Joseph and Vera (Peters) Cohen

Date: 1918 to about 1982
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: Cohen Peters

Joseph and Vera (Peters) Cohen

From The story of the Julius Cohen family of Seattle, Washington, prepared by Joseph Cohen.^[1]

Upon his completion of grade school in Seattle in 1918, Joe was taken by his mother to New York City and entered into the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Rabbinical Seminary and the associated Talmudical Academy High School (now units of Yeshiva University) which were then located in the Lower East Side. After completing the high school phase of his studies, Joe made his only trip home during his five-year stay in New York City. He did his first year of college work at Columbia University, and returned to Seattle to complete his undergraduate studies, and to earn a master’s degree in sociology at the University of Washington. In 1927, he was invited to become an instructor in sociology at the University of Michigan while pursuing further graduate studies there. After earning his Ph.D., degree at Michigan, he accepted a position on the sociology department faculty at the University of Washington, where he continued until his retirement in 1975.

He and Vera Peters of Vancouver, British Columbia were married in 1936. Vera taught mathematics in a junior high school for eighteen years. They have three children.

1. The oldest is Barbara Sharon (Mrs. Robert) Coldwell of Gainesville, Florida. Robert is a physicist at the University of Florida. The Coldwell’s children are Susan and Charles.
2. The second is Margaret Francis (Miller) of New York City. The Miller’s have a one-year old daughter, Ashley. Margaret continues her many years of employment in an administrative capacity in the N.Y.C. Human Resources Administration. Her husband, Joseph, is a lawyer on the staff of the Brooklyn Legal Aid Society.
3. The Cohen’s third child, Edward, a cell biologist, is currently doing recombinant DNA research at the Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Joseph and Vera have done considerable foreign travel since 1970, including especially extended trips to Israel about every second year, where they have spent much time in Jerusalem visiting with Dov and Zehava, but have visited widely also in other parts of the country where they have numerous close friends.

Sources

1. ↑ Document in the possession of Harvey Levitt. Wiki'd by K. Bloom.