SUSAN RICHMAN

RICHMAN, Susan Susan Richman Dies at 99 Susan Kadison Richman of Newton, Mass for 61 years and lately of Chestnut Hill, Mass, died on February 5, 2024 at age 99 - just 1 month shy of her 100th birthday. Sue was the mother of Donna, Vicki, and Toby and grandmother to Henry (wife Morgan), Madee, Nevin (fiancée Mady), Griffin, and her most beloved granddogs and great-granddogs. Her husband of 44 years, Dr. Justin Richman, preceded her in death in 2001. She always missed her beloved parents Lilly and Milton, treasured brother Philip and, of course, darling collie Taffy. Sue Richman grew up in Larchmont, NY to a musical family and was trained in the clarinet and piano. She graduated from Skidmore College in 1945 and immediately headed to Manhattan to make her way in the world. She went into interior design from the journalism angle, focusing on the magazine world by working first at Good Housekeeping magazine then as an editor at Today's Woman and Seventeen. She adored the excitement and challenge of New York and magazines because all of her life she enjoyed being part of the action. She always had a wide circle of friends and even after she married, her friends played a central role in her vibrant life. Sue loved the arts as they were expressed in so many ways such as home décor, paintings, sculpture, crafts, and classical music. She served on many area councils and boards focused on the arts throughout her adult life and got so much pleasure supporting the Boston Symphony and the Museum of Fine Arts as a patron for many decades. Sue loved her older brother Philip enormously and they spoke every Friday until he died just a few months after Justin. It was a wonderful and loving tradition. She adored dogs, most especially her collie Taffy, but also the many dogs in her Newton neighborhood and at the MSPCA where she started volunteering at age 87. Sue played tennis until she was 93 and even still was the designated driver even for the ladies 10 and 15 years younger than she. It was harder for her to give up her zippy red Audi at 94 than leaving her house of 61 years! Her new life at the independent living Waterstone at the Circle widened her circle of friends and joy. Sue was always ready for every new adventure and gleefully took up ping pong at 97. She will be missed by so many friends and family, but she's left us all with fun memories and stories to tell. Please no flowers, instead, Sue would be so pleased to be honored by donations to the MA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA)-Angell in Boston. A funeral will be held at Temple Israel in Boston on Thursday February 8, 2024 at 10:00 am, followed by an interment at Sharon Memorial Park in Sharon, Mass. Parking for the funeral is available on the Riverway. The funeral can be watched remotely by requesting the link from Stanetsky Memorial Chapel in Brookline, Mass. Shiva/visiting will be held at Waterstone at the Circle, 385 Chestnut Hill Ave, Chestnut Hill, Mass in the 5th Floor lounge following the interment on Thursday until 5:00 pm and then again on Friday, February 9, 2024 from 2:00 pm until 5:00 pm. If there are no spaces in the small Waterstone lot near the front door, there is a public parking lot just north of the building, adjacent to the Cassidy Playground. newton Stanetsky Memorial Chapels 617-232-9300 www.stanetskybrookline.com