Jonathan Hershey Beck, 35, died Oct. 12, 2011. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Beck lived in Tucson before moving to Orlando, Fla., to pursue a career in computer assisted drafting. Survivors include his mother, Meryl Hershey Beck of Tucson; father, Lenny (Susan) Beck of Pepper Pike, Ohio; sister, Alison Hershey (Chuck) Manes of Tucson; and [...]
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Rose Rudis, 92, died Oct. 12 in Seal Beach, Calif. In 1938, Mrs. Rudis escaped the Nazis by walking across the thin ice of the Rhine River from Austria into Switzerland, where she was reunited with her boyfriend, Joe Rudis, who had escaped the Gestapo days earlier. They married several months later. In 1948, they [...]
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Dr. Raymond Grossman, 83, died Oct. 17, 2011. Born in Newark, N.J., Dr. Grossman enlisted in the U.S. Navy, becoming a corpsman and achieving the rank of PhM3/c. He graduated from Columbia University in 1951. He went to the University of Brussels in Belgium before attending the University of Zurich in Switzerland to study medicine. [...]
Read More »Miriam C. Sack, 94, died Oct. 3, 2011, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Mrs. Sack graduated from the University of Chicago. She retired as a family counselor for the Chicago Board of Health. She was a long-time member of Congregation KAM Isaiah Israel in Chicago and Congregation Or Adam in Scottsdale; Mrs. Sack recently published a Jewish [...]
Read More »Evelyn Morris, 88, died Sept. 30, 2011. Mrs. Morris worked as a nurse. She volunteered at Veterans Hospital and the League of Women Voters. She was past president of a New Jersey branch of B’nai B’rith. Mrs. Morris is survived by her husband of 66 years, Edwin; children, Cheryl Nelson, and Brian (Jonne) Morris; six [...]
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Maxine “Bunny” Matlick, 84, died Sept. 24, 2011. Mrs. Matlick was a life member of Hadassah and Brandeis National Committee; past president of Brandeis National Committee, Tucson chapter; and a member of the Desert Caucus. Survivors include her husband, Gerald; children, Cathy Greenbaum, Kenneth (Lorie) Matlick and Tracy (Tony) Sutton, all of Scottsdale; brother-in-law, Stanley [...]
Read More »Seymour “Sy” Oliven, 78, died Sept. 21, 2011. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Oliven graduated from Flatbush Yeshiva and Abraham Lincoln High School. After serving in the U.S. Army, he graduated from New York University and the American Institute of Banking. He was a volunteer in the creation of Temple Beth Ahm in [...]
Read More »Herbert E. Ennis, 89, died Aug. 5, 2011. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Ennis graduated from The Cooper Union. He developed fiberglass artificial limbs for the U.S. Navy. In 1967, he moved to Chicago as president of the defense division for Brunswick Corp. Mr. Ennis worked with the Israeli goverment developing Samson glide vehicles. He [...]
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Norman Essex, 89, died Sept. 7, 2011. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Mr. Essex served in World War II. Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Lillian; children, Merrill (Richard Meliska) Essex of Evanston, Ill., Randall (Christine) Essex of Rockville, Md., and Lauren (Richard) Essex of Del Mar, Calif.; and four grandchildren. Services were held [...]
Read More »Harvey Burton Evenchik, 82, died Sept. 5, 2011. Born in Elyria, Ohio, Mr. Evenchik graduated from the University of Arizona in 1951. He returned to Ohio to attend Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, where he received his master’s degree in business and also started his first business. Mr. Evenchik returned to Tucson in 1959. He [...]
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