Naomi Gisela Feil

I had the privilege of meeting Naomi twice in Switzerland, in the 90s, for training sessions on Validation. She also came to the nursing home where I worked and we had a wonderful time with her. Naomi has helped improve our relationship skills with people with Alzheimer's disease. An inspired and inspiring great lady.

In Breisach am Rhein in the southwest corner of Germany on the French border was Naomi Mimi Feil's mother's home. The Kahn family is well known in the region. Members of the family come here to visit the graves of famous ancestors, f.e. Rabbi David Kahn and Rabbi Isaak Kahn, his son. When the Nazis came to power, only Naomi's widowed grandmother Bertha Kahn was still living in Breisach. Naomi's mother had married Julius Weil from Steinsfurt and together they lived and worked in Munich, where...

I can't remember the details of seeing Naomi in action as part of some type of professional education program and am almost thinking she was part of a program with Dan Deutschman at one time...but she was quite a force...educational and entertaining at the same time all laced with her compassion and empathy for others. And for some reason I am thinking, not sure if accurate that her parents had something to do with Montefiore in its former location and she was immersed with being with older...

Please accept my deepest condolences. May the God of comfort bring peace to your hearts and minds during this difficult time.

I was at the University of Iowa studying in their Aging Studies Certification program in the late 1980's. Naomi's wisdom let me work successfully with elders for 34 years.

I've known Naomi by her delightful participation in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Oregon, sperhaps 5 or 6 years, first bringing her husband Ed along with her, and always willing to perform Edith Piaf songs and to read French with a perfect French accent with such wonderful dramatic expression. She also liked to tell the story of young romance with an American soldier with whom she traveled in Europe. I will miss her brightness.