soul

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papers; she commissioned anti-war
billboards and held fundraisers to
elect anti-war candidates. She was
in the fray.
“During those years, Mom taught
me that you should stand up for
what you believe, and she led by
example.”
Daughter Ann used a string of
adjectives — whimsical, imperious,
hilarious, loyal, cranky, inimitable —
to describe her mother.
“That was Madge, my wonderful,
beloved mother,” she said during her
eulogy. “Mom wasn’t just whimsical
and cranky, she was present, sup-
portive and wise. She was constantly
encouraging.”
Her daughter also talked of her
mother’s great capacity for friend-
ship.
“As an only child, she depended
on her friendships … She was always
there for her women friends, on
good days or bad; she laughed and
cried with people. She showed up.”
In describing her parents’ relation-
ship, Ann said that her mother was
her own person and her father’s true

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complement. In all their endeav-
ors, Ann said, her father provided
resources and connections, but her
mother was the “curator of their
world.”
“Mom was not a simple person,”
Ann said in closing. “She was a
woman as complex and richly lay-
ered as the chocolate desserts she
loved. Perhaps not every spoonful
was equally delicious, but the whole
was so rewarding that nobody could
resist.”
Madeleine Berman is survived
by her son, Dr. Jonathan (Nicky)
Berman of Boulder, Colo., daugh-
ter, Ann (Daniel Feld) Berman of
New York, and three grandchildren,
Laurence, Sara and Max. Madge was
the daughter of the late Elizabeth
and Harry Brodie.
Contributions may be made to the
Michigan Humane Society, 30300
Telegraph Road, Suite 220, Bingham
Farms, MI 48025. (248) 283-1000.
michiganhumane.org. Interment
was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman
Chapel. •

A Man For The People

N

orman Robert
Keane, 76, was
born Sept. 30,
1941, and passed away
Feb. 16, 2018.
He was the Jewish
Family Service CEO from
1998-2011.
He had moved to
Detroit for the job at JFS
with his wife, Mary, who
became the executive
Keane
director of Hebrew Free
Loan. They both retired
in the fall of 2011 and returned to
Cleveland to be with their family.
In retirement, Norm continued to
do what he did while a professional,
helping people and spending lots of
time with his beloved wife and ador-
ing their three granddaughters.
Prior to his work in Detroit, Norm
started his post-M.S.W. career at the
Jewish Family Service in Cleveland,
working his way up to an executive
there. The pair then moved to Tucson,
Ariz., where Norm was a nursing
home administrator before becoming
executive director of Jewish Children
and Family Services-Tucson.
His next post was leading the Jewish
Family and Community Services of
Pittsburgh and then on to Detroit.
He helped transform Jewish Family
Service in Detroit into a true modern
multi-service organization, adding

lots of essential services
and moving it into the cur-
rent Orley Family Building
in West Bloomfield.
He was an old-fashioned
social worker who never
forgot what the profes-
sion was all about, always
remembering his early
work as an outreach work-
er, truly helping people
who needed a hand.
Norm was also a vision-
ary man who knew how to
move things forward with colleagues,
his board and the agency’s stakehold-
ers.
Mr. Keane was the beloved hus-
band of Mary Keane (nee Sarro);
devoted father of Sam Keane of
South Carolina and Richard (Dr.
Jennifer) Cochran; loving grandfather
of Sophie, Issy and Josie; dear brother
of Judy Fertel and the late Marlene
Miller; cherished uncle and great-
uncle.
Services were held in the Mayfield
Mausoleum, 2749 Mayfield Road,
Cleveland Hts., Ohio. Contributions
are suggested to the Keane
Community Crisis Fund, c/o Jewish
Family Service of Metro Detroit
(www.jfsdetroit.org). Arrangements
under the direction of Berkowitz-
Kumin-Bookatz Memorial Chapel,
(800) 448-2210. •

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