Klein, Nancy Helen Cohen Hahn, 20 August 1939 – 8 November 2025. Loving wife of Jerry E. Klein and of the late Rabbi Harold D. Hahn of Rockdale Temple; daughter of the late Dr. Abraham L. Cohen and the late Barbara Zebrack Cohen Mellen of Detroit, Michigan; devoted mother of the late Melanie Hahn Roche (James) of the Hague, Netherlands, and of Barbara M. Hahn of Lubbock, Texas; sister of the late I. William “Bill” Cohen and Recia “Ricki” Herbstman Cohen of Novi, Michigan; stepmother of Amy Klein of Cincinnati and Bradley Klein (Danielle Gustafson) of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and of the late Margy Klein; sister-in-law of Lois Klein Polasky of Cincinnati; also survived by cousin Susan Katz and numerous other cousins, nieces and nephews.
Graduate of Brandeis University and the University of Chicago; co-author (with Jonathan Sarna) of “The Jews of Cincinnati,” and director emeritus of the American Jewish Committee of Cincinnati and the Melton Mini-School in Adult Jewish Learning. She loved poetry. She was famous for her smile, and for remembering everybody’s name — and everybody’s pet.
Memorial service at Rockdale Temple, 8501 Ridge Road, on Thursday 13 November at 11 a.m. Memorials to Rockdale Temple or charity of choice. Weil’s Funeral Home serving the family.
