Laurie (Eleonore Barbara) Gottlieb

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Laurie Gottlieb, a leading photojournalist in the 1970s, died at UCLA Medical Center on January 23 after suffering a series of strokes. Her family was at her bedside. She was 74. Laurie wrote and photographed numerous articles on celebrities, and focused on interesting furniture, shops, doctors’ offices and homes for the Los Angeles Times Home magazine, House Beautiful, Los Angeles Magazine and Family Circle. She wrote about the essence of people. As a regular contributing editor for Home Magazine, Laurie wrote a popular column called ‘All Together.’ She featured families that did things collectively, whether it was a family that rode bikes together or acted together. She made everyone feel at ease. Laurie featured many families and stores in Pacific Palisades. Her favorite shop here, while she was working, was Artisinians, owned by Velma and Buddy Ebsen. Velma would often roll out the red carpet for Laurie and serve her tea and cakes. Even though Laurie lived in Brentwood, the Palisades was her home away from home. She owned a home here for 35 years and leased it, always treating her tenants with special care. The Palisadian-Post was her favorite paper; every Thursday her face would light up when she had the Post in her hands. To all who knew her, Laurie had a unique style and always spoke from the heart. She was kind and loving and enjoyed a good laugh. She was full of delight at everything, a lover of beauty, with a warm, graceful smile. She always tried to make anyone she was with feel important. She was very creative in how she saw and described everything. She was a gourmet cook, and loved to sew. At Home Magazine from 1969 to 1981, Laurie produced features on celebrities such as Ron Howard, Dyan Cannon, Florence Henderson, Jean Stapleton, Gene Kelly, the Smothers Brothers, Sandy Duncan, Henry Winkler, Merlin Olsen, Rosey Grier, Tommy Hawkins, Sally Struthers and Bea Arthur. Laurie, who loved being a homemaker just as much as she enjoyed working, found a way to balance family life and career. In 1976, the Los Angeles Bicentennial Committee commissioned an artist to create a quilt featuring squares designed by 29 celebrities. Laurie’s coverage of the Celebrity Bicentennial Quilt for various media outlets brought her to the forefront of the national Bicentennial celebration. Laurie was born on June 6, 1938 in Vienna, Austria, the only daughter of Hansi and Willy Geber. When she was just a baby, she and her mother barely escaped German-occupied Austria and were able to come to America, first landing in New York. Her father had a much more difficult escape route, swimming in darkness across a river and staying in Switzerland for years until they could all be reunited. The family came to Los Angeles in 1950, where Laurie attended Hollywood High and UCLA, graduating with a degree in anthropology in 1961. Her journalism career started when she joined the Daily Bruin. Laurie was 16 when she met her future husband Peter, a nuclear physicist, at a Christmas Eve party in Los Angeles. They were married in 1957. Laurie is survived by her husband Peter; children Michael (wife Tracy) of San Juan Capistrano, Gabrielle of Pacific Palisades and James (wife Lea) of Del Mar; and grandchildren Peter, Kevin, Eric and Madison. Services will be held at Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park on February 16 at 11 a.m. Monsignor Liam Kidney of Corpus Christi Church, whom Laurie had known since his early days as an ordained priest, will preside. Barbara Gilbert, a family friend, will be singing, accompanied at the piano by her husband, Arthur. Donations in Laurie’s name may be made to Corpus Christi Church.

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Former writer for Times’ Home magazine

Laurie Gottlieb, 74, who wrote for Home magazine in the Sunday Los Angeles Times for more than a decade, died Jan. 23 of complications from a stroke at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, according to her son, Mike Gottlieb.

Between 1969 and 1981, Gottlieb reported regularly on interior design and home decor for the weekly lifestyle publication. She also wrote a popular weekly column for Home called “All Together,” which detailed the lifestyles of prominent and notable local families.

She once interviewed a family that ran one of the largest pig farms in California, in Sylmar. She spoke to a chimney sweep, a family of circus performers and the operator of a Goodyear blimp. Her subjects also included former Lakers player Tom Hawkins and comedian Tim Conway.

Gottlieb especially enjoyed writing the columns “because I firmly believe that the family unit is very much alive and well,” she told Home magazine in 1975.

She was born Laurie Geber in 1938 in Vienna. With her mother, she narrowly escaped German-occupied Austria and grew up in Los Angeles. She earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from UCLA.

In 1958, she married her high school sweetheart, Peter Gottlieb, and began writing for The Times when she was 31.