Born in Niles, OH, Warren’s family moved to Cleveland when he was 11, where he would go on to make dozens of lifelong friends and become a proud alumnus of Cleveland Heights High School. A star athlete, Warren was a standout catcher on his high school baseball team, and continued to play at Ohio University and the University of Michigan. Warren eventually earned a master's degree from NYU in City Planning.
He met the love of his life Deborah Goldweber in the winter of 1959. They married a year later, and eventually settled in Colombia, MD, where they raised their children Anthony and Danit. Warren was drawn to this new planned community which was purposefully designed to be integrated and diverse, at a time before the Fair Housing Act of 1968 made it illegal to discriminate in housing based on race, color, national origin or religion.
Passionate about his work, Warren was inspired to a life of civil service to make a difference. He worked for the Federal Government for most of his career as a planner for the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, and finally Energy. Highlights included work on resettling residents after the Johnstown, PA, flood in 1977 and making the country's plutonium production plants safer.
Warren loved to exercise, walk and hike. He participated in many sporting activities throughout his life and was always active. He made many friends at each stop along his journey. His Heights High friends held a special place in his heart, and he was an active member of alumni activities.
He is survived by his wife Debbie, daughter Danit Garlan and son Anthony Clayman, grandsons Harrison, Owen and Ethan, son-in-law Gene Gartlan and daughter-in-law Margaret Cohen, among many cousins and dozens of friends, old and new. He will be missed and remembered for his unending kindness, warm smile and affection for everyone.
We will be holding a Zoom celebration of Warren’s life, Sunday, June 27 at 6 PM EST via Zoom.
His family and friends will be honoring Warren by creating the Warren B. Clayman scholarship at the Cleveland Heights School Foundation. They have committed to raise a minimum of $25,000 to create a permanent, endowed scholarship that will be awarded every year to a graduating senior. Anyone who would like to contribute to that effort can donate online or contact the foundation’s Executive Director Julianna Johnston Senturia at [email protected]. The best tribute anyone could give Warren is to help his legacy live on in a place that was so meaningful to him--supporting promising young students from his alma mater for generations to come.
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