Obituaries

Sally J. (Sarah) Wagner of Bloomfield, devoted wife of Judge Jerry Wagner for 62 years; daughter of the late Attorney Maxwell and Raye Hurvitz, died on February 26, 2013. Sally grew up in the West End of Boston, attended Girls High School and Massachusetts School of Art, and pursued a career as a commercial fashion illustrator in Washington D.C. and...

Maxwell Uffer, 86 years of age, of Henley Way, West Hartford, died Sunday, January 30, 2011. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he was the son of the late Harry and Ida (Miller) Uffer. He was a US Navy Veteran of World War II. He leaves his son, Michael Uffer and his wife Debra Salomon of Brooklyn, NY; his daughter Susan Clancy...

Melvin Stoner, 81 years of age, of Bloomfield, formerly of West Hartford, died Monday, June 28, 2010 at St. Francis Hospital. Born in New London, he was the son of the late David and Dorothy (Goldstein) Stoner. Mel graduated from the University of Connecticut and from the University of Connecticut School of Law. He was a founder of Stoner, Gross,...

Milton Stone, 89 years of age, of Newington, CT for over 40 years, passed away on August 12, 2010. He was pre-deceased by his wife Anne Cooper Stone. Born in Hartford, he was the son of the late Joseph and Bella (Hurwitz) Stone. Milton was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving on the USS Buchanan during WWII. He worked for the...

Lawrence Tattenbaum, beloved husband, father, grandfather and uncle passed away on November 26, 2009. Larry was a graduate of Brandeis ’54, Harvard M.B.A. ’58. Korean War veteran. Owner, President, and C.E.O. of Lamp Fair Incorporated. Director of Special Events at Boston’s Jordan Marsh. Vice President Verplex Lighting Corp. Founder and VP of American Home Lighting Association, Showroom Division. President, TLT...

Felix Wald of Falls Road, Moodus, husband Anne (Finkel) Kent Wald died Saturday, (August 25, 2007) at home. He was predeceased by his first wife Lillian Wald. He was an army veteran of World War II. A member of Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek. A member of the Moodus Grange, the Jewish War Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He...

TUMARKIN, Nancy (Birnbaum) Tumarkin, 52, of Peabody, MA, died Sunday, August 6, 2006. Born in New Britain, she was the daughter of Myron B. and Lillian (Silver) Birnbaum of New Britain. Besides her parents she leaves two sisters, Iris Burkat and her husband Howard of Scarsdale, NY, and Joan Krasnoo and her husband James of Andover, MA. She also leaves...

Roselyn (Landerman) Zola, 86 years of age, of West Hartford, died Friday March 30, 2012. She was the widow of Samuel N. Zola. Born in Hartford, she was the daughter of the late Nathan and Fanny (Lurie) Landerman, pre-deceased by her much loved older brothers, Paul Landerman and James Landerman. Roselyn worked for SNET until she retired in 1983 after...

Rose R. ?Roz? (Jaffee) Taylor, 86, passed away at her New Haven home on July 6, 2008. The daughter of the late Barnett and Ida (Mopsic) Jaffee, she was born in Norwich, and raised in Hartford. Her husband, Philip L. Taylor, predeceased her. She leaves behind her beloved and devoted son, Robert Taylor and his wife Jenny, of New York...

Dora Cornell Wendrow passed away peacefully, at her home in Newington, on Tuesday afternoon (August 20, 2013), after a very brief illness, surrounded by her loving family. Dora leaves behind her adoring husband, Manuel “Manny” Wendrow, of 58 cherished years. They met at a resort in the Catskills in 1955. It would be a story retold over the years countless...

Dorothy Ruth Wendrow Silver of the Hebrew Home and formerly of Starkel Road in West Hartford died on May 19, just four days before her 94th birthday. She was born May 23, 1916 in New Britain, the daughter of Belle and Samuel Wendrow. She was the eldest of five children. She attended Hartford Schools. In 1940 she married William Silver....

SOWALSKY, Meyer S. ‘Mickey’ Sowalsky, 89, of Brewster Rd., West Hartford died Saturday, March 4, 2006 at Hartford Hospital, with his family by his bedside, after courageously battling various illnesses for several years. Born in Hartford, he was the son of the late Isadore and Clara (Rutchik) Sowalsky. He attended Hartford Public High School and was a U.S. Army Air...

WEINBERGER, Barry Hugh Weinberger, 69 years of age, of Liberty, NY died Friday, September 9, 2011. Born in Cleveland, OH, he was the son of the late Marvin L. Weinberger and the late Lucille (Beyer) Opas. He was the beloved husband of Regina Weinberger; and the loving brother of Joyce W. Flescher and her husband Dr. Robert Flescher of West...

Beatrice B. (Black) Solomon, 86, of West Hartford died Monday, August 3, 2009. She was the widow of George L. Solomon. Born in Hartford, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin and Tillie (Strutin) Black. Bea graduated from Hartford Public High School in 1940 and was employed as a billing assistant for the Elias Glass Company and as a...

oseph S. Sudarsky of Bloomfield and West Harwich, MA died last evening at the age of 94. Born August 30, 1918, he was a graduate of Weaver High School and Dartmouth College, Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He was graduated from Yale Law School in 1942, after which he enlisted and served in the infantry in World War...

Emmy Ziegelstein Weinstein of West Hartford, was born July 9, 1913 in Sterzhausen, Germany to Solly and Minna (Eisenberg) Ziegelstein. Alarmed by Hitler’s rise to power, Emmy, in 1933 at age twenty, fled Germany, urging her parents to accompany her - to no avail. Her parents’ and her grandmother were murdered in the Riga concentration camp by the Nazis. She...

Roslyn (Pivnick) Weinstein, 95 years of age, of Atlanta, GA, formerly of West Hartford, died Thursday, January 23, 2014. She was the widow of Jack Weinstein. Born in Hartford, she was the daughter of the late Morris and Emma (Noll) Pivnick. Roslyn worked for Harris-Adelberg & Strauss Insurance Agency in West Hartford until she retired. She leaves her son, Daniel...

Conrad E. Wertheim of Tamarac, Florida, and (Old Colony Beach) Old Lyme, passed away Wednesday (November 14, 2012). He was born in Hartford, on February 10, 1924, to the late Max and Vera (Vosburg) Wertheim. He was the beloved wife of Frances (Sandler) Wertheim for the past 67 years. He was a graduate of Weaver High School, class of 42...

Bertha (Sheintop) Spector, widow of Max Spector, died peacefully at home in Berlin, on Saturday, (August 9, 2008). Born in Hartford, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin and Gussie Sheintop. Bertha was a graduate of Weaver High School, class of 1938. At the age of 16, Bert earned her pilot’s license and later enlisted in the WASPS -...

Michael Sudarsky, 88 years of age, died Monday, (February 18, 2013). Born in Hartford, he was the son of the late John and Minerva (Suisman) Sudarsky. Michael graduated Loomis School in 1942, Yale College, 1947 (Class 1945w) AND Columbia Law School, 1950. He served in the US Navy during World War II aboard the Destroyer Escort Willlhoite. He received the...