‘She always saw the good in people’

Extremely creative, artistic and positive is how family and friends will remember Edie Brown Eisenberg.

The lifelong Five Towns resident, who lived in Woodmere and Cedarhurst died on Feb. 2 in her Woodmere home. She was 91.

A graduate of Lawrence High School, class of 1937, Eisenberg attended prestigious Cooper Union in Manhattan and became an artist and designer.

She married Daniel Brown in 1941 and they had a son, Jeffrey Peter Brown. Brown died in World War II. In 1947, she married Ben Eisenberg and they had a son, John Louis Eisenberg.

From 1952 to ’66, Eisenberg was a partner at Tanner and Brown, an award winning company known for their dioramas and point-of-purchase displays that were in Grand Central Station. The work for American Airlines and Goodyear Rubber was some of the company’s best and most famous.

“She did many commercial works and painted mural for Schneider’s Children Hospital,” said good friend Florence Schwartzberg, who added that Eisenberg created the logos for the Hewlett-Woodmere School District, the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library and Friends of the Hewlett-Woodmere Library. Eisenberg also designed and built the 18-foot-long stain glasswork that hangs above the main desk of the library.

Son Jeffrey and Eisenberg collaborated on a 30-minute documentary about art called “Egg and the Eye.” “That experience was big in shaping my life,” said Jeffrey, who is a filmmaker.

In addition to her sons, Eisenberg is survived by granddaughters Lauren Brandel, Carrie Brown, Amy Tiberio and Danielle Eisenberg, and three great grandsons.

The family will hold a private service this weekend. They request that any donation in Eisenberg’s memory be made to the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library.

“She always saw the good people, and she was extremely positive no matter how gray the day was,” Jeffrey said.