Myra Rosenberg Litman M.D. Obituary (1930 - 2023)

Myra Rosenberg Litman, MD of Leawood, Kansas died Friday, February 3, 2023. Funeral services will be held at 1 PM Monday, February 6 at the Louis Memorial Chapel, 6830 Troost Ave., Kansas City, MO. Burial will be at the Kehilath Israel Blue Ridge Cemetery. Kindly omit flowers; the family suggests charitable contributions be made to the Anti-Defamation League. Myra was born February 15, 1930 to the late Hyman and Bertha Glassman in Baltimore, Maryland and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 3years old where she and her sister were raised. She did her undergraduate degree at Temple University and started medical school there as well then transferred to UCLA Medical School and graduated in 1955 in UCLA‘s second graduating medical school class. As a Jewish woman she filled both quotas and was far ahead of her time. She became an anesthesiologist and married her late husband Alan W Rosenberg, MD, a neurosurgeon, in 1958. They lived in Woodland Hills, California and there they raised their two children, Brian and Judi. Her husband passed in 1982 and she was blessed again and married Malcolm Litman from Kansas City in 1987. She then moved to KC where she lived with her husband until his death in 2014. She travelled extensively, much of it was three couples, Myra and Mal, her sister Ruth and brother in law Jay Winthrop and their dear friends and in laws Lois and Manny Winston. She was an active member of Kehilath Israel Synogogue in Overland Park, Kansas plus was a lifelong contributor to many Jewish charities all over the world. Myra was preceded in death by her husbands Alan and Mal; her brother in law Jay and her niece Cheryl. She is survived by her daughter Judi; son Brian; her beloved sister Ruth and grandchildren Matthew, Joshua, Alex, Holden and Max along with her nieces and nephews, Mark, Stuart, Ellen and Gail.