Retirement
After retirement, Avram and her husband moved to California, Maryland. The couple remained active through St. Mary's College, where Henriette often arranged for Library of Congress officials to be guest speakers.
After Herbert, her husband of sixty-four years, died in their home on January 15, 2006, Henriette relocated to Florida. She died of cancer at Miami’s Baptist Hospital on April 22, just three months after the death of her husband. She was 86 years old. Avram once said, “I’d like to be remembered as a good manager, as having done something that was significant in this world, of service to others.” Her energetic, diplomatic leadership and remarkable contribution to automation and bibliographic control are proof that she achieved this goal. Though proud of her accomplishments, Avram’s famous drive never quit. “We must not sit back and be satisfied, though,” she said, “there is much more to do.”
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