Anne B Adler

Anne B. Adler, born 1914, died on October 2, 2023. The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants (though her father was originally from Lithuanian), she grew up in Larchmont and New Rochelle, where her parents ran a bakery and deli, until it went under in the Great Depression. She dreamt of joining the Navy to see the world – but said she had always joked that she would wind up at the Brooklyn Navy Yard – but stayed home because she knew that her father depended on her to keep the books for his newspaper delivery business. She met her husband, John J. Adler, on a vacation in the Adirondacks, and they married in 1951 and lived in Stuyvesant Town. In 1955, the year after the birth of their daughter Marion, they moved to Baltimore, where their second daughter, Leslie, was born. After her husband’s death in 1962, Anne went to work at Social Security Administration, rising from file clerk to claims examiner, including an appointment to the “Congressional Unit,” where she responded to inquiries by Congressmen on behalf of constituents. She was enormously proud of her work and was so dedicated an employee that she received a merit award – a rarity in the federal government. When she finally retired, she pursued a goal that the Depression had cut short – a college degree. She enrolled at a local community college and then transferred to the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, earning a bachelor’s degree in history. She was also able to pursue her dream of travel – taking trips all over Europe, including a trip to Russia where she and some other tour goers got a bit lost when they ventured out on their own one evening and Anne was able to use the Yiddish she had learned at home as a girl to get directions from a German bus driver to find their way back. Anne also was an active member of Temple Emanuel in Baltimore County — which she and John had joined soon after its founding in the late 1950s — serving as President of the Sisterhood and as a member of the Temple board. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her two brothers, Leo and Gene. In addition to her daughters Marion (David McCormick) and Leslie, she is survived by her grandson, Michael McCormick (Kelsey Nelson), her great grandson, Carter, and her sister-in-law, Audrey Hayes Brinker.