Mrs Freda L Ober

November 29, 1910 - December 29, 2016

Lenox – Oldest resident of Lenox, MA It has been announced by her son Charles that Freda L. Ober, age 106 years old died peacefully, while resting, at her home at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center in Lenox, MA on December 29, 2016. Born Freda Levine, in Boston, Mass. on November 29, 1910, she was educated in Boston. After marriage to Boston Attorney Emil Ober and the birth of a child, the family moved to the Berkshires in 1940. Over the next seventy-six years she lived successively in the towns and city of Adams, North Adams, Williamstown for forty-three years, and then for the last sixteen years at Kimball Farms in Lenox. Unafraid and honest, she was an intelligent, independent, and an always interesting woman as all who knew her would readily attest too. Among her interests she had abiding ones in travel, music, and politics. She was a longtime member of the Williamstown Democratic Town Committee, attended Tanglewood regularly for many years, and traveled extensively in her younger years. Predeceased by her husband, Emil and by her daughter, Louise, she leaves her son, Charles. Arrangements are by the Roche Funeral Home in Lenox, Mass. In accordance with her wishes there will be no calling hours or services. Interment in a family plot will be in Sharon Memorial Park in Sharon, Mass. She will be greatly missed.