Blanche Braunstein (Teacher)

History & American Field Service Advisor

Mrs. Blanche Braunstein

by Robert Bluman (CW Class of ’73)
Mrs. Blanche Braunstein’s death was especially sad to me. I loved her. Her husband divorced her after which she moved to Las Vegas to live near her elderly parent. I think she moved there about 1985. She remained in Las Vegas after her Mom died and Blanche then died around 1992. She is buried in Las Vegas.

Blanche was born in 1920 and raised by a very old historical Jewish family from the Hamilton, Ohio, area. I remember going to her luxurious, sprawling brick ranch house after school one afternoon…perhaps on Tennyson Drive. Her house was only four or five years old then. Blanche answered the door in her long, silky, wildly-printed caftan, and she majestically glided through the house with me. She reminded me of a queen or nobility; I loved it!