Lili Nathan, of Concord, died March 14, 2026, at Emerson Hospital. She was born in New York City on July 23, 1938, to Kurt and Elizabeth Nathan, German Jews who were able to emigrate thanks to the good fortune of having American family to sponsor them.

Lili grew up in Washington, D.C., and Maryland and then in the Philippines when her father’s work for the Marshall Plan took the family overseas. While he went by air, Lili with mother and sisters followed leisurely by ship. She went to high school at the American School in Manila.

Lili attended Antioch and Hunter College, receiving a BA in Russian language. She married Dan Felshin and they raised two children together in the tightly knit community of Free Acres in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. A founding member of the Morris Area Freewheelers and longtime member of the Central Jersey Bicycle Club, “Hilly Lili” led hundreds of rides, helped plan multiple week tours in the US and abroad, and several times rode “The Longest Day” from High Point to Camp May, NJ, ranging from 200 to 225 miles in a single day.

Lili and her first husband divorced in 1985. In 1998 she married fellow cyclist Jack Brohal of Blairstown, NJ. Among their many exploits, they crossed the country by bike, dipping their wheels in the Atlantic, pedaling west through Appalachia, the Great Plains, and the Rockies, and finally dipping wheels into Pacific waters at the San Juan Islands of Washington State.

Her math and proofreading skills and attention to detail made her a key employee at her cousin’s insurance brokerage, and at a textile import firm where she also got to speak German and Spanish.

After Jack’s death, Lili moved to Concord to the home of her daughter Sue Felshin for her last year.

Lili leaves her daughter, her son Lee Felshin, her sisters Vicky Hoover and Diana Michaels, stepchildren Wendy Lusby and Frank and Glen Brohal and their families, her first cousin Evy Nathan, many other family members, and many friends. Her love of reading was exceeded only by her love of the outdoors and most of all, of people. A more warm-hearted, friendly, selfless, accepting person you will never meet. She is greatly missed.

In lieu of flowers, a donation may be sent to the International Rescue Committee.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord.