Obituaries Obituaries are updated regularly and archived on JN Online: www.d.etroitjewishnews.com Medicine And Family Georgian Bay and trips to Las Vegas. Dr. Rosenthal and his wife, Ruth, married in August 1939. "Our mother's maiden name r. Samuel A. Rosenthal considered being a doctor was Feigenson and her father and to be the utmost privi- - her uncle were the founders of Faygo Beverages," said Ben lege. Rosenthal. But his father didn't Like television's idealized know the connection when he Marcus Welby, he was a general planned their first practitioner who was date: a tour of the also an advocate for Vernor's Ginger Ale those entrusted to his plant — Faygo's com- care. He gladly made petitor. Always the house calls, without lady, "My mother concern for payment, never said anything right up until a debil- about it." itating stroke forced One of the his retirement at age Rosenthals' accom- 72. plishments was their "He really cared close-knit family. "All about his patients," four sons in the fami- said son Benjamin ly live here and we Rosenthal. enjoy being with each With his passing Dr. Samuel Rosenthal other," Ben Rosenthal on Dec. 17, Dr. said. "My parents Rosenthal, 93, of West Bloomfield leaves a legacy of made that happen. They stayed hard work, good deeds and devo- home and made sure we were taken care of." tion to his loved ones. "The two Matthew Rosenthal appreciated things in his life were his family his dad's sense of humor. "He was and medicine," said son Matthew a remarkably tolerant person Rosenthal. because he didn't kill any of us!" The Cincinnati-born doctor was Matthew joked. "It was an active the oldest child of Joseph household." Rosenthal, a founder of Detroit's Jill Rosenthal said her grandfa- Hungarian shul, Congregation ther was "a very kind, sweet man." B'nai Moshe, and Eva, a home- Last year he was hospitalized with maker. An athletic young man, an ulcer and, unable to eat, was Samuel Rosenthal graduated from doing so poorly that family mem- Eastern High School in Detroit. bers thought he . would die. But on The future doctor began work- , the August day that Jill and her ing at age 8. He put himself cousin Beth came to say goodbye, through Wayne University. Medical their grandfather surprised them. School as a master butcher, gradu- "He hadn't spoken in months, but ating in 1935. he whispered to us, 'I love you."' During-World War II, Dr. From that point, he recovered Rosenthal was a captain in the enough to go home. U.S. Army Medical Corps and Two of Dr. Rosenthal's sons, established the first mobile med- Leonard and Jerome, became doc- ical hospital in France after the D- tors. Matthew Rosenthal said his Day invasion. brother Leonard "was with my In Detroit, he was a 50-year father one day and saw him assist- member of Adat Shalom ing at a car accident and said, 'I Synagogue and belonged to the want to be that guy.'" Maimonides Medical Society and With their father's reputation as American Medical Society. He an expert diagnostician and con- enjoyed fishing in Canada's ESTHER ALLWEISS TS CHIRHART Special to the Jewish News k, SW , uw