LIBBY MEDRICH

Long-time Larchmont resident Libby Medrich died at her home in Claremont, California, on March 13, 2006. She was just two weeks shy of her 97th birthday.

Born Libby Eisenberg in Hartford, Connecticut, on March 26, 1909, Mrs. Medrich lived in Larchmont from 1955 until moving to California to be near her children in 1993.

Libby Medrich was the daughter of Russian immigrants. She left home in the 1920s to live in Greenwich Village. She attended New York University and then became a copy writer for Young and Rubicon Advertising. Her position as a professional woman was unusual at the time.

She married Moe Medrich in 1938 and left the business world to raise a family. Their two children, Bryn (nee Wini) and Elliott, were born in 1942 and 1946; both graduated from Mamaroneck High School.

Libby Medrich spent much of her life pursuing creative endeavors, first as a concert pianist in training and later, during the second half of her life, as a dedicated sculptor. She turned a hobby into a vocation, creating a large body of work that was exhibited extensively. She was the subject of many one-person shows in Westchester and throughout the New York region. Her work was widely prized and is now found in nearly 150 collections around the world.

In Larchmont she was an active member of Larchmont Temple and the Mamaroneck Artists Guild.

Libby was blessed with good heath and a sound body and active mind. She continued her artistic work until just shortly before her death. She is survived by daughter Bryn and son-in-law Elliott Barkan of Claremont, CA; son Elliott, daughter-in-law Sharon, and granddaughter Lucy Medrich of Oakland, CA; grandsons Eric and Gabriel Hoffmann; three great-grandchildren and three step-grandchildren, and other relations and friends.

She was laid to rest on March 19, 2006 near her home in Claremont, California

Donations in memory of Libby Medrich may be made to the National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA. www.yiddishbookcenter.org

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