1. Susan Alfond Was Born To A Jewish family
Susan Alfond was born to her father, Harold Alfond, and her mother, Dorothy Alfond.
Both of her parents are Jewish. She is one among her four siblings and the only daughter of her parents.
Harold and his wife, Dorothy, got married in 1943. Susan's mother died in December 2005, and her father passed away in Belgrade, Maine, on November 16, 2007.
Her grandfather and grandmother, Simon and Rose Alfond are Russian Jewish immigrants.
Her father founded the Dexter Shoe Company in 1958 and later sold it to Warren Buffett in 1993 at $433 million Berkshire Hathaway Stock.
He organized the first private foundation in the State of Maine, the Harold Alfond Foundation, in 1950.
Susan was raised alongside her three brothers, Ted, Bill, and Peter Alfond.