Renate Miller (nee Gumprecht) beloved wife of the late Dr. Marvin Miller. Loving mother of Cantor Rebecca (Irad) Carmi, Cynthia (Dr. Michael) Weiner, Dr. Valerie (Dr. Adam) Brodsky, Victor (Shoshana Buchholz-Miller) Miller and Dr. Lydia (Paul Smith) Miller-Anderson. Devoted grandmother of Amnon, Aryeh and Yardena Carmi, Julia Weiner, Noah Weiner, Lauren, Eden, Shai and Sol Brodsky, Annabel, Atticus and Tess Miller, Zach Anderson and Eli Anderson. Dear sister of Karen Komar and the late Marion Portman. Services will be held Sunday, September 4 at 10 AM at the BERKOWITZ-KUMIN-BOOKATZ MEMORIAL CHAPEL, 1985 S. Taylor Rd. Cleveland Heights, OH. Interment Lake View Cemetery. Family will receive friends at the residence of Rebecca and Irad Carmi 24810 Cedar Rd. Beachwood, OH, SUNDAY FOLLOWING SERVICES AND INTERMENT UNTIL 6 PM, MONDAY 10 AM-3 PM.
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Renate was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1937 and escaped the Holocaust with her parents and two sisters in 1941 as immigrants to the USA. With the assistance of HIAS, the family was settled in Cleveland. They were on the last boat out of Europe.
She attended Cleveland Heights High School and after graduation went on to attend undergraduate college at Mt. Holyoke College and Case Western Reserve University, where she also received her master's degree in Education.
Renate taught high school German and French in Whiting, Indiana and supported her husband while he attended medical school. They moved back to Cleveland in 1964 where Renate's husband interned at Brentwood Hospital. She helped her husband set up his private practice in family medicine here in Cleveland and served as his de facto office manager while raising their five children. When her children were grown she re-trained and returned to teaching in the Cleveland School system as a learning disability specialist.
She was a marathon runner (at her own pace), a lifetime member of Hadassah and Na'amat and Park Synagogue and was very active in The Cleveland Hiking Club, hiking 5 to 10 miles daily. Renate loved movies and she loved to travel and spoke 3 languages, French, English and German. She had an active mahjong group and met her high school friends for lunch monthly.
She will be missed by her family and all those whose lives she touched.
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