Judith (Judy) A. Toff Gensib, an employee in Penn’s department of Dining Services, died on October 11, 2020. She was 86.

Born in Philadelphia in 1934, Ms. Gensib joined Penn’s staff in 1985 as a part-time employee in Hospitality/Dining Services (today known as Penn Dining). She rose through the ranks until retiring from Penn in 1999. While at Penn, Ms. Gensib left an indelible mark on her coworkers. “Judy, quite frankly, was one of the nicest human beings ever to grace planet Earth,” says Adam Sherr, Penn’s lead financial analyst and a former colleague of Ms. Gensib’s in Dining Services. “She was the Assistant Manager in the Dining Services Office when I started working there, as a 17-year old freshman, in 1986. And throughout the next 12+ years, she was a formative person in my growth and development as a person and as a professional. I cannot count the number of life lessons she graced me with, in her kind and caring way.”

In 1999, Ms. Gensib survived a battle with leukemia thanks to a bone marrow transplant from her twin sister. Later in her life, she continued to nurture her family and to be an active member of her synagogue, Temple Emanuel of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. 

Ms. Gensib is survived by her husband Jack, children Carl (Gayle), Janet (John Osborne), and Riva (Michael Johnson), twin sister Phyllis Mondress, younger sister Zelda Kresloff, daughter-in-law JoAnn Gensib, and grandchildren Denali, Johnny, Rachel, Julia, Elyssa, Ellis, and Max. A graveside service was held on October 13, 2020. Contributions in Ms. Gensib’s memory can be made to any leukemia research fund.