Edith R. Wyden | Senator's mother, 91
Edith R. Wyden, the mother of U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, has died at age 91.
Edith R. Wyden, the mother of U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, has died at age 91.
The senator said his mother, who fled Nazi Germany in 1936, died Sunday at a retirement community in Palo Alto, Calif.
Ms. Wyden was born in Koenigsberg, Germany, to George and Else Rosenow. The Jewish family first went to Iraq after leaving Nazi Germany then emigrated to the United States in 1939.
In 1947, she married Peter Wyden, whose family also fled Nazi Germany. They divorced in 1959. Peter Wyden, an author and journalist, died in 1998.
Ms. Wyden had a long career as an industrial economist, researcher, and reference librarian. She published papers on economic and industrial development while working at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif.
- AP