Peggy Broder

Peggy Fisher Broder, wife , mother, teacher, scholar, died Sunday June 10 after a long illness. She was 86. Dr. Broder earned her PhD in English literature at Case Western Reserve University and taught for more than three decades at Cleveland State University. In addition to her classroom duties, she served as the university's director of composition and supervisor of the writing center. She was an expert in Irish literature and published several articles on Irish poets and playwrights in various journals. Her doctoral thesis was on the poetry of W.B.Yeats. Dr. Broder was born in Pontiac, Michigan on June 21, 1925, and attended the University of Michigan, where she received the Hopwood Award, the top undergraduate writing prize. While at Michigan, she met her future husband, Harry Meyers Broder of Detroit. Harry Broder, a professor of history and administrator at Case Western Reserve, died in 1989. Loving mother of Douglas (Rebecca Northey) of New York, NY; Elizabeth (Joel) Penoyar of South Bend, WA; John (Karolyn Wallace) of Chevy Chase, MD; Emily Frazier of Raymond, WA; and Eric (Barbara Mooney) of Cleveland, OH. Dear sister of Mary (James) Stelt of Grand Rapids, MI. Devoted grandmother of 9 and great grandmother of 2. Services will be held Sunday, June 17, at 11A.M. at the BERKOWITZ-KUMIN-BOOKATZ MEMORIAL CHAPEL 1985 S.Taylor Rd. Cleveland Heights, OH. Interment Mayfield Cemetery. Family will receive friends at the Intercontinental Hotel at the Cleveland Clinic 9801 Carnegie Ave. Cleveland FOLLOWING SERVICES ON SUNDAY. In lieu of flowers friends who wish may contribute to the educational charity of choice.