Cynthia Meyer Grubb

Cynthia Meyer Grubb died on December 22, 2020, at the age of 88, in San Francisco. Cynthia was born September 20, 1932, in Inglewood, New Jersey. Her father was Carleton W. Meyer of Wisconsin, and her mother was Dorothy Irwin Cox of Maryland. The family lived in New York for a year, and then moved to Inglewood, NJ. Two brothers were added to the family over the first eight years. After living in Inglewood for twelve years, the family moved to various suburbs on the East-coast and Midwest, because of Carleton’s career with the railroad. Cynthia attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL, and graduated from Shaker Heights High School in Cleveland, Ohio.

In 1954, she graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio with a BA in French Literature. During that summer, she lived with a family in Beaune, France through The Experiment in International Living. The next year, she received a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In 1955, She followed her dream of moving to California, and began a teaching position in Palo Alto, CA. She taught there for twelve years. Always an adventurer, in 1960, she traveled to Madrid, Spain for a year to teach at the Torrejon Air-force Dependent School.

In the summer of 1967, she went on a Sierra Club trip to Alaska, and met the assistant leader, Ted Grubb, a native of San Francisco, and an outdoor enthusiast like herself. They got to know each other through tragedy, when the leader of the trip fell off a cliff to his death. On December 30th of 1967, they were married after a whirlwind romance. They lived in the Richmond District of San Francisco with their one daughter, Deborah Grubb Moskovitz. Ted owned and managed the Mountain Shop, which was an outdoor and mountaineering store. He died in 1981, but Cynthia continued to live in San Francisco for the rest of her life, eventually moving to the Sequoias.

In 1983, she began employment as an assistant librarian at Convent of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco. She enjoyed working there for fourteen years, and retired in June 1997.

In her retirement, she was a very active member of the Save the Redwoods League, Calvary Presbyterian Church, and her Oberlin Alumni group. She enjoyed travel to Europe, Mexico, Canada, Central America, South Africa, and South America. She also enjoyed painting, and intellectual pursuits. You could always find her walking around San Francisco with friends.

She is survived by one daughter, Deborah Grubb Moskovitz, a son-in-law, Bob Moskovitz, granddaughters, Renee and Hana Moskovitz, two brothers James and Thomas Meyer, sister-in-law Elizabeth Lampen, niece Bevan Meyer Wisch, nephews Caleb and Jonah Meyer, and Michael and Stephen Lampen, and nine grandnieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to the Save the Redwoods League, 111 Sutter St 11th floor, San Francisco, CA 94104. Because of Covid-19, the exact date for a funeral is unknown.