Marcia Levin (Marcia Martin); children's book writer
Hyfler/Rosner
April 23, 2006 Sunday
Late Edition - Final
HEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
LEVIN, MARCIA LAUTER OBRASKY
LEVIN -- Marcia Lauter Obrasky. Died peacefully on April 18,
2006, in Sarasota Memorial Hospital after a long illness. A
popular children's book author, using the pen name of Marcia
Martin, creator of the Donna Parker series, as well as 22
books for beginning readers, and some of the first
enrichment text books in the ''New Mathematics,'' she was
born and raised in Philadelphia, and lived in Rye, New York
for 56 years.
She is survived by her husband, Martin, her sons, Jeremy and
Hugh, her daughter, Wendy, her sister, Louise Obrasky
Bernstein, nine grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
She took exceptional pride in the achievements of the
accomplished and multi-talented family she engendered,
imbued with her love of literature and the arts, and for
whom she provided constant encouragement. Her husband,
Martin, was, for 17 years, until 1983, the President of
Times Mirror Book Publishing, and an author, himself, and,
at her urging, upon retirement, followed a life-long dream,
by getting a law degree at age 65, and has, for the last 22
years, been an attorney at Cowan, Liebowitz and Latman of
New York, as well an Adjunct Professor of Law, specializing
in publishing law, at New York Law School, and a Fellow and
Lecturer at the Stanford University Professional Publishing
Course in Palo Alto. Her older son, Jeremy Leven, (another
novelist --Creator, Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure), is
also a screenwriter (Creator, The Legend of Bagger Vance,
The Notebook), and a film director (Don Juan DeMarco). Her
daughter, Dr. Wendy Newby, is a psychologist and Associate
Dean of Emory College, who also serves as Director of The
Levin Center for the Development of Educational Potential.
And her younger son, Hugh Lauter Levin is the President of
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., a publisher of fine art
and illustrated books. The family will be available at the
Zion Memorial Chapel at 785 East Boston Post Road,
Mamaroneck, New York from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM on Sunday,
April 23, 2006. Funeral Services will be held at the Rye
Community Synagogue, 200 Forest Avenue, Rye NY 10580 at
10:00 AM on Monday, April 24, 2006, with internment
following at Sharon Gardens, Valhalla, New York. The family
will be at home, 221 Kirby Lane, Rye NY, during the evening
at 7:00 PM on Monday, April 24 and Tuesday, April 25, 2006.
In lieu of flowers, contributions to the Levin Center for
the Development of Educational Potential at 1525 Richard
Stokes Drive, Decatur, Georgia 30033.