Doris Evelyn Falk was born July 15, 1929 in New York, NY, to Louis and Bessie (Fineberg) Falk and grew up in Jersey City, NJ. She graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and later received an MS degree in biology from New York University. For several years she worked as a medical abstractor and librarian in the pharmaceutical industry and briefly as a biology instructor at Sullivan County (NY) Community College. She then had a long career as a freelance writer and editor on publications for the medical profession and travelled widely, for business and pleasure. She moved to Connecticut in 1979. During the many years she lived in West Redding, she was a volunteer nature guide at the Nature Conservancy preserve in Weston and taught ESL with Literacy Volunteers. She moved to Heritage Village in Southbury in 2002. Predeceased by her sister, Lucille Foster, and niece, Maryann Diamond, she is survived by a niece, Sarajane Foster of Washington, DC, nephew Peter Diamond of New City, NY, and 2 grandnephews, Jonathan and Daniel Diamond.
