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 WENDY ADLER 1950-2022
Wendy Adler, aged 72, of Felton, California, passed away in her home on November 4, 2022, from complications of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Wendy was born on July 18, 1950, in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1968 and attended Denison University (Granville, OH) and Yale University before earning her BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1975.
Theater was Wendy’s passion from an early age. She participated in countless school and community productions in the Cleveland area in her younger years. As an adult, she directed plays and worked in supportive administrative roles for several theater companies, including the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Shakespeare Santa Cruz program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before
retirement, Wendy worked in accounting for the non-profit Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County.
She loved travel adventures ― most recently, she enjoyed trips to Greenland, Africa, Scotland, Greece, and Switzerland. She avidly researched family genealogy and was committed to maintaining family connections. She loved her dogs, roller coasters, manatees, her childhood camp, Draegers hot fudge sauce, and corned beef sandwiches from Jacks Delicatessen, which she visited whenever she came home to Cleveland. And she loved words, the more unusual the better. Her inquisitive mind led her to take deep dives on the internet to find out more about all sorts of things and places that sparked her curiosity.
Resolutely independent to the end, she left us as she lived― on her own terms, with plans for her future. Her indomitable spirit will be missed. Wendy was predeceased by her mother, Deborah Burton Adler, in 2017, and her father, Wallace Adler, in 2021. She is survived by her sisters, June Adler Vail, of Brunswick, Maine and Christine Adler Phillips, of Claremont, California; a niece, Sri Charlesworth; two nephews, Benjamin
Vail and Nicholas Vail; and nine great-nieces and great-nephews. She is also survived by her husband, Stephen Siegel, from whom she was separated.
Interment will be in the family plot at Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, in
spring 2023. Details of a celebration of Wendy’s life will be announced later.
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Roderick Adams
I join with all of my classmates in adding my sympathies and condolences on the passing of Wendy. We were in the same homeroom(names ending in "A"), so I saw her every morning. My favorite memory was doing the morning announcements with Wendy on Thursday mmornings. She WAS an actress. She made the task fun and kept it light. I think she made many of our reunions too. May she rest in peace and light perpetual shine upon her.
Sandra Stark (Carlson)
I liked Wendy. She was always so kind. Wish we would have had contact through the years. She will be missed by those who knew her.
Kathleen Baribault (Kida)
Sad to hear of Wendy's passing. She and I were in the same homeroom in high school. I can picture her as always smiling and full of energy - always kind of in motion. So interesting to see how her life developed and to hear of all her accomplishments. It was a moving tribute. RIP Wendy!
Marc Morgenstern
Wendy was the ultimate blythe spirit. In high school I got to hang out with the theater people from Shaker and Cleveland Heights because they were all friends of Wendy, and any friend of Wendy's.....
Freshman year at college I missed her and that cohort. And then, miracle of miracles, my sophomore year she transferred to where I was! And, once again, I. got to periodically help read her lines from plays she was preparing for, PLUS hang out with all the cool theater people.
I laughed a lot with her, and I learned even more. She is missed.
Anna Marie Ginn
Wendy was one of my best friends in junior high. She dated my friend John Ostrum. When she broke her leg we called her 'hop along' and I got to carry her books between classes. Theater was her love even then. She was quirky and energetic and made the world and my world more interesting. Wendy you are missed.
Bonnie Shakley (Maitlen)
Like everyone else, I was saddened to hear about Wendy. She was my around the corner friend and I enjoyed spending time with her. She was very fun and witty. Like others, I am sorry we lost touch! Bonnie Shakley
Nan Bonfils
Such a wonderful friend, especially in junior high. Wendy and I got into all sorts of trouble doing some reckless things in her neighborhood. She lived close to Byron and when we became freinds in junior high I often road my bike from Sussex to her house. I remember going to Washington DC with her and getting into trouble there too. She was the most wild woman I had ever met back then. But so very kind to everyone, so warm and generous. Her laugh was bold and infectious. Yes, Anna, I remember when she broke her leg. And I remember hanging out on the edges of the the theater crowd, no longer in her closest circle but you did not have to be close to be lifted by her fierce devotion. It seems that devotion saw her through. Remarkable.
Milan Tiff
Sorry to hear about Wendy. When I lived in Monterey, California, word about a one man Art Show I was having at the Museum of Art got out around the Bay. At the opening, Wendy showed up. Said, " I was your classmate at Shaker " we talked about everything but Art. She was a joy to speak too.
Margaret Warburton (Kelling)
So sorry to hear of Wendy's passing- we were neighborhood friends in elemtary school. Had hopef to see her at 50th reunion, but didn't. Sympathy to her family and friends. RIP old friend
James S. Crisp
Wendy was a force and one of the smartest people I knew. We were close frinds in high school because of the theatre. She was a joy and an inspiration. She always seemed older and wiser than the rest of us. Many years went by, and through the miracle of internet and facebook, we reconnected a few years ago. We had a great connection with many long chats and so many shared memoreis of Shaker and the people we knew. We had both lived long professional lives in the theatre, so we had much to talk about. With only our connection via e-mail and f/b, I grew to consider her a close friend again. Her death came as a sudden and terrible shock. We'd been in touch shortly before. I miss her still. And have great memoreis of our Shaker days. RIP dear Wendy.