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Obituaries
During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
will study in memory of the following departed friends.
In addition, Kaddish will be said during the daily 1-ninyan.
Tishrei 25 / October 10
Sollie Antman
Wolfe Willliam Atlas
Jeanette Berkowitz
A. Howard Bloch
Edith Burk
Dr. Daniel Cohn
Louis Dann
Rose T. Deitch
Bertha Fagenson
Gornbein
Helen G. Klein
Eva Lesser
Rose Marks
Bessie Moerman
Yetta Rucker
Nathan Sachs
Nathan Samet
Sadie Whiteman
Nathan Zack
Tishrei 26 / October 11
Samuel Cohen
Freda Fox
Bernard Greenbaum
Rachel Kratzenstein
Gertrude Lubetsky
Anna Maxman
Samuel Rosenberg
Minnie Ruzumna
Hilda Shoob
Shana Yalowitz
Edward Stark
Eva Rebecca
Waterstone
Herman Weberman
Morris Paul Yampolsky
Tishrei 29 / October 14
Anna Apple
Tishrei 27 / October 12 Louis J Been
Chaya Sarah Dworkin
Muriel Bennet
Caroline Leiderman
Menachem Herz
Samuel Mordecai Levin Etta Josselson
Dr. Rose Malach Sexton Vita Levine
Leah Sherr
Dorothy Stewart
Kalman Silber
Dinah Superstine
Ida Solomon
Mar), Tatelbaum
Molly Weingarden
Chayah S. Tugman
Simon Young
Tishrei 30 / October 15
Tishrei 28 / October 13
Israel Grossman
Chaim Yehuda Aryeh
Leib Lazar
Clara Sherizen
Joseph Silver
Rachel Lerman
Beatrice Morris
James Allan Rose
Bluma Rubin
Freda Sachs
Hirsch Saperstein
Max B. Berent
Ida Bronstein
Richard Colby
Ida Freedman
Samuel Goodstein
Irving Gould
Chesvan 1 / October 16
Sarah Carmen
Reuben Cottler
Tzvi Engelbaum
Blanche Freedman
Irving Goldfarb
Rolf Herz
Henry Hubert
Olga Keller
Dora Kramer
Max Lipson
Theodore Shaffer
Jacob Strom
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he was as sweet as she was
tough, and everyone she knew
could tell a story about her.
Her nephew, former Judge David
"Pinky" Kerwin, said Nellie Friedman
was his Mumma Nechama, a second
mother and a favorite aunt who was
the matriarch that brought several
families together.
But when he went to work for her
in the 1960s, making deliveries for
her Unique Lamp & Gift store, she
became his "closest friend and confi-
dante. You could tell her anything
and she would never repeat it."
Nellie Friedman, 90, of West
Bloomfield, died Sunday, Oct. 3,
2003, on the day of her first great-
grandchild's brit milah.
At her funeral Monday, two of her
four "treasures" — her grandchildren
— and her nephew and her rabbi
shared memories with the mourners
at Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
Cindy Friedman recalled working
in her hubbies store as a child, of
sleeping over at her house, of the little
gifts in the closet, the crinkle of tissue
paper around the hanging clothes and
in suitcases on family trips, the extra
suitcase of kosher chocolate on
Passover trips and Nellie's enthusiastic
response during her illness to every
query: "I feel great!"
Lowell Friedman called Nellie "the
Giving Tree — there was nothing she
wouldn't do for us. And if your hub--
bie was out of town or had moved
away, she'd be your bubbie, too."
When Lowell and Jennifer's Max
was born a week before Nellie's death,
Nellie came to the hospital in a
wheelchair. She was beaming and joy-
ous, wild with delight, "and she
would have eaten little Max right
there if she could," Lowell said.
"It was righteous, like her, that she
died on the day of Max's bris."
Judge Kerwin recalled his truck-
driving days with Aunt Nellie, mak-
ing deliveries and listening to stories
as they went from the Dexter-
Linwood area store — "the center of
our universe growing up" --- to as far
as Gibraltar. The store later moved to
Oak Park.
His mother and his aunt came from
a small town in Poland and were
stuck in Windsor, unable to join rela-
tives in Detroit. Little Nellie, about
12, returned to an immigration office
a week after being shunted from one
department to another. She cried
until she got to see the office manager
and presented him with a box of fine
cigars. Two weeks later, Kerwin said,
his mother and his aunt legally
entered America.
From Poland to West Bloomfield
— "what those two ladies have seen
over the years," Kerwin marveled.
His aunt was a feminist "before the
word was coined," he said; but she
was not a saint. "She ran a store; she
knew how to run a business. She
knew how to deal with people and
she knew how to treat people."
Nellie Friedman
In the earliest days of civil rights,
she made a business alliance with an
African American interior decorator.
It took her into the homes of many
prominent blacks in the community
and helped win Kerwin his judgeship.
"One day during the campaign I got
a call from Bishop Ellis at Greater
Grace Temple [the former Ahavas
Achim at Seven Mile and Schaefer].
He asked me to come to church on
Sunday so that he could introduce me
to his 5,000 congregants.
"That Sunday he told them, 'This
is Nellie Friedman's nephew You will
vote for him and your family will vote
for him because his Aunt Nellie is
part of us.'"
When he was still making deliver-
ies, Kerwin said, Aunt Nellie directed
him to a new subdivision in
Woodhaven. The sign said the devel-
opers were the Giacalone brothers,
reputed Detroit mafiosi. "Do you