Purpose of the Fund

The Rabin Family Memorial Endowment Fund will help wherever the community?s needs are the greatest, today and in the years to come.

Anne Simon Rabin

Cathy Rabin

Biographies

Anne Simon was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in 1919. Her first husband, Murray Weiss, died during World War II, leaving Anne with an infant daughter. Showing remarkable courage, Anne took her daughter cross-country to California and started anew. Several years later she met and then married Bernard Rabin. They settled in the San Fernando Valley and had two more children. By 1958 their troubled marriage had ended in divorce and Bernard, suffering psychological problems, committed suicide shortly thereafter.

Faced with raising three children alone, Anne moved her family to an apartment and struggled to support them on a secretary's salary. Despite the constant fear of not being able to make ends meet, she provided a stable, values-conscious and loving home for her kids, and kept them focused on their studies. She succumbed to complications of the disease scleroderma at age 63. Despite a very tough life, she never compromised her values and, by example, taught us that we neither had to accept mediocrity nor surrender our goals.

Born in 1955, Cathy Rabin was a recognized academic, a successful development executive in the film industry and a brilliant writer. She was absolutely unique: independent, brilliant, loyal to her friends, stubborn, emotional, generous, eccentric and very funny. She was also deeply troubled. She died far too soon, by her own hand, in 2007.