Robert & Sarah-LeVine-Obituary

Robert & Sarah LeVine

Watertown, Massachusetts

Mar 27, 1932 – Aug 22, 2023

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BORN
March 27, 1932
DIED
August 22, 2023
LOCATION
Watertown, Massachusetts

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Dr. Robert A. LeVine and Dr. Sarah E. LeVine (nee Friedberger) both died in August. The Harvard anthropologists met in Nigeria in 1961, married in Chicago in 1968, and worked together for more than 50 years. Born in New York City in 1932, Bob LeVine was a leading figure in the field of...

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I met Sarah Levine at my jewelry show at Bonnie´s home in Orland, Maine. Sarah was a very good client of mine and over many such shows at Bonnie´s she and I became friends. Once she purchased a coral/turquoise necklace, she told me she loved so much she never took it off. She bought many beautiful pieces of jewelry for a period of many years. I missed her so much. What an interesting lady with a beautiful smile. She is missedEve Rice

I knew Bob and Sarah from my early days during my post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard looking at child mortality in Mali, West Africa. They encouraged me to go beyond the figures and to look at the WHY! Hence, I drew heavily on their ground-breaking work on maternal education and caretaker-child interaction and spent, after their guidance, hundreds of hours doing observational fieldwork. Bob and Sarah were so incredibly kind to me and I am so grateful to them personally and professionally....

Wonderful people I had the privilege to assist in a small way at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. To Anna, Alex, and Family: You were the center of Bob and Sarah's world -- please accept my heartfelt condolences and feel warmly welcome to contact me. Wishing you peace & love always, Lisa Lemerise Fischer

Dear Bob ad Sarah, You were a most lovely and humane couple that we were and are proud to call our friends. You were special to us in every conceivable way and we miss you greatly. Your passing leaves a very large hole in our lives. Much, much love to you both, Leonard and Ning

They led extraordinary lives and raised a truly impressive family. With love and deepest condolences. - Ari, Jill, Benjamin and Natalie