Harriet Berk Deutsch, 89; Music Center Patron, Friend of the Reagans
Harriet Berk Deutsch, 89, who with her husband, the late Armand Deutsch, was a major patron of the Los Angeles Music Center, died Wednesday at the Santa Monica Health Care Center.
The cause was complications from a stroke.
In the 1960s Deutsch was among the first members of the Blue Ribbon 400 (now called the Blue Ribbon of the Music Center), a group that raises money to support the Music Center arts and educational programs.
She was also a founding member of the Colleagues, a group that raises funds to help prevent child abuse, and of the Women’s Guild at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
With her husband, Deutsch was part of the inner circle of friends who socialized with President Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan.
Born in New York City, she married film director S. Sylvan Simon and later graduated from UCLA.
She married Deutsch, her second husband, in 1951.
He died Aug. 13.
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