furniture & accessories

where she provides mailing services for
community agencies.
A native of McKeesport, Pa., Weiss'
"If I don't feel like walking, I take the
family moved from that large
bus,"
says Burnstein, who doesn't drive.
Hungarian-Jewish community to
"There are
Detroit so his father could earn $5 a day
ways to get
at the Ford Motor Company Rouge
around and
Manufacturing Complex. But the family
do your
was "just too poor" for him to have a
volunteer
bar mitzvah, and he dropped out of
work, if
school in the ninth grade to work and
you really
help the family financially.
want to."
He became a successful businessman
She was
on his own, starting a steel drum recon-
born in
ditioning company called Atlas-Gottleib
Warsaw,
in Detroit, where he spent most of his
came to
business career. Weiss, 90, of
America
at
Farmington Hills, has been a regular
Martha Burnstein
age
8,
and
volunteer and auditor for JARC and
graduated
helps with Dinners for the Disabled. He
from Detroit's old Commerce High
has been a driver and translator for New
School as a secretary. She managed a
Americans through Jewish Family
dentist's office for 20 years. She
Service, assisting with holiday meals and
became interested in the problems
programming.
facing the elderly after spending
He still maintains a strong interest in
long hours with her husband,
the business community. He is past pres-
Morris, in a nursing home where he
ident and
lived for 13 years, suffering from
the oldest
problems connected with diabetes.
living
They
had been married for 56 years
member of
when
he died.
the Service
She
won several awards for her
Corps of
leadership
and fund-raising abilities,
Retired
mainly
through
her affiliation for 45
Executives,
years
with
the
National
Asthmatic
and, for 30
Center (formerly the Jewish
years, was a
National Home for Asthmatic
consultant
Children), including a term as presi-
to minority
dent of that group. For many years,
businesses.
she volunteered for the Tamarack
He also
Morris 'Andy" Weiss
Camps, Fresh Air Society, and the
belonged
former Senior Service Corps han-
to the for-
dling administrative duties.
mer Mezrechter Society, where he was
Burnstein believes that volun-
instrumental in organizing educational
teerism
for the elderly provides a
seminars, and is still an active member
sense
of
need, focus and socializa-
"
of Adat Shalom Synagogue.
tion."
Her
son, Joseph, of Oak Park,
His daughter, Ilene Weiss Fruitman
says
his
mother's
"strongest accom-
of Farmington Hills, rates her father as
plishment
may
be
that she's carved
"among the thousands of local heroes
t, shtoronn- g-
de
vperenEdigehnty
t
no
ig
asEanhi
whose contributions are made mostly
wdember
of
the
community,
ille
member
one at a time to individuals, rather
and all this after the age 80." ❑
than in a grand and public manner.
We're all proud of his lifetime of vol-
unteering, both in and out of the
7A
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j ispdi tia be t inducted
u cted into the
d aitiso8c
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Jewish community."
f:Fsae7iveicaets
a 6700
Ad u lt Hall
Martha Burnstein
rk and ceremonies beginning at
Burnstein, 88, of Southfield, says she
v 6 at the
May
doesn't believe in old age. "People die of
erta Jewish Apartments,
specific illnesses, not just because they're
Road, West Bloomfield.
old," she adds.
" I be Sherry Margolis of
cdes will
So, she ignores old age and keeps
jB1C-TVil`iFox 2 and Alan
active, doing a lot of walking. This
M uskovitz of the Dick Purtan Show,
includes a three-mile round trip each
Radio. Tickets
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week to the supermarket and to her vol-
nformation, call
cost $65 each. For information,
unteer post at Jewish Vocational Service,
248) 661-5220.

Morris 'Andy" Weiss

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