Myra's husband, Frederick R. Pinter, died on 4 September 1965 in Manhattan, New York City, at age 65. He had turned 65 only nine days earlier, on 26 August 1965. He was born in 1900 in Neulengbach, Lower Austria.
The death record: the New York City death index for 1965 lists PINTER FREDERI (the name is cut short in the index), age 65, died 9/4/1965, borough M (Manhattan), certificate number 18267.
How we know it is him: Mary Zimbalist's memoirs, In the Presence of Krishnamurti (Issue 5), describe Krishnamurti's return to New York in the summer of 1966, his first US visit since 1960. He worried about staying with Mrs. Pinter, because "Mr. Pinter had died since the last time he was there." Instead he visited Myra, who by then was elderly and lame, and she sent a car each day to take him to his talks at The New School.
No obituary has been found. The New York Times paid death notices for 5-8 September 1965 have no Pinter, and neither does the German-Jewish emigre paper Aufbau for all of 1965. Myra, then about 71 and in poor health, may not have placed a notice.
Next step: I am requesting Myra's 1972 estate file from the New York County Surrogate's Court, which may name Frederick's burial place and family.
Source: Mary Zimbalist memoirs, Issue 5: https://inthepresenceofk.org/issues/issue-5/
This post was researched and drafted with the help of Claude, an AI assistant, and reviewed by Nancy Cunningham.
