Evelyn Spiegler made a career as a fund-raiser in the nonprofit sector in both international relations and the health care field, and after her retirement from New York University Medical Center in 1995 divided her time between Montauk and Forest Hills, Queens.
In Montauk, she was the secretary for the Montauk Artists Association and the Culloden Shores Homeowners Association. She also represented her election district on the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee.
After several years of declining health with Parkinson’s disease, she died at home in Forest Hills on Saturday. She was 94.
Ms. Spiegler was born in Leipzig, Germany, on Feb. 25, 1928, to Josef Wolf Weiser and the former Emmy Muenze. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, she was enrolled in the Ephraim Carlebach School until the age of 10, when her family moved to Paris just a few months before Kristallnacht. With the outbreak of World War II, the family moved to a remote fishing village on the Brittany coast, and then, in early 1940, a few years before the German occupation of France, they obtained United States immigration visas and sailed for New York.
Ms. Spiegler attended public schools in France and later in New York and went on to graduate from Cooper Union in the city.
She was married to Charles G. Spiegler, an English teacher and high school administrator in New York. He died before her. Their son, George Benjamin Spiegler, lives in Manhattan.
Ms. Spiegler also leaves many cousins with whom she was close, among them David Weiser of Westbury, Claudia Koziol of Wayne, N.J., and their children, and Jason Kerner of Brooklyn.
Contributions in her memory have been suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 2616, East Hampton 11937, or the Leo Baeck Institute, online at lbi.org or at 15 West 16th Street, New York 10011.
A graveside service was held yesterday at Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus, N.J., with Rabbi Paulette Posner officiating.
