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a license plate for his con-
vertible. It read: IOU 00. He
also framed a letter from
the Internal Revenue
Service, which informed him
he had been audited and
owed nothing. A friend,
Harold Haas, remembers
Mr. Teitel as someone "who
always met his obligations."
Mr. Teitel's sense of pride
and self-sufficiency extend-
ed into his final months of
life and plans for death,
friends say.
"Ben was a handler," Mr.
Cook says. "He even wanted
to handle things when he
was dead. He said, 'I'm not
going to be any more sloppy
in giving the money away
than I was in making it.' "
Under the auspices of Mr.
Cook, the Ben Teitel
Charitable Trust gives
money to Jewish, but large-
ly non-religious, organiza-
tions that primarily assist
programs for youth, elderly
and education in metropoli-
tan Detroit and Israel.
Beneficiaries include: The
Harriett and Ben Teitel Day
Care Center in Yavne, a
preschool for children in
Detroit's sister city; and the
Harriett and Ben Teitel
Jewish Federation
Apartment Building in Oak
Park.
The Teitel Charitable
Trust contributed $250,000
to fly 190 Soviet Jews to
Israel and in 1990 and
another large sum of money
to establish the Harriett
and Ben Teitel Oncology
Day Care Unit at the
Children's Medical Center
of Israel.
"It seems that there isn't
a day or a week when I pick
up the newspaper and don't
read something that's being
done with Ben's trust," said
Jeanette Cook, Mr. Teitel's
sister.
Mrs. Cook relates a story
about her brother — a story
that, perhaps, demonstrates
the message of the poem,
Mr. Teitel kept in his wal-
let:
"When Harriett was dying
and the doctor said, live
each day as if it were
Saturday night, Ben's and
Harriett's response was:
We've always done that."
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to live, to do with a
will;
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