Marion Altman Monheim
MONHEIM: Marion Altman Monheim, age 96, died in Pittsburgh on May 15, 2025. She graduated from the Winchester Thurston School in 1945, majored in geography at Wellesley College and interned at the American Geographical Society. From the time of her graduation in 1949 until her marriage in December 1950 to Dr. Leonard Monheim of Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, she lived in New York City at the Barbizon Hotel for Women and worked for the General Drafting Corporation, one of the “big three” road map publishers in the United States at the time. Marnie was a devoted wife, mother and keen golfer. After her husband’s death in 1971, she resumed her career. She was a key aide and confidante of Helen Bohen O’Bannon, a commissioner at the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission and then secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare. Latterly, Marnie performed freelance assignments for Women’s World Banking in New York City, China and Kenya. She was preceded in death by her parents, Flora and Harry Altman of East Liverpool, Ohio, her husband Dr. Leonard Meyers Monheim and her sisters Lea Gail Hoffrichter and Joan Harris. She was also a niece of the late Judge Abraham Wolk, one of the principal advocates of air pollution control measures in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and a prime mover of construction of Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena in the 1960s. Marnie is survived by her two children, Charles (Janet Reid Thomas) of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Lisa (Thomas Lampl) of Ketchum, Idaho, four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Arrangements entrusted to Ralph Schugar Chapel Inc. schugar.com PJC
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