December 27, 1945 – November 29, 2021
On Monday, November 29, 2021, in Chico, CA at age 75. Loving mother of Amy (Jeremy) Miller and Ross Sanger, dear sister of Robert (Marcy) Wolpe and Rona (Joseph) Katz, adoring grandmother of Zia and Tali Miller, and a beloved aunt, cousin, and friend to many others.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, December 5, 2021, 11 a.m. at TORCHINSKY HEBREW FUNERAL HOME, 254 Carroll St., NW, Washington, DC, 202-541-1001. A live-streamed video of the funeral service will be viewable at: https://sites.google.com/view/carolyn-sanger-funeral/home. Burial will follow at the Adas Israel Cemetery for immediate family only. An in-person shiva will be observed on Monday, December 6, 2021, 4 – 7 p.m., at the Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD 20814
Carolyn was the first child born to her parents, Allen Maurice Wolpe and Eleanor Blumenthal Wolpe, in 1945 and grew up in Washington, D.C., and Chevy Chase, MD, surrounded by a large extended family with deep roots in the area. She attended Tufts University, graduating with a degree in Early Childhood Education in 1967. She met her future husband, Christopher Sanger, while in college, and they were married just a few weeks after her graduation. Prior to starting a family, Carolyn worked as a kindergarten teacher, both in New Jersey and Montgomery County, MD.
Carolyn's children, Amy (Sanger) Miller and Ross Sanger, were born in 1972 and 1975 respectively. Carolyn was a dedicated mother, a meticulous homemaker, and gracious hostess her entire adult life.
In her late 20s, Carolyn traveled to Israel for the first time and returned home an enthusiastic, life-long Zionist, which propelled her on a path of providing service to those in need. Channeling her family's Lithuanian roots, she helped to found the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry in the 1970s, acting as Chairman of that organization. She made it her personal mission to free the Jews in the former Soviet Union who were being persecuted and prevented from emigration by the Soviet Communist government. Significantly, she traveled through the Soviet Union in 1985, along with her sister Rona, at the height of the Cold War, meeting with Jewish "refuseniks" and providing support to them. Later, when restrictions on Jewish emigration were eased somewhat, Carolyn arranged for both financial and political assistance to refusenik Jews and aided in their relocation to the U.S. or Israel.
Carolyn was also an advocate for mental health issues and served in multiple leadership positions to this end. Among others, she served as the Executive Director of the Montgomery County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI); she also played an active role in Sheppard Pratt Hospital's Way Station and Camp Journey programs, which to this day continue to provide respite care to families of children with mental illness.
After her first bout with breast cancer in 1987, which gave her an opportunity to re-evaluate her personal goals and priorities, Carolyn founded and operated a business, which was originally called Anything But Windows and later was renamed Piles of Paper?. As a professional organizer, Carolyn assisted clients in managing documents and other tangible belongings first in Washington, D.C., and then in Tucson, Arizona.
After retirement, Carolyn moved to Chico, California, and was blessed to spend time with her daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughters, Zia and Tali, in her final years.
On Monday, November 29, 2021, in Chico, CA at age 75. Loving mother of Amy (Jeremy) Miller and Ross Sanger, dear sister of Robert (Marcy) Wolpe and Rona (Joseph) Katz, adoring grandmother of Zia and Tali Miller, and a beloved aunt, cousin, and friend to many others.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, December 5, 2021, 11 a.m. at TORCHINSKY HEBREW FUNERAL HOME, 254 Carroll St., NW, Washington, DC, 202-541-1001. A live-streamed video of the funeral service will be viewable at: https://sites.google.com/view/carolyn-sanger-funeral/home. Burial will follow at the Adas Israel Cemetery for immediate family only. An in-person shiva will be observed on Monday, December 6, 2021, 4 – 7 p.m., at the Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD 20814
Carolyn was the first child born to her parents, Allen Maurice Wolpe and Eleanor Blumenthal Wolpe, in 1945 and grew up in Washington, D.C., and Chevy Chase, MD, surrounded by a large extended family with deep roots in the area. She attended Tufts University, graduating with a degree in Early Childhood Education in 1967. She met her future husband, Christopher Sanger, while in college, and they were married just a few weeks after her graduation. Prior to starting a family, Carolyn worked as a kindergarten teacher, both in New Jersey and Montgomery County, MD.
Carolyn's children, Amy (Sanger) Miller and Ross Sanger, were born in 1972 and 1975 respectively. Carolyn was a dedicated mother, a meticulous homemaker, and gracious hostess her entire adult life.
In her late 20s, Carolyn traveled to Israel for the first time and returned home an enthusiastic, life-long Zionist, which propelled her on a path of providing service to those in need. Channeling her family's Lithuanian roots, she helped to found the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry in the 1970s, acting as Chairman of that organization. She made it her personal mission to free the Jews in the former Soviet Union who were being persecuted and prevented from emigration by the Soviet Communist government. Significantly, she traveled through the Soviet Union in 1985, along with her sister Rona, at the height of the Cold War, meeting with Jewish "refuseniks" and providing support to them. Later, when restrictions on Jewish emigration were eased somewhat, Carolyn arranged for both financial and political assistance to refusenik Jews and aided in their relocation to the U.S. or Israel.
Carolyn was also an advocate for mental health issues and served in multiple leadership positions to this end. Among others, she served as the Executive Director of the Montgomery County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI); she also played an active role in Sheppard Pratt Hospital's Way Station and Camp Journey programs, which to this day continue to provide respite care to families of children with mental illness.
After her first bout with breast cancer in 1987, which gave her an opportunity to re-evaluate her personal goals and priorities, Carolyn founded and operated a business, which was originally called Anything But Windows and later was renamed Piles of Paper?. As a professional organizer, Carolyn assisted clients in managing documents and other tangible belongings first in Washington, D.C., and then in Tucson, Arizona.
After retirement, Carolyn moved to Chico, California, and was blessed to spend time with her daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughters, Zia and Tali, in her final years.
December 27, 1945 – November 29, 2021
On Monday, November 29, 2021, in Chico, CA at age 75. Loving mother of Amy (Jeremy) Miller and Ross Sanger, dear sister of Robert (Marcy) Wolpe and Rona (Joseph) Katz, adoring grandmother of Zia and Tali Miller, and a beloved aunt, cousin, and friend to many others.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, December 5, 2021, 11 a.m. at TORCHINSKY HEBREW FUNERAL HOME, 254 Carroll St., NW, Washington, DC, 202-541-1001. A live-streamed video of the funeral service will be viewable at: https://sites.google.com/view/carolyn-sanger-funeral/home. Burial will follow at the Adas Israel Cemetery for immediate family only. An in-person shiva will be observed on Monday, December 6, 2021, 4 – 7 p.m., at the Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD 20814
Carolyn was the first child born to her parents, Allen Maurice Wolpe and Eleanor Blumenthal Wolpe, in 1945 and grew up in Washington, D.C., and Chevy Chase, MD, surrounded by a large extended family with deep roots in the area. She attended Tufts University, graduating with a degree in Early Childhood Education in 1967. She met her future husband, Christopher Sanger, while in college, and they were married just a few weeks after her graduation. Prior to starting a family, Carolyn worked as a kindergarten teacher, both in New Jersey and Montgomery County, MD.
Carolyn's children, Amy (Sanger) Miller and Ross Sanger, were born in 1972 and 1975 respectively. Carolyn was a dedicated mother, a meticulous homemaker, and gracious hostess her entire adult life.
In her late 20s, Carolyn traveled to Israel for the first time and returned home an enthusiastic, life-long Zionist, which propelled her on a path of providing service to those in need. Channeling her family's Lithuanian roots, she helped to found the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry in the 1970s, acting as Chairman of that organization. She made it her personal mission to free the Jews in the former Soviet Union who were being persecuted and prevented from emigration by the Soviet Communist government. Significantly, she traveled through the Soviet Union in 1985, along with her sister Rona, at the height of the Cold War, meeting with Jewish "refuseniks" and providing support to them. Later, when restrictions on Jewish emigration were eased somewhat, Carolyn arranged for both financial and political assistance to refusenik Jews and aided in their relocation to the U.S. or Israel.
Carolyn was also an advocate for mental health issues and served in multiple leadership positions to this end. Among others, she served as the Executive Director of the Montgomery County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI); she also played an active role in Sheppard Pratt Hospital's Way Station and Camp Journey programs, which to this day continue to provide respite care to families of children with mental illness.
After her first bout with breast cancer in 1987, which gave her an opportunity to re-evaluate her personal goals and priorities, Carolyn founded and operated a business, which was originally called Anything But Windows and later was renamed Piles of Paper?. As a professional organizer, Carolyn assisted clients in managing documents and other tangible belongings first in Washington, D.C., and then in Tucson, Arizona.
After retirement, Carolyn moved to Chico, California, and was blessed to spend time with her daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughters, Zia and Tali, in her final years.
On Monday, November 29, 2021, in Chico, CA at age 75. Loving mother of Amy (Jeremy) Miller and Ross Sanger, dear sister of Robert (Marcy) Wolpe and Rona (Joseph) Katz, adoring grandmother of Zia and Tali Miller, and a beloved aunt, cousin, and friend to many others.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, December 5, 2021, 11 a.m. at TORCHINSKY HEBREW FUNERAL HOME, 254 Carroll St., NW, Washington, DC, 202-541-1001. A live-streamed video of the funeral service will be viewable at: https://sites.google.com/view/carolyn-sanger-funeral/home. Burial will follow at the Adas Israel Cemetery for immediate family only. An in-person shiva will be observed on Monday, December 6, 2021, 4 – 7 p.m., at the Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD 20814
Carolyn was the first child born to her parents, Allen Maurice Wolpe and Eleanor Blumenthal Wolpe, in 1945 and grew up in Washington, D.C., and Chevy Chase, MD, surrounded by a large extended family with deep roots in the area. She attended Tufts University, graduating with a degree in Early Childhood Education in 1967. She met her future husband, Christopher Sanger, while in college, and they were married just a few weeks after her graduation. Prior to starting a family, Carolyn worked as a kindergarten teacher, both in New Jersey and Montgomery County, MD.
Carolyn's children, Amy (Sanger) Miller and Ross Sanger, were born in 1972 and 1975 respectively. Carolyn was a dedicated mother, a meticulous homemaker, and gracious hostess her entire adult life.
In her late 20s, Carolyn traveled to Israel for the first time and returned home an enthusiastic, life-long Zionist, which propelled her on a path of providing service to those in need. Channeling her family's Lithuanian roots, she helped to found the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry in the 1970s, acting as Chairman of that organization. She made it her personal mission to free the Jews in the former Soviet Union who were being persecuted and prevented from emigration by the Soviet Communist government. Significantly, she traveled through the Soviet Union in 1985, along with her sister Rona, at the height of the Cold War, meeting with Jewish "refuseniks" and providing support to them. Later, when restrictions on Jewish emigration were eased somewhat, Carolyn arranged for both financial and political assistance to refusenik Jews and aided in their relocation to the U.S. or Israel.
Carolyn was also an advocate for mental health issues and served in multiple leadership positions to this end. Among others, she served as the Executive Director of the Montgomery County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI); she also played an active role in Sheppard Pratt Hospital's Way Station and Camp Journey programs, which to this day continue to provide respite care to families of children with mental illness.
After her first bout with breast cancer in 1987, which gave her an opportunity to re-evaluate her personal goals and priorities, Carolyn founded and operated a business, which was originally called Anything But Windows and later was renamed Piles of Paper?. As a professional organizer, Carolyn assisted clients in managing documents and other tangible belongings first in Washington, D.C., and then in Tucson, Arizona.
After retirement, Carolyn moved to Chico, California, and was blessed to spend time with her daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughters, Zia and Tali, in her final years.
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