Jeanne W Eisenstadt

Born in DeKalb County, Illinois to Goodwin and Gladys (Hipple) Watson, Jeanne grew up in and around New York City. In 1958, in Chicago, she married Bertram J. Eisenstadt of the Bronx, New York. He taught mathematics at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and they lived for many years in Oak Park, Michigan. They moved to Loveland in 2000 to be closer to their daughter and her family.

Jeanne held academic degrees from Antioch College, Columbia University, and the University of Michigan; she worked on research projects at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and Wayne State University. In 1958 she co-authored with Ronald Lippitt and Bruce Westley the first book to provide a close examination of the processes of planned change. In 2015, drawing on her earlier work in sociability, she contributed a chapter to David Riesman’s Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy, edited by Kerr, Harden and Aldredge. In later years she retired from the field of social psychology, and worked with the East Michigan Environmental Action Council, an activist environmental organization.

In Loveland, Jeanne joined The Loveland Connection, the Larimer County League of Women Voters, and for a while was active in the bridge group of the Loveland Single Seniors. She enjoyed the many friends she met through these organizations and found Loveland to be a very welcoming place to live.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Sharon and James LaTourrette, and grandchildren Sandy and Kathy LaTourrette, all of Loveland; her sister, Patricia Renshaw, of Hanover, New Hampshire, and her brother, Walter Watson, of Setauket, Long Island, New York.

Memorial donations may be made to the Food Bank of Larimer County or the Western Environmental Law Center, Durango.