Dorothy Naveen Friedman

Born March 30,1930 in Wilkes-Barre, PA she was the youngest of six children.

Dorothy married Sidney Friedman in 1954 and lived most of her life in Port Chester, NY. Sid predeceased her in 1990. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Marilyn and Stuart Adelberg of Stamford, (formerly of Old Greenwich) and her grandson Jesse Adelberg and his fiancée, Julia Monaco of Denver, CO.

Dorothy received her BA degree in journalism from Penn State in 1952 and immediately moved to NYC to work at J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in the media research department. After getting married and moving to Port Chester she worked as a reporter at The Daily Item newspaper and then as the Arts Editor at the Greenwich Time (from 1974 to her retirement in 2001). While at the Greenwich Time she wrote and edited four arts pages a week, penned a weekly arts column, reviewed local and regional theater, and interviewed many famous personalities in the performing arts. Dorothy was a member of Congregation Kneses Tifereth Israel in Port Chester for over 70 years and served on their Board of Directors. She was an active, longtime volunteer at a soup kitchen in Port Chester, at Curtain Call in Stamford, at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich and a reading tutor at an elementary school in Rye Brook, NY. She was honored as volunteer of the year by several of these organizations for her dedicated work. Her main focus was with Hadassah (the women’s Zionist organization) in Port Chester, where she was a past-president, life member, and co-chaired many of their annual donor luncheons. She wrote and edited the chapter’s monthly bulletin and was their historian for over 60 years. She was honored by the local and regional Hadassah groups numerous times.

Dorothy was an avid traveler, a voracious reader who belonged to several book clubs, loved the theater, symphony, movies and above all spending time with her family (especially her grandson) and good friends.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, September 29th at 10:00 a.m. at Leo P. Gallagher & Son Funeral Home, 2900 Summer Street, Stamford, CT with interment immediately following at Riversville Cemetery, 99 Memory Lane, Glenville, CT.

Private shiva will be held. In lieu of food/flowers, donations can be made to Hadassah, www.hadassah.org/donate