Marianne Heineberg Rosthal

Services will be held at the Beth David Synagogue, 804 WInview Drive, at 12 noon, Monday, January 21st with Rabbi Eliezer Havivi officiating. Interment will follow at the Hebrew Cemetery on Vanstory Street.

Marianne was born February 2, 1925 in Berlin, Germany to Ernest Heineberg and Anita Seligman. She and her family fled from Nazi oppression to London, England when she was 13 years of age. Some years later while England was a war, she was engaged by the British Foreign Office to work at Bletchley Park, the famous site of the Enigma coding machine; she was occupied in beaming broadcasts to Germany in the German language over the popular networks. She subsequently worked for the Marshall Plan (ECA or Economic Cooperation Administration) in Paris where she met and married her husband Robert.

The couple arrived in the U.S. in June of 1953. Marianne worked for the Ford Foundation in NYC, and when she and her husband went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and to the university, she worked for the Mental Health Research Institute.

Marianne was a linguist, fluent in French, English, and her native tongue German. When she and Robert arrived in Greensboro and he began teaching at UNCG, then known as the Women’s College, she began to teach modern languages at Bennett College eight years before she became assistant to the Vice-President at Ciba-Geigy, (Now Novartis), prior to her retirement. She and her husband traveled extensively in Europe and Asia with frequent trips to London where her family lived, and to Paris where they had previously resided.

Marianne is survived by her husband Robert and son Andrew, and two grandchildren, Carly and Nicholas.