Ruth Bierman Linnick

Born in the Bronx in May 1939 to Irving and Lillian Bierman, Ruth was valedictorian of her class at the Bronx High School of Science, and returned there to teach three years later, after earning an undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cornell University. She married the late Stuart Linnick in 1960. Together they raised their children Mitchell and Cindy, first in White Plains and later in Los Angeles.

A dedicated teacher, Ruth worked in a variety of educational capacities throughout her life, many of a volunteer nature, including work with literacy programs, work as a docent at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and experience as an oral history interviewer, including work with Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah project. She was also very active with the Los Angeles Jewish Family Service. Additionally, Ruth was an experienced and enthusiastic world traveler, often taking multiple extended trips in a year, continuing to amaze her family and friends by her endless appetite to visit new places around the globe.

Family meant everything to Ruth. She cherished and was proud of her children who stayed in close touch with her (and each other), graduated from prestigious universities, and found love and created families of their own. The travels that Ruth probably enjoyed most, were those to Sherman Oaks, Venice, and Carlsbad, California or, more recently, to New York City. There, she would spend time with her children, Mitch and Cindy, and enjoy the love of and bonds with her four strong, beautiful, and intelligent grandchildren: Spencer, Brooke, Isaiah and Sadie. Together they would play games, share holidays, have sleepovers, take excursions, make pudding and enjoy dark chocolate treats. What a beloved grandma Ruth was.

She is survived by her children Mitch Linnick (Erica Teasley) and Cindy Goldstein (Todd), her grandchildren Spencer and Brooke Goldstein and Isaiah and Sadie Linnick, her brother Charles Bierman and sister-in-law Marjorie Schlosberg. She was preceded in death by her loving husband Stuart who passed away in 1993, her sister Florence (Flo) Starr, and her parents.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in her memory to Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles at www.jfsla.org

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