Note:  Joan Neuwirth was one of the founding members of our Middlesex County NOW chapter

JOAN NEUWIRTH, 77, MONROE

Home News Tribune Online, July 24, 2007

Joan C. Steinberg Neuwirth died Sunday, July 22, 2007, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, She was 77.

Born in The Bronx, N.Y., she lived in East Brunswick for 36 years, before moving to Monroe, where she had resided since 1997.

She received a master's degree in education from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Prior to retiring in 1991, Mrs. Neuwirth was an educator for the N.J. Division of Human Services, Trenton, for 20 years.

She enjoyed traveling and had visited almost every continent.

She worked tirelessly championing women's causes in the early years of the women's movement. She was president of the National Organization for Women-NJ in the 1970s and the East Brunswick Political Caucus, and had served on the Brandeis University National Women's Committee. She was a member of the East Brunswick Board of Education from 1969 to 1972. In later years she also worked with AARP on issues relating to the elderly.

She was predeceased by her husband, Sidney Neuwirth, in 1997, and a daughter, Caryn Gordon, in 1988. Surviving are a daughter, Marion Van Derveer, and her husband, David, of East Brunswick; and a brother, Charles Steinberg, and his wife, Gayle, of Mellville, N.Y. She was a devoted grandmother to Daniel and his fiancee, Andrea Bredin, and Joshua Van Derveer. Also surviving are a niece and two nephews.

Funeral services will be held today (Tuesday, July 24) at 11:45 a.m. at Mount Sinai Memorial Chapels, Cranbury Road at Evergreen Blvd., East Brunswick. Interment will follow at Washington Cemetery, South Brunswick. Memorial contributions may be made to Brandeis University National Women's Committee, c/o Edith Diamond, 17 B. Franklin Drive, Monroe, NJ 08831.