YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center 15751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, MI 48076 • (248) 557-6750 he 'entire world is sustained by the Torah study of young children" 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. 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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