Social worker wanted to combat noise and promote healthy living.
Golda Fine (1898-1977) and Mollie Fine (1899-1991)
Golda Fine was born Golda Grigorievna Feinzilberg on March 2, 1898, in Odessa, Russia, to Samuel Fine and Dora Tamarkin. She and her sister Mollie, who was two years younger, immigrated to the United States in 1913.
Mollie became a librarian in Massachusetts. Golda graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Boston University and was a social worker with the New York State Department of Labor.
The sisters spoke fluent Russian but had a passion for the English language, according to their brother Roger. They never married, and each maintained an apartment in New York City.
Before her death in 1977, Golda established a fund in The New York Community Trust and specified that it promote noise control; continuity and avoidance of duplication (including in delivery of nonprofit and government services); and projects dealing with preventive measures in medicine, dentistry, law enforcement, and fire and accident prevention.
Their brother said he anticipated his sisters “would leave whatever money they had to help others.”