Charlotte Rosenstein
b. 17 May 1924, d. 11 April 2009
- Father: Abraham A. Rosenstein b. circa 1891
- Mother: Mary Mendelson b. 25 December 1891, d. 20 June 1961
- Charlotte Rosenstein was born on 17 May 1924 in New York.
- She was known as Connie.
- Charlotte Ross was admitted to the Home for Hebrew Infants on 9 November 1927, at age 3 years, by court order.
- She married Joseph Rothman.
- Charlotte Rosenstein became a widow at the 8 June 1961 death of her husband Joseph Rothman.
- The following appeared on 6 October 1989 in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Lynn Ross Wood, 66, formerly of Sarasota, died Oct. 2, 1989, in Washington, D.C.
She was born in New York and came to this area 12 years ago. She was a deputy director of personnel in the White House during President Reagan's first term and had worked for Reagan when he was governor of California.
Wood attended Los Angeles City College and the University of California at Los Angeles.
In 1972, she worked for Californians For Lower Taxes. At the end of 1973, she went to work as an administrative assistant to Gov. Reagan in Sacramento and remained there until 1975.
Wood began working for Reagan's presidential campaign in 1979 and alter was active in the Reagan for president organization in Sarasota. In 1980, she returned to Arlington, Va., to work for the Reagan-Bush campaign as assistant to the campaign treasurer. She was a member of the transition team after the election and then went to the White House to work in personnel. There she was the assistant to Helene von Damm who later became ambassador to Austria.
She was a delegate to the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women, held in Vienna in 1984. She also was co-chairman of the Reagan-Bush Reunion for several years.
In 1985, Wood was named executive director of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education at the Department of Education and in 1988 was named special assistant to the chief of staff at the Veterans Administration.
She was a member of the Republican Women's Federal Forum, Executive Women in Government, the Renaissance Women and the Friends of the Kennedy Center.
Survivors include a sister, Connie Rothman of Scottsdale, Ariz; and four brothers, Alexander Ross of North Hollywood, Calif., Ernest Ross of Honolulu, Lee Ross of Northport, Calif., and Max Ross of Greenville, R.I.
Services and burial are in Arlington. Devol Funeral Home in Washington, D.C., is in charge.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20009 or to the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis, Calif. 95616. - The following appeared on 26 September 2006 in the Providence Journal: Max Ross, 79, formerly of Farnum Pike, a self-employed handyman until retiring, died Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at Zambarano Hospital in Pascoag.
Born in New York, he was a son of the late George and Mary (Mendellson) Ross. He lived in Smithfield for many years until moving to Burrillville.
He is survived by his brothers, Ernest and Lee Ross of California and a sister, Charlotte R. Rothman of Arizona. He was the brother of the late Alex and Lynn Ross.
Funeral private. - The SSDI lists Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota, as the last residence of record of Charlotte Rosenstein.
- Charlotte Rosenstein died on 11 April 2009 at age 84.
- Last Edited: 4 Sep 2015