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During World War II she was a Red Cross social worker.She was a social worker for the D.C. child welfare agency and later for the old Department of Public Welfare in Baltimore. After her marriage in 1953, she was a homemaker.

Mrs. Kirshbaum was a member of Hadassah, a Jewish women's organization, and was interested in Jewish history and the Yiddish language. She visited Israel several times.

Over the years, she lived in Silver Spring, Bethesda, Potomac, Sterling, Herndon and Reston.

Her husband, Amiel Kirshbaum, died in 1991.

Survivors include four daughters, Barbara Simon of Tampa, Anne Rosenberg of Herndon and Susan Silberschein and Betty Intrater, both of Jerusalem; a brother, Marvin Geller of Baltimore; and 10 grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel


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