Caroline R. Donhauser

DONHAUSER--Caroline R., died on August 9, 2025, in New Concord, New York. Born October 24, 1960, in New York City, she attended the Nightingale-Bamford School and Princeton University, where she received her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Russian Studies in 1982. Thereafter, she spent two years in Morocco, serving her country in the Peace Corps. She then attended Columbia University Law School, receiving her J.D. in 1989, and spent the following thirty years serving the public as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, working on appeals, legislation, and alternatives to incarceration. She loved literature, the visual arts, the French language, cooking, and gardening. Those who knew her will remember her for, among other things, her loyalty, her kindness, her empathy, her sense of humor, her independent-mindedness, and her modesty. She is survived by Victor Barall, her life partner of many years, and her brother Peter L. Donhauser, sister-in-law Whitney W. Donhauser, and nieces, Amelia W. Donhauser and Cecile L. Donhauser. Donations in her memory may be made to the Goddard Riverside Community Center, the Children's Aid Society, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.