Mrs. Charlotte Bloomberg. Photo: Hola.com.

Announcement of the death of Charlotte R. Bloomberg was made by Mayor Michael Bloomberg Sunday, June 19, in New York. She was 102. Mrs. Bloomberg lived a life her son called “extraordinary.” He characterized her life as “a blessing, saying the Bloomberg family “recognizes how truly blessed we have been” and will “be able to carry her spirit with us forever.”

The late Mrs. Bloomberg lived a full and active life well into her 90’s. On the occasion of her 95^th birthday, during a family trip to Israel, Mayor Bloomberg honored his mother with the naming of the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Mother and Child Center at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Mayor Bloomberg, his sister Marjorie and his mother attended the dedication. Michael Bloomberg endowed other projects in her name including a children’s center and the Charlotte Bloomberg art history professorship at his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University.

Mrs. Bloomberg died at home in West Medford, Massachusetts, where she had lived for most of her life. She was an active member of Temple Shalom, home of the William and Charlotte Bloomberg Jewish Community Center, and a volunteer at the Medford Library until a few years before her death. In his 1997 autobiography, her son had described her as “a woman of liberal views and independent mind.”

Charlotte Rubens Bloomberg is survived by her son, Michael, her daughter, Marjorie Tiven, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Burial will be private. A memorial service is to be announced at a later date. Donations in her memory may be made to the Medford Public Library, 111 High Street, Medford MA 02155, Temple Shalom, 475 Winthrop Street, Medford, MA 02155 or the Medford Chapter of Hadassah, in care of Temple Shalom.