Susette S. Tauber

Susette (Susi) Tauber, 93, passed away on July 8, 2023. She was born on July 12, 1929, in Munich, Germany.

Susette and her family were forced to flee Germany in 1938 and became stateless refugees in Shanghai, China. There she worked through her teenage years to help support her family. She married Alex (Salo) Tauber in 1946, and the next year they were sent to Sosua, Dominican Republic, again as refugees. In 1959 they and their two daughters, Shirley and Suzanne, were resettled in the U.S., in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Susette worked as a trilingual secretary and bookkeeper in Sosua, and in the U.S. she was a successful real estate broker with Greenridge Realty, a job she relished.

Susette will be missed by her family. She is survived by her daughters, Shirley Tauber-Nguyen (Anh) and Suzanne M. Tauber; her grandsons, Dr. David Nguyen (Joleen) and Joseph Nguyen; her great granddaughter, Leila; her sister, Sonja Rosenbaum; and nieces, nephews, and cousins.

A graveside service will be held at Oak Hill Cemetery at 3 p.m. on Monday, July 10. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Humane Society or the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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