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her, my wife developed cancer, and we
had two little girls. I was going to the
hospital every day, coming home and
taking care of my girls and still going to
work every day. One day, Gerrie asked
me how I was. I answered in the same
way I answered everyone else,” he said.

“I told her that my wife was doing OK
and that she was recovering from her
surgery and that my girls were also doing
well. But Gerrie surprised me with her
response: ‘No, I want to know how you
are.’ I hadn’t even thought about how I
was until she asked that question, and I
burst into tears. And she held me.”
Gottlieb studied under Lincoln
Grossman at the Family Institute,
where the two became lifelong friends.

“She was my teacher, my mentor, my
therapist, my role model and my pre-
cious friend. And she was all of those
things every day of those 50 years,”
Gottlieb said in a tribute written about
Lincoln Grossman.

Lincoln Grossman overcame her
own battle with cancer aft er being
diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer
in her 70s.

“She thought that was it; I begged her
to fi ght it,” Lincoln said.

After beating cancer, Lincoln
Grossman went on to practice for
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another 30 years.

“She was practicing until she was
97. You couldn’t make her quit,” her
daughter said.

Lincoln Grossman was born on
Nov. 17, 1923, to Benjamin and Anne
Kovsky. She married William Lincoln
in 1946, and they had two children,
Bruce and Stephanie. Th e couple
divorced in 1969. Lincoln Grossman
married Roy Grossman Jr. in 1973; he
died in 2006.

Her daughter described her as com-
forting and fun, saying that she never
made anyone feel bad.

“She taught me that no matter how
bad I was feeling at the moment to
say ‘eh.’ [And] don’t catastrophize,”
Stephanie Lincoln said.

Aft er a fall last year in which she
was injured, Lincoln Grossman moved
into Th e Quadrangle, an assisted liv-
ing facility. However, when COVID-19
became more rampant, she moved in
with her daughter for safety and com-
fort. “We busted her out of there when
COVID hit,” Lincoln said.

Lincoln Grossman is survived by
her children, Bruce and Stephanie;
two granddaughters; two great-grand-
daughters; three step-sons, Owen,
John and Derek Grossman; and two
step-grandchildren. JE
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