Ms. Terese "Tracey" Ellen Acker

Terese Ellen Acker, of Manhattan, New York, passed away February 25th, 2019 at the age of 86 years old in New York City. Terese was the only child of Leonard Acker and Esther Rella Brause and was born in Brooklyn, NY and remained a lifelong resident of New York City. She graduated Cornell University in 1954 and later attended Columbia University, earning a Ph.D. in Chemistry. Her expertise resulted in her participation in working for a NASA Propulsion Division and related research, publishing papers on solid rocket propellants for the space program. She was also a professor of Chemistry at City College of New York and after a few years teaching, decided to re-direct her career and learn computer programming, which was a relatively new area. Training at IBM and learning Fortran and Cobol, Terese became an expert in her new career and worked for various banks and financial institutions, mainly in their SWIFT departments (bank to bank communications) and ultimately retired after many years as a valued employee with Chase Bank. Terese loved life and contributed in many ways to improve the quality of life of her many family & friends, and she remained active and involved with them until the very end! Terese had many interests including getting together with family and sponsoring reunions and special occasions, as well as utilizing many of the public institutions that New York had to offer. She was a frequent visitor to the Brooklyn and New York Public Libraries. She also loved going to the movies, either with friends or just by herself. She had a great sense of humor and was very well informed about the things she was interested in, and never missed the opportunity to tell you her opinion or how it really was! Terese is survived by: First Cousins; Therese Youngelson of Morristown, NJ; Arthur Brause of Marietta, GA; Peter Brause of Covina, CA; Annie Hand of Rumson, NJ; Tim Dressler, of New York, NY; and Louis Gordon of Seattle, WA; and a second Cousin Arthur Pushkin of Dix Hills, NY.