Eleanor Brown Goldberg

Goldberg, Eleanor Eleanor Brown Goldberg, 88, of New York City and Wellington, FL passed away peacefully on Friday, July 10, 2015, in Wellington FL with her daughter, Celia and grandchildren, George and Lauren by her side. The funeral service will be held at Palms West Funeral Home, Royal Palm Beach, FL on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 10:00 AM with Stephen H. Pinsky, D.D., Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth Torah, Wellington, FL. officiating. Internment will follow at The Eternal Light Memorial Gardens in Boynton Beach, FL. The Palms West Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Eleanor was born in New York City to Celia and Martin Brown on March 18, 1927. She graduated from the Highland Manner School, West Long Branch, NJ in 1943 and from the Russell Sage College, Troy, NY in 1947. She married Eugene Goldberg, who she had met at sleep-a-way camp when she was 14 years old, on June 28, 1947 in the Penthouse Ball Room of the Pierre Hotel, NYC and where they have resided for the past 25 years. Eleanor and Eugene's love and respect for each other evolved into a partnership that enabled them to build an extraordinary life for themselves and their family. Their support of each other, through out the over 70 years that they were together, enabled them to individually and jointly achieve their goals and experience life to its fullest. Eugene and his brother Robert took a small domestic distributor of chinaware, flatware, and glassware to hotel and restaurant chains and built it into a differentiated multinational firm that serviced leading companies in the foodservice, restaurant, airline and hospitality industries, with Eleanor as a key partner in the endeavor. Later, Eleanor became a trustee of her alma mater, Russell Sage College of Troy, NY. Eleanor was known for her keen mind, sharp wit, beauty and elegant sense of style. She was a very active presence on the New York and Palm Beach social scenes. She and her husband were generous supporters of many causes, including the Central Park Conservancy, the Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach Symphony, the Frick Museum, the Royal Academy, the United Jewish Federation and the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, among countless others. She was also a devoted long-time member of Sands Point Golf Club, Congregation Emanu-El and the Harmonie Club of New York. Her other passions were traveling, wine, golf, the arts, and her family. She traveled extensively with her husband, golfing in Scotland, shopping in Paris, exploring new vistas in Asia and Africa, seeing all that the world had to offer, completing over thirty trips around the globe. When not traveling, she loved Central Park and spent many hours sitting with her husband on one of the benches she had donated in commemoration of her family, admiring the park's beauty and majesty. Eleanor is preceded in death by her husband, Eugene, her daughter Lauren Kessler, her sisters Joan Roberts and Barbara Brown, her brother-in-law, Robert Goldberg, her nephew James Roberts and her parents Celia and Martin Brown. Eleanor is survived by her daughter Celia Zahringer of Wellington, FL, her nephew Curtis Roberts of Tuxedo Park, NY and Berwyn, PA, her step brother Stephen Brown of NYC, her sister-in-law Joan Goldberg of Delray Beach, FL, her grandchildren James Kessler, MD of Great Neck, NY, Major Peter Marks, USMC of 29 Palms, CA , George Zahringer IV, Killian Zahringer and Lauren Zahringer of NYC, her great-grandchildren Benjamin Marks and Jackson Marks of Brandon, VT and her nephews Barry Goldberg of NYC, Ira Goldberg of Newport Beach, CA, James Goldberg of Lake Worth, FL and her niece Ellen Goldberg of Easthampton, NY.