ANDERSON, Eric Blair

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Age 92, of Lincoln, MA passed away on October 30, 2022. Judith had celebrated 67 years of marriage to Károly Balogh, M.D.

Dr. Judith Balogh was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a young child, Judith excelled in skating and won prestigious national competitions in gymnastics. After the early death of her father, Judith moved with her mother to the countryside to avoid the ravages of World War II. In 1954, Judith graduated from Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest. While in medical school, she met Károly Balogh. They were married in January 1955. Shortly after the October 1956 Soviet invasion, Judith and Károly escaped the communist occupation by fleeing separately to Austria. Successfully reuniting in Vienna, the young doctor couple traveled to the United States under a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and posting at the Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, LA. After a year in New Orleans, Judith and Károly packed their VW bug and moved to Boston, MA. They first lived in Boston, then moved to Cambridge and started a family. They settled in 1971 in Lincoln, MA where they raised their children and have lived since.

Dr. Judith Balogh completed her training as chief resident in psychiatry at Boston City Hospital in 1962, then was on the staff of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and maintained a private practice. For ten years, she served as chief of Pediatric Psychiatry at Cambridge City Hospital.

Judith and Károly have three children, Adam, Peter, and Anna.

Judith made raising her family a priority. Judith and Károly have three grandchildren, Charlotte, Eva, and Alexander. Judith and Károly shared their athletic passions and love of the outdoors with their children and grandchildren, including skiing as regular season ticket holders for many years at Pleasant Mountain in Maine.

Judith was passionate about collecting and reading books and newspaper articles on a multitude of subjects and filled stacks of notebooks with her own thoughts, analysis, and story ideas. Judith was interviewed as part of the Hungarian 1956 Memory Project. www.memoryproject.online/ gyongypaly-balogh-judit/

A Graveside Service for family and local friends was held on Friday, November 4th at the Lincoln Cemetery. A Celebration of Life for the family and friends will be held at a future date.

The Balogh family wishes to acknowledge their gratitude to the staff at the Waltham Crossing Benchmark facility and Caring Hospice Services where Judith spent her final days in their compassionate care.

In lieu of flowers, please consider honoring the memory of Dr. Judith G. Balogh with a donation to the BrightFocus Foundation’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research fund (www.support. brightfocus.org, 22512 Gateway Center Drive, Clarksburg, MD 20871); Special Olympics (www.specialolympicsma. org, 512 Forest St., Marlborough, MA 01752); or, Reach Out and Read (www. reachoutandread.org 89 South St.,

Suite. 201, Boston, MA 02111.

For Judith’s online guestbook, please visit www.DeeFuneralHome.com