CHARLES ZIMMERMAN

ZIMMERMAN--Charles, M.D., passed away peacefully from natural causes May 3rd, 2014 in Annapolis, Maryland. He was born in Brooklyn in 1931 to Bella Horn Zimmerman and Louis Zimmerman. He attended Stuyvesant High School, Columbia College and Downstate Medical School. In 1955 he married Roslyn Riegel. He completed his Radiology residency at Jacobi Hospital. He served as a Captain in the United States Army at Fort Gordon, Georgia from 1959-1961. He and Roslyn then moved to Northern New Jersey where he practiced Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. He obtained his board certification in Nuclear Medicine in the late 1960's. As an Associate Professor of Radiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he published many original studies in his field in various professional journals. He was President of the Medical Staff of the Barnert Memorial Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey in the early 1980's and served for many years on the hospital's Board of Directors. In addition to his professional accomplishments he had an encyclopedic knowledge of Civil War history and was an active member of the New York City and South Florida Civil War Roundtables. He had many other deeply explored intellectual pursuits throughout his life which included opera, classical music, ballet, wine appreciation, extensive travel, current affairs and was also an avid reader of classic literature. One of his great talents, which he maintained until the end, was his ability to engage and learn from people he encountered from all walks of life. He was an active member of Congregation Kneseth Israel in Annapolis. He is survived by his wife Roslyn Zimmerman, brother Arthur Zimmerman, of Sacramento, CA, and daughters Susan (William) Zimmerman of Annapolis, MD, and Gloria (Matthew) Zimmerman of New York City and four grandchildren, Stephen, Natalie, Maxwell and Lucy. He was devoted to his immediate and extended family who all cherished him and will miss him greatly. In the words of his granddaughter, Natalie, "people are only truly gone when the memory of them fades, but Grandpa's memory isn't going anywhere anytime soon."