Keren Abra
Aug. 13, 1942 - June 23, 2024
Keren Jean Abra (née Clark) died peacefully at home of complications related to Alzheimer’s dementia. Keren was born in Wellington, New Zealand and graduated from Victoria University with a degree in history. She had a varied career in New Zealand; teaching high school, joining the Volunteer Service Abroad council and becoming their selection and training officer. Keren was a founding member of Community Volunteers and its first national chairperson. Keren published a book "The Two-Way Street" (NZCER 1978) based on her research into why people volunteer for overseas service. In 1974 she traveled to the United Kingdom to obtain a social work credential at the University of Manchester, continuing at the University of Glasgow. Keren subsequently became a social worker in the Drumchapel Family Center. In Glasgow she met and married Bob Abra and they moved to San Francisco in 1979 with their newborn son, Graham; a second son, Lewis, was born in San Francisco. In 1987 she was overjoyed to reunite with her son Nick who had been adopted at birth into a loving family in New Zealand. Keren initially worked in the home until her sons went to school and then she took a teaching credential at San
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