- Date Of Birth: December 5, 1916
- Date Of Death: May 21, 2007
- State: Rhode Island
Gertrude Perluck, beloved wife for sixty-three years of Herbert Perluck, Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College, passed peacefully at home in the company of her loving family on Monday, May 21. Gertrude, born on Staten Island, N.Y. on December 5, 1916, was the daughter of the late Minnie and Samuel Schulman. Gertrude graduated from Central Needle Trades (now known as the Fashion Institute of Technology) in N.Y.C., and later earned a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State College, where she had joined her husband during WW II. She had a flair for design and color, and that talent led her, early on, to create costumes for such performers as Ann Corio and Gypsy Rose Lee. She taught apparel design at RISD in Providence, R.I., and home economics at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Gertrude is best known as the trendsetting proprietor of The Mayan Shop, which she started in Providence and later operated in Watch Hill for many years. After retiring from the Mayan Shop, Gertrude took up painting and was a member of the Westbeth Artists Cooperative in Greenwich Village. Her artwork was exhibited in N.Y.C. and Mystic, Conn. She is also survived by her daughter Deborah Woodward Collins and her husband William, of Westerly, R.I.; son David Perluck and his wife Sandra Connor, of Barrington, R.I.; grandchildren Theodore Woodward , Molly and her husband David Silva, of Westerly, and Benjamin and Lucia Perluck, of Barrington, R.I.; great-grandchildren Daniel, Miranda, and Samuel Silva; and sisters Irene and Audrey, as well as many nieces and nephews.
