Judith Fogelman Sennett

At sunrise on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, Judith Fogelman Sennett died at home surrounded by family after a long and fiercely determined fight against cancer during a world pandemic.
Judy was born in August 1927 in Brooklyn, NY, to Charles and Selma (Fishman) Fogelman. She proudly attended Erasmus High School and Brooklyn College. She married Daniel Sennett in 1951 and raised daughters Barbara and Marcia and son Steven. "Danny," as Judy called him, died in November 2006.
Judy dedicated much of her life to volunteering for a wide variety of organizations close to her heart both in the Lehigh Valley since 1970, and prior to that in the years when the family lived in Brooklyn and Baltimore. She served a number of charitable and community organizations, including the Mothers' March against Birth Defects, PTA, school libraries and Citizens' Advisory Committees in both Baltimore and Whitehall, American Jewish Congress, the Allentown Jewish Community Center's blood drives via the Miller Memorial Blood Bank, the Lehigh Valley Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired for which she did vision and hearing screening for preschoolers and kindergartners, the Jewish Community Center's Women's Auxiliary, and the Keneseth Israel Sisterhood. She was honored by the Pennsylvania Council of the UAHC for distinguished and dedicated service to congregation and community in 1994, by Keneseth Israel in 1999, received the Woman of Valor Award from the Women of Reform Judaism (Atlantic District) in 2010, and was one of Jewish Family Service's "8 over 80" honorees in 2016. She was a member of both Temple Shirat Shalom and Congregation Keneseth Israel in Allentown.
Judy was dynamic and a dynamo. She was one of those people that made friends everywhere she went – people loved talking to her, enjoyed her sense of humor and her warmth. She had an amazing memory and was the living encyclopedia of all the family details and connections. Her friend in China called her a mentor for teaching him about having a positive outlook and her friends in Australia exchanged jokes and stories with her. She was the glue to her family, even her extended family.
Judy is survived by daughter Barbara Sennett and her husband Hans Wagner; daughter Marcia (Sennett) Friedman and her husband Steven; son Steven Sennett; brother Sheldon Fogelman; sister Vivian (Fogelman) Rashbaum Berkman; and grandchildren: Zachary Friedman and his wife Lauren, Sarah (Friedman) LaMere and her husband Kyle, Logan Sennett, Dup Sennett, Caroline "Dani" Wagner, and Juls Wagner. Judy had one great-granddaughter, Emma Sloane LaMere.
Services are private. Arrangements are being made by Bachman, Kulik & Reinsmith Funeral Home in Allentown.
Judy supported numerous charities as well as her two congregations. The family suggests that if anyone wishes to donate in her memory, contributions could be made to Share Care of Lehigh Valley, the Lehigh Valley Ecumenical Food Bank, the Lehigh Valley Association for the Blind and Vision Impaired, Planned Parenthood, Jewish Federation of Allentown, or either of her congregations.