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Dr. Theodore Greenbaum

January 04, 2007

Dr. Theodore Greenbaum, 80, of 17B Muirfield Drive died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 24, 1926, son of Harry and Rose Mondry Greenbaum, he attended the High School of Music and Art in New York. He earned a bachelor's from Syracuse University and a master's in English literature from the University of Minnesota.

He received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center and was a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

An Army veteran of World War II, he served as a private first class in Italy from 1945 to 1946.

Dr. Greenbaum was in private practice in New York and New Jersey until his retirement in 1998, when he moved to the Berkshires, where he had had a home for 20 years.

He was a member of the New York, New Jersey and American psychiatric societies and of the Berkshire Institute for Lifetime Learning. He was a published poet and the author of many psychoanalytic papers in academic journals.

He and his wife, the former Barbara Meisel Glatzer, were married June 25, 1983.

Besides his wife, he leaves a son, David Greenbaum of Winchester; three stepchildren, Peter Glatzer, Susan Glatzer and Jonathan Glatzer, all of Los Angeles; a sister, Judy Gounelas of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; and two grandchildren.

FUNERAL NOTICE -- A memorial service for Teddy Greenbaum, who died Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007, will be held at the Lenox Town Library, 18 Main St., on Sunday at 1 Donations in his memory may be made to HospiceCare in the Berkshires, 369 South St., Pittsfield, MA 01201.

Dr. Greenbaum was the loving grandfather of Julia and Eliza Greenbaum and the father-in-law of Ann LeVarn and Dianna Sirlin and Martha Little. A lover of music, he was an avid singer at both appropriate and inappropriate venues.


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