- Date Of Birth: December 1, 1924
- Date Of Death: April 16, 2017
- State: Maryland
Hope Herzog Stewart died on Easter Sunday 2017 in hospice in Columbia, MD, at the age of 92 after a brief illness. Hope Herzog was born in Troy, NY, on December 1, 1924. Her parents divorced when she was six, and she was raised by her mother, Alice Blackburn Herzog, with assistance from her maternal grandparents and aunts and uncles. As a child, Hope attended the Emma Willard School, and graduated from Troy High School in 1941. She loved reading, and counted dancing as one of her favorite activities as a young woman; she would recount that she and her friends and dates would dance on her mother’s living room rugs until the rugs were totally worn. Upon graduation from Russell Sage College (Class of 1945) she worked as a secretary at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she met a graduate student named Gilbert Henry Stewart, Jr. Hope and Gil were married on June 18, 1949, and settled in Delaware Township, NJ, while Gil worked for RCA in Camden.
