Florine Boxer
Longtime Denver teacher Florine Boxer died on March 26, 2022. She was 96. A service was held on March 28 at Temple Emanuel Cemetery, officiated by Rabbi Joseph Black. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements.
Mrs. Boxer was born on Dec. 15, 1925 in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she was the only Jewish child in grade school and high school. She attended Women’s College at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and Goucher College in Baltimore, Md.
In 1951, Mrs. Boxer, then a teacher in the Baltimore public school system, married Phillip Boxer. They moved from Baltimore to Denver, where Mr. Boxer’s family owned a restaurant, and remained a couple until Dr. Boxer’s passing in January, 2014.
Mrs. Boxer was one of the first Operation Head Start teachers in Denver, and was an educator in the Denver area until her retirement in 1981.
“She made a lot of home visits with parents,” said Mrs. Boxer’s daughter, Sarah Boxer. “It was a very successful program.”
“Education was absolutely the primary thing in our family,” continued Sarah Boxer, who noted: “Education jobs were of the more common jobs for women in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Perhaps if she was in a different era, she might have become an architect or designer.
“She loved art.”
Survivors include children Susan Boxer and Sarah (Harry Cooper) Boxer; and one grandson, Julius Boxer-Cooper.
Contributions may be made to the Friends of Chamber Music.
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