Leandro, California.
Ira Karp was originally from Bronx, N.Y. He was a lifelong learner, first at the elite Townsend Harris prep school in New York, eventually studying at Cal Berkeley and running track, and later earning a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Washington, as well as an additional M.S.E.E. from Purdue University a decade later. His career alternated periods of university professorships, notably at Tuskegee Institute and Virginia Commonwealth University, and industry work in physics, mathematics and computer science, including Boeing Aerospace, AFRRI and GTE.
In later life, Ira returned to his earlier love of running, becoming a life-extension advocate and guru. At 85, he won all three statewide running competitions in California’s Senior Games in Pasadena, and an article featuring his success was in the San Jose Mercury News. He and Laenu were members of Kol Emeth in Palo Alto, and were regular daily minyan participants for many years.
Ira ran his final race Nov. 16, less than a month before he died.
Services were held at Eden Memorial Park, Mission Hills, Calif. He is buried next to his beloved Laenu, and near his in-laws, Esther Bernice Greenberg and Shuey Isadore Greenberg.
Memorial donations to Congregation Kol Emeth, Palo Alto, California, preferred. Inquiries and memories to [email protected].
Sinai Memorial Chapel
(415) 921-3636
Augusta (Gusti) H. Wiener
Augusta (Gusti) H. Wiener passed away peacefully on Dec. 30, 2014 in San Mateo, California. Born in 1919, she was raised in Potsdam, Germany, until at age 17 the rise of the Nazi regime caused her to emigrate.
In 1937 she and her family made San Francisco their home. Gusti loved her new city, where she attended Lowell High School and business school. In 1949 she married the love of her life, Herbert Wiener, who predeceased her in 1998. After moving to the Peninsula, she resumed her education, graduating from College of San Mateo in 1984. All her adult life she volunteered in libraries, school districts and food pantries.
Gusti is survived by her children, Sanford Statner and Debra Wiener Hanavan (Thomas), her granddaughter, Caitlin Hanavan, her brother-in-law, Stanley Wiener (Carolyn), and loving nieces and nephews.
A memorial service celebrating her life will be held at the Peninsula Regent, 1 Baldwin Ave., San Mateo on Sunday, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. Donations may be made to Mission Hospice, 1670 S. Amphlett Blvd., San Mateo, CA 94402.