Pfeifer, Susan Miriam

1938 - 2004  (66 years)

• Name	Pfeifer, Susan Miriam  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Born	13 Aug 1938	Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Died	3 Dec 2004	Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA   [1, 2, 3, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I16446	Our Family | Descendants of Lob Pfeifer
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Pfeifer, Harry William Jr.,   b. 13 Oct 1906, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA ,   d. 14 Jul 1974  (Age 67 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Cohn, Raida Louise,   b. 3 Jan 1910, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA ,   d. 13 Mar 2001, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA  (Age 91 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	3 Oct 1931	Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA   [8, 9, 10]
  Family ID	F9525	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Deaton, Robert Elias
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024
  Family ID	F535	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Sherman, Charles Robert
  Children	1. Sherman, William Bradford
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024
  Family ID	F2522	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Susan Miriam Pfeifer, artist and merchant of Little Rock, died December 3, 2004. She was born in Little Rock, the youngest of three children of the late Harry William and Raida Cohn Pfeifer and grandchildren of Harry William and Heloise Kaufman Pfeifer and Albert Daniel and Marcuse Stifft Cohn, members of prominent mercantile families of early Little Rock. Susan was a graduate of Dana Hall in Massachusetts, attended the San Francisco Art Institute, Vassar College in New York and graduated from San Francisco State College. Susan was the owner operator of the Design Center and part owner of M.M. Cohn Company where she once was the gifts buyer, and manager of the Oklahoma City and El Dorado stores. Her weavings and pottery have been exhibited and are in collections throughout the world. She was a member of the American and Contemporary Crafts Councils, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Society and Congregation B'nai Israel and served on the boards of and did volunteer work for the Arkansas Arts Center, Central Arkansas Library System, UALR Friends of the Arts, Planned Parenthood, Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, Arkansas AIDS Foundation and Friends of the Zoo. Susan is survived by her son William Bradford Sherman and wife Christina of Little Rock and Christina's children, Harrison Burgess and Madeline Claire Baber, one brother Harry Donald Pfeifer of Little Rock, one sister Marcuse Lucille Pfeifer of Kingston, New York, an aunt Rosa Pfeifer Isacson of Nashville, Tennessee, nieces; Jennifer Maddox of Little Rock, Debbie Li of Kirkland, Washington, Pamela Pfeifer of Little Rock, Jessica Pfeifer of Baltimore, Maryland, and Gwen Pfeifer of Willimantic, Connecticut, nephew Paul Pfeifer of Little Rock, three great-nephews, four great-nieces and special friends Robert Deaton and John Leftwich. Along with her parents and grandparents, two aunts, Miriam Cohn Phillips and Lucille Pfeifer Rosenfield, also predecease her.

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;). [S15] Obituary, online for Susan Miriam Pfeifer. [S508] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.Original data - Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security ;), Number: 429-72-0744; Issue State: Arkansas; Issue Date: 1956. [S195] 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas; Roll: T627_168; Page: 63A; Enumeration District: 60-79B. 1940 United States Federal Census [S313] California, Divorce Index, 1966-1984, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc;). California, Divorce Index, 1966-1984 [S108] Online Tree, Ancestry.com. [S108] Online Tree, Ancestry.com, ancestry.com. [S496] Texas Birth Index. [S586] Inference, returned from France as Cohn, Jun 1931, returned from Bermuda as Pfeifer Oct 1931. [S15] Obituary, for Radine.