People named Mildred Lieff

My mother was the oldest of two daughters. She was a very beautiful and refined woman with very good taste. She was, also, very practical. You could say that my mother was the "salt of the earth". You could, also, say that my mother always knew the right thing to do. She was a very good cook and homemaker and her real "job" in life was as a mother. She took her responsibilities very seriously and it was important to my mother that people thought that we were well brought up. My mother was a loving, devoted wife to my father and a very devoted family person. She had a lot of friends and was admired in the community. My mother had a regal bearing and always seemed to me to be the most elegant person in any room. She was generous and charitable. An amusing story that my sister and I heard about our mother is that, in her teen years, she once wanted to go somewhere, at night, and her mother didn't want her to go, so she climbed out of the window. Several decades later, her oldest granddaughter, Suzanne, did the same thing! My mother had very high standards for her immediate family and fiercely protected us if anyone hurt us. She, also, had a dry sense of humor. My mother was a sophisticate, despite having married at age 20 and she loved cultural activities, especially theater- and movie-going. Her love was very deep.

Mildred Lieff of Longport, Atlantic County, NJ was born on March 11, 1919, and died at age 89 years old on December 3, 2008.