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Menlo leader ‘Liz’ Goldberg dies at 69
By Jane Knoerle
Almanac Lifestyles Editor
Amemorial service will
be held at 1:30 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 24, at
Peninsula Temple Sholom,
1655 Sebastian Drive in Burlingame,
for Elizabeth “Liz”
Goldberg of Redwood City.
Ms. Goldberg died at home
Sept 13 after a long battle with
cancer. She was 69.
Ms. Goldberg was born
in St. Paul, Minnesota, and
moved to California when she
was 8 years old. She attended
UC Berkeley, where she met
her husband, Peter. They were
preparing to celebrate 50 years
of marriage this November.
Blessed with movie-star good
looks and a sense of style, Ms.
Goldberg cut quite a swath on
the local scene when she and
her husband moved to Menlo
Park in 1969. Proving she had
brains as well as beauty, she
served as the first woman president
of the Sharon Heights
Homeowners Association.
She soon invaded the “old boy
network” of city politics and
organized Menlo Park’s Centennial
celebration in 1974. She
served as president of the Menlo
Park Chamber of Commerce
in 1976-77 and as executive
vice president of the chamber
from 1985 to 1989. She helped
create the first “Connoisseur’s
Market,” Menlo Park’s annual
street fair.
“Liz” Goldberg at age 45
Ms. Goldberg also spent six
years as marketing director of
the Menlo Management Co.,
resigning to take the executive
position at the Chamber
of Commerce.
When Ms. Goldberg
received a Golden Acorn
Award from the Menlo Park
Chamber of Commerce in
1992, master of ceremonies
Tormey Ward recalled, “She
lit a fire under the business
community.”
Her family recalls that Ms.
Goldberg was “extremely caring
and generous with her
time” for those diagnosed
with cancer, as she first was in
1980. She served as president
and longtime board member
of the Cancer Support Center
of Menlo Park. She also
served as president of the
Community Breast Health
Project of Palo Alto.
In a 1984 article in the
Almanac, Ms. Goldberg talked
about her battle with breast
cancer, which she fought suc-
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cessfully. At the time she said
her mother had died of cancer
at age 38, and she knew she
had a genetic predisposition
toward the disease.
“By the time I got cancer, I
was ready for it,” she said. She
lauded the Cancer Support
Center, then located at Vallombrosa
Conference Center,
as “a place that was teaching
what I essentially had to do
on my own.”
In later years Ms. Goldberg
was also a volunteer for both
Gilda’s Club and the Desert
Cancer Foundation of Palm
Desert. For nearly 30 years,
she counseled hundreds of
people diagnosed with cancer,
including relatives, friends,
and patients of the organizations
she served, or sometimes
strangers referred to her by
friends, say family members.
Ms. Goldberg enjoyed golf,
playing at Peninsula Golf and
Country Club, tennis, and
bridge, and loved to travel
abroad, say family members.
The Goldbergs were members
of Ladera Oaks Swim & Tennis
Club when they lived in
Menlo Park. She was also an
expert needlewoman and at
one time taught needlepoint
to friends.
She is survived by her husband,
Peter, sons Brad and
Doug, and five grandsons.
The family prefers charitable
donations to Stop Cancer at
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