 They married in 1950, and had two children, Deborah, a children's author, and David.She died on November 1, 2009, aged 79, from a combination of congestive heart failure and complications from Alzheimers disease.Hautzig helped to discover and eventually publish the master's thesis in mathematics written by her uncle Ela-Chaim Cunzer (1914-1943/44) at the University of Wilno in 1937.