Bernard A. Rosenberg

Dr. Rosenberg founded The Stamford Medical Laboratory, a private clinical facility, prior to serving in Europe as a captain in the Army Medical Corp during World War II. His first wife, Lillian Ruth (Mannheimer) Rosenberg, operated the laboratory during his war service. He resumed operations of the lab at the end of the war and owned it for more than three decades.

Upon retirement in the mid-1970s, Dr. Rosenberg, who held a bachelor of science and a PhD in biochemistry from New York University, embarked on a number of other fulfilling careers. They included consulting corporations like Crystal Rock, teaching at Fairfield University and Norwalk Community College, and serving as assistant director of health in Darien until the age of 82.

Having grown up in New York City, where he graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School, Dr. Rosenberg first started coming to Stamford as a child to visit family. He fell in love with what was then more of a "small town" and decided to establish his business at a time when there were only about 30,000 city residents.

A childhood dream led Dr. Rosenberg and his wife Lillian to purchase a five-acre farm on Stamford’s Riverbank Road in 1962. There, on what they came to know and love as Hungry Hill Farm, the family raised sheep and a burro.

Dr. Rosenberg was an accomplished painter and enjoyed presenting finished portraits to his family and many friends who served as his subjects. He was also an avid reader of non-fiction and passionate about topics ranging from the Civil War to foreign affairs.

The son of the late Simon and Mary (Futterman) Rosenberg, Dr. Rosenberg was born January 29, 1918, in New York City, but he was the third of five generations of Rosenbergs to call Stamford home. He is predeceased by his first wife Lillian Rosenberg to whom he was married for 53 years, and his second wife Hinda (Gould) Rosenthal to whom he was married for seven years, as well as three sons, Curt John Rosenberg, Seth Rosenberg and Eric Rosenberg. He is survived by his daughter, Jan, and son-in-law Russell Potts of San Francisco, CA, and his son, Steven Charles, and daughter-in-law Annea Rosenberg of Stamford; his daughters-in-law Ann Marie (Rizzuti) Rosenberg of Newtown, CT, and Jane (Cahoon) Rosenberg, of Cleveland Heights, OH, as well as his grandchildren: Erin Potts of San Francisco, CA; Noah, Dena and Joseph Rosenberg of Brooklyn, NY; Amanda Rosenberg of Newtown, CT; and Eli Rosenberg of Cleveland, Heights, OH. He also is survived by two great-grandsons, Ian Voss Potts and Bernard Voss Potts both of San Francisco.

A private burial will be held at Beth El Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Richard L. Rosenthal Hospice, in Stamford.