Carol Eber, dedicated teacher, dies at 68

Carol Eber passed away on Jan. 18 at Summit Park Nursing Home in Pomona, N.Y. She was 68-years-old.

Ms. Eber was a committed teacher from the start of her tenure at C.E.S. 11 in the south Bronx, where she began working in 1986. She retired from full-time teaching in June 2002, ready to start the next phase of her life. However, vascular dementia disrupted and eventually ended those plans.

Ms. Eber was born on May 4, 1945 in Demarest, N.J. to Helen and Robert Pollock. The Pollocks were professional musicians and music teachers in northern New Jersey. Robert Pollock was stationed in Germany, fighting in World War II the day Ms. Eber was born.

Ms. Eber graduated with honors from Northern Valley High School in 1963. As a teenager she taught Bible study at the Demarest Baptist Church and served as a camp counselor at Camp Lebanon in New Jersey. After graduating from Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1967, she worked for more than a dozen years in New York City’s welfare and court systems.

Ms. Eber married Stuart Eber on Father’s Day in 1973. The couple had two sons, David and Michael.

In 1979, Ms. Eber and her family moved to Riverdale, where she volunteered for the P.S. 81 Parents’ Association, the Riverdale Neighborhood House and served as a member of the 5601 Riverdale Ave. Co-op Board.

Ms. Eber is survived by her husband and their sons along with their grandsons Mason, Chase and Andrew.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in Carol’s memory to the American Alzheimer’s Association or Habitat for Humanity.