Dr. Irwin R Danziger Obituary (2020)

Dr. Irwin Danziger, a pediatrician and long-time resident of New City passed away on August 9, 2020, in Beaufort, South Carolina at age 91 after a short illness. Dr. Danziger retired from his New City practice in 2007 and moved to Florida with his wife Barbara who passed away in 2012. Dr. Danziger then moved to South Carolina where he spent his last years living near his daughter. He is survived by his daughter, Susan Disher, his son, a dentist in Rockand County, Dr. Laurence Danziger and his grandchildren, Alexandra and Matthew. Dr. Danziger graduated from New York Medical College with a residency in pediatrics at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He and Barbara married just before induction into the US Navy as a ship's physician. He often spoke of his adventures aboard an icebreaker at the North Pole when he was stationed in Seattle. His next stop was at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, where he delivered many babies to US Marine couples in one year. He and Barbara returned to New York with a newborn daughter. Shortly after completing his residency, he and his family moved to New City to open a pediatrics practice in a rapidly growing county that had few pediatricians. He remained in private practice for 48 years taking care of two and sometimes three generations of children. He loved what he did and he was a particulary curious and inquisitive man. He spent his entire life looking to learn. Beyond his passion for pediatrics, he had many interests throughout his life. He was an avid photographer and early computer enthusiast. He enjoyed understanding how things work and had enormous patience for complexity, detail and diagnostics. These interests kept him active as he aged and he was always busy thinking up new ways to make things easier or better. He was a compassionate and empathetic man who was very much loved and he will be very missed.