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Rose Friedman Dies
By Bradley Vasoli, The Bulletin
Rose Friedman, widow of renowned economist Milton Friedman, passed away in Washington, D.C. today.
Records do not clearly indicate her date of birth, but she was deemed to have been 98. Her husband passed away in November 2006.
Education experts in Pennsylvania and beyond lauded the work she and her late husband performed to popularize efforts to allow parents to choose schools for their children.
“Rose Friedman was an extremely powerful voice in promotion of freedom. In addition to being a vocal supporter of human liberty, her work helped to discredit government management of the economy,” Andrew T. LeFevre, executive director of the Harrisburg-based REACH Foundation, said in a statement. “Parental choice in education for all students in America was a lifelong goal of Rose, as well as of her late husband, Dr. Milton Friedman, often nicknamed the Father of School Choice. We will strive to fulfill her vision that all parents in Pennsylvania will have the ability and means to choose a school that best fits for their child.”
Mrs. Friedman coauthored three books with her husband: the free-market economics works Free to Choose and Tyranny of the Status Quo as well as the memoir Two Lucky People.
Bradley Vasoli can be reached at bvasoli@thebulletin.us
Records do not clearly indicate her date of birth, but she was deemed to have been 98. Her husband passed away in November 2006.
Education experts in Pennsylvania and beyond lauded the work she and her late husband performed to popularize efforts to allow parents to choose schools for their children.
“Rose Friedman was an extremely powerful voice in promotion of freedom. In addition to being a vocal supporter of human liberty, her work helped to discredit government management of the economy,” Andrew T. LeFevre, executive director of the Harrisburg-based REACH Foundation, said in a statement. “Parental choice in education for all students in America was a lifelong goal of Rose, as well as of her late husband, Dr. Milton Friedman, often nicknamed the Father of School Choice. We will strive to fulfill her vision that all parents in Pennsylvania will have the ability and means to choose a school that best fits for their child.”
Mrs. Friedman coauthored three books with her husband: the free-market economics works Free to Choose and Tyranny of the Status Quo as well as the memoir Two Lucky People.
Bradley Vasoli can be reached at bvasoli@thebulletin.us
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