I guess you can say I knew Vicki all her life as she was my cousin. She was born 12 days after me but of course I don't remember that far back. I'm sure she was at all my early birthday parties and of course holiday dinners. In grade school we would have play days and by third or fourth grade we would ride our bikes to meet at the Fox for Saturday matinees. We would always take a sweater or jacket to hide under for the scary bits as we were both chickens. At the end of fourth grade I moved to Green Bay so play dates ended.
She was the middle child of three and had her brilliant sister Karen to live up to which put a bit of pressure on her but she was no slouch in that area either.
I think the last time I saw her was her wedding which was an intimate ceremony at her parents house officiated by her Rabbi brother in law. We think his name was Hans but the marriage lasted only six months. She had moved to Michigan and by the time she returned to Milwaukee I was in Montreal. She earned her living as an editor and ghost writer and at one point moved to Israel when she changed her first name to Sarah which was her middle name. She lived in Haifa and worked as an editor during her "Jewish period" as her niece refered to it. Older sister Karen and her family lived about an hour away. Her niece Rachel visited her often and said she was a good aunt. Israel is a hard country to live in and she returned to the US to live in New Mexico near her parents. She was about to embark on a new path and return to school to do further study of religion when her father found her dead in her apartment. She was only 47 and died on November 12 1993 of a stroke.
The autopsy showed she also had lung cancer and yes she was a heavy smoker. One month later her sister Karen died in Israel after a long battle with cancer. A tragic cloud seemed to hang over that family as not only did my aunt and uncle loose two daughters in a month but their son Dan also died in his forties of lung cancer. My poor uncle survived all his children.
Sheila, thank you for shedding light on Vicki's life and death. I really only remember her from Richards school, not much from high school. What tragedy for the family. RIP.
Sheila Tarnow (Aldoroty)
I guess you can say I knew Vicki all her life as she was my cousin. She was born 12 days after me but of course I don't remember that far back. I'm sure she was at all my early birthday parties and of course holiday dinners. In grade school we would have play days and by third or fourth grade we would ride our bikes to meet at the Fox for Saturday matinees. We would always take a sweater or jacket to hide under for the scary bits as we were both chickens. At the end of fourth grade I moved to Green Bay so play dates ended.
She was the middle child of three and had her brilliant sister Karen to live up to which put a bit of pressure on her but she was no slouch in that area either.
I think the last time I saw her was her wedding which was an intimate ceremony at her parents house officiated by her Rabbi brother in law. We think his name was Hans but the marriage lasted only six months. She had moved to Michigan and by the time she returned to Milwaukee I was in Montreal. She earned her living as an editor and ghost writer and at one point moved to Israel when she changed her first name to Sarah which was her middle name. She lived in Haifa and worked as an editor during her "Jewish period" as her niece refered to it. Older sister Karen and her family lived about an hour away. Her niece Rachel visited her often and said she was a good aunt. Israel is a hard country to live in and she returned to the US to live in New Mexico near her parents. She was about to embark on a new path and return to school to do further study of religion when her father found her dead in her apartment. She was only 47 and died on November 12 1993 of a stroke.
The autopsy showed she also had lung cancer and yes she was a heavy smoker. One month later her sister Karen died in Israel after a long battle with cancer. A tragic cloud seemed to hang over that family as not only did my aunt and uncle loose two daughters in a month but their son Dan also died in his forties of lung cancer. My poor uncle survived all his children.
Pam Dunlop (Becker)
Sheila, thank you for shedding light on Vicki's life and death. I really only remember her from Richards school, not much from high school. What tragedy for the family. RIP.