Miriam Marsha Metzger

Miriam Metzger passed away of natural causes on May 8, 2022. She was born in New York City on November 15, 1921. She received a B.A. in chemistry from Hunter College and, during World War II, worked at the U.S. Army Signal Corps Labs in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, where she met her husband, Sidney. They were happily married for 67 years, during which time they lived in New Jersey, Maryland, and Florida, and raised 3 children. When they lived in Maryland, Miriam worked briefly as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for the state of Maryland, after earning a Master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Maryland. At the same time, she was very active in the Montgomery County chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women, including serving as the chapter president. She continued to volunteer for as long as she could at various organizations, and through these roles developed a robust group of friends. When Sidney started his own consulting firm in the 1980s, Miriam managed his business operations, including teaching herself how to use a computer and do word processing. She remained an active user of email and computer skills nearly up to her 100th birthday. Her hobbies included bridge, reading, knitting, and embroidery. She and Sidney enjoyed traveling, and traveled extensively for his job and for pleasure across North America, Europe, East Asia, and Australia.

Miriam was devoted to her family – not only to her children, David, Sally, and Philip, but to her daughters-in-law, Carole Metzger and Lynn Metzger, her son-in-law, Zachary Fasman, her grandchildren, Jonathan, Benjamin, and Rebecca Fasman, Sarah (d. 1999), Diana, and Lily Metzger, her granddaughter-in-law, Alissa Fasman, her grandson-in-law, Manoli Strecker, and her great grandchildren, Leo and Zephyr Fasman and Isabel and Theo Strecker. She was also devoted to her nieces and nephews and their spouses and children. She was preceded in death by her adored and adoring husband, Sidney, her dear brother Norman and sister-in-law Elaine, and her beloved granddaughter, Sarah. Miriam always put others’ needs before her own to the point where, as she was dying, she wanted to make the process as easy as possible for her family, knowing how hard this was on family members. She leaves behind her example of a long life well-lived, a legacy of love of family, honesty, integrity, faith, community service, and the importance of education and doing one’s best, no matter the task. She will be missed by all who knew and loved her.