ROCKVILLE, MD… Beth Harber Lavine, 95, formerly of Ewing died Tuesday, September 24 in Rockville, Maryland. Born in New York City, she moved to Trenton in 1952 following her marriage to Samuel H. Lavine, D.D.S. (deceased in 1989) and later lived in Lawrence and Ewing Townships. She was the daughter of the late Leo and Rae Harber.
Mrs. Lavine graduated as valedictorian from Julia Richman High School, Manhattan. She graduated from Hunter College magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Arista member, and winner of the William C. Hess Memorial Prize and Helen Gray Cone Fellowship. She attained her master’s degree as a Resident Graduate Scholar at Bryn Mawr College.
In New York, Mrs. Lavine was on the staff of Seventeen Magazine for eight years, wrote for Foster Parents Plan for War Children and the World Broadcasting System and was a volunteer researcher for the American Jewish Committee. In Trenton she was community relations director of Helene Fuld Medical Center for five years, winning first prize in the first Annual Competition of the New Jersey Hospital Public Relations Association. Later she taught in the GED program of Mercer County Community College for 11 years, and then was a professional tutor in the college’s Learning Center.
For some years she was publicist for Opera Theater of New Jersey, and wrote for the fluoridation project and the migrant health program of New Jersey State Department of Health.
Mrs. Lavine was the author of a family history which is in a number of libraries, including New York Public Library, New Jersey State Library, and the libraries of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the American Jewish Historical Society, both in Manhattan.
She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Ted Lavine and Laura Winick of Rockville, Maryland, and granddaughters Simone and Emily; a sister and brother-in-law, Deborah Rose and Dr. Noel Rose of Brookline, Massachusetts; and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, and cousins.
Funeral services and burial are Sunday 11 AM, September 29, at People of Truth Cemetery, Pitman Avenue, Hamilton Township.