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...Bertha B. Cohen, millionaires , lies buried 30 miles south of her old Cambridge real estate empire on a quiet hill in Sharon Memorial Park. She lies there because her lawyer, Maurice Simon, "liked the view...
...Bertha Cohen died five years ago, with over $1 million in her checking account. She owned property and stocks totaling almost $3 million. Her properties included such familiar landmarks as the Cambridge Tower of Pizza, Cahaly's Delicatessen, University Typewriter Co. and Margaret's Dress Shop...
Born in 1898, Cohen came to Boston in 1905 and began work as an assistant in a millinery shop in Roxbury. Shortly afterward, she opened her own shop, dubbed "Mademoiselle Bertha...
...Bertha's hat business must have done well, because by 1920 she had purchased her first building, Strathcona Hall, located at 992 Memorial Drive...
...Bertha never posed for any photographs, and none of her relatives have any pictures. She kept to herself, never married, and bore no children. And she died without a will, leaving a complicated probate mess for her distant relatives to untangle...