Ita and Nat Weiss

In Memoriam,

Ita Schultz Weiss and Nathaniel Weiss, our beloved parents.
Ita Weiss passed away in peace, at their home in Brooklyn, New York on June 27, 2012, at 91. Nat Weiss passed away in peace, also at their home in Brooklyn, on December 21, 2015, at 95. They each died of natural causes, without pain, living with family.

Their love, teamwork, wit, sparkle, and repartee became ever more apparent over their many, blessed years together. Their love for and dedication to family and friends, their generosity, their gift for living and loving, their shared values and their amazing integrity, these were always known to those who knew Ita and Nat.

Ita was a laboratory technician. On weekends she would sometimes stop at the lab to attend to a biopsy slide preparation to avoid the need for a repeated painful biopsy. And she quietly covered for co-workers too ill to work.
While Ita and many family members were able to escape Poland in the late 1930s, many family members and friends perished in the Holocaust. This haunted her for the rest of her life. She was an avid reader on the history of the holocaust, and European history in general.
In her 60s, Ita attended and graduated from Manhattan Community College, where she was on the Dean's list.

Ita had a heart for lonely people whose lives were not as blessed as hers. We often came home, after school, to find her thoroughly enjoying the company of someone who was alone, and sharing a nice meal with them.

Nat Weiss was a court reporter for the New York State court system for fifty-two years, beginning when he was twenty, shortly after graduating from Brooklyn College with a double major in English and Math. He trained his son, Bob, and they shared an office for many years. Nat won the National Shorthand Reporters Association speed contest for three consecutive years, 1958 – 1960. In the years before training tapes were commonplace, Nat and other colleagues created a series of dictation tapes to help young reporters train themselves in speed and skill. Nat further advanced the profession by writing two beautiful books to aid reporters in reporting and transcribing testimony more accurately: a guide to punctuation, and to medical terminology.
Nat was a kind, funny and brilliant man.
People often told us how much they enjoyed spending time with both of our parents.
Nat and Ita are survived by their two children, and two brothers of Nat.
We feel unspeakably blessed to have been honored, and for so many years, with parents who were kind, loving, generous and wise. Thank you, Mom and Dad.
At this time we would also like to remember our wonderful aunt, Miriam Weiss, who passed on July 4th, wife of Irwin, Nat's twin brother, who lives in California near their son Alan, and their grandson, Nanak-Nahal. Children adored Miriam, and she always connected with the child in us, regardless of our age.