MARJORIE HIATT BERNSTEIN

1932 - 2020

BERNSTEIN, Marjorie Hiatt Died Tuesday morning, December 22nd, of complications of sepsis. She was 88 and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born in 1932 in Worcester, Massachusetts, she graduated from Vassar College in 1954 and married the love of her life, Daniel S. Bernstein, M.D., of Baltimore, Maryland, just a week later. After their first year of marriage living just outside Harvard Square, the couple traveled to London and spent a very happy year there and puttering around England in a Hillman Husky before returning in 1956 to Durham, North Carolina and the birth of their first child. In 1957, they moved north to Newton, Massachusetts where they made their home for the next forty years before returning to Harvard Square in 1999 to an apartment she loved overlooking the Charles. She leaves her beloved children, Jeffrey Bernstein and his wife Stacey Cushner; Carolyn Bernstein, M.D. and her late husband Christopher Bullock, M.D.; and Andrew Bernstein and his wife Jacqueline Shoback; as well as five grandchildren who were her great pride and joy: Benjamin Bernstein, Ally Bernstein, Jemma Benson, M.D., Samantha Bernstein and William Bernstein. She leaves also her two older brothers, Howard Hiatt of Cambridge and Arnold Hiatt of Boston and numerous nephews and nieces. Her husband "Danny" died in 2007. She and Danny traveled the world, from China to Russia, Mexico to Alaska, Peru to Paris and many others and kept careful notes of every place they visited, every hotel and inn at which they lodged and, perhaps most importantly, the restaurants at which they ate. These records were carefully entered in a tiny script in some of the smallest loose-leaf binders ever made. Above all, she and her husband spent many happy moments at their house on Martha's Vineyard, entertaining on their deck (she kept a notebook of cocktail parties and was an accomplished cook and host extraordinaire), and on the tennis courts. She was a writer of both fiction (her children loved to read stories she kept in her bedside night table) and later served as a columnist for a local weekly newspaper and freelanced for the Boston Globe and numerous other publications. A lover of the written and spoken word, she never hesitated to correct your grammar or pronunciation. And for many years she cut a fine figure as a model on the old Channel 2 auctions which her family proudly watched. After several decades of writing, she went on to earn her Masters' in Communications from Simmons College and then a Masters' in Education from Harvard University which she then put to work as a Development Director for the Cambridge School of Weston and, for many years, as Publications Director for the Brookline School Department. A great believer in the value of education, she was keenly interested in her grandchildren's academic achievements. Private Services were held. In lieu of gifts, please make a contribution to the Greater Boston Food Bank, https://www.gbfb.org/ Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight, https://fairfight.com/ or a foodbank/COVID relief charity of your choice.

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