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Alpha District Welfare Department
and volunteered with the Red Cross.
She received the United Foundation's
Red Feather award for substantial
lanche Pollack, the daughter
volunteer hours.
of a rabbi, was an active
She also served the Jewish Welfare
leader in numerous Jewish
and secular organizations for most of Federation Women's Division board
for 30 years.
her adult years.
Mrs. Pollack was the Jewish
Because of her parents' back-
Federation representative to the
she was "always involved in
United Way's Heart of Gold
charity work," said Sheldon Toll, a
Council, was active with the
son-in-law. Mrs. Pollack was
Michigan Opera Theatre and a life
involved in volunteer work because
member of many
of her "public spirit,
charities, including
and it was the right
American Lung
thing to do," he
Association, Hope
added. "She was out-
Ship, Detroit
going, outspoken and
Symphony
vivacious."
Association, Hospice
Mrs. Pollack, 89, of
of Southeastern
Franklin, died June
Michigan, B'nai
16, 2005, of natural
B'rith, Bar-Ilan and
causes at her home.
Brandeis universities.
She volunteered for
She is survived by
a wide range of
her
daughters and
organizations, such as
sons-in-law, Roberta
Hadassah, United
and Sheldon Toll of
Foundation, Detroit
Bloomfield Hills,
Symphony Orchestra,
Linda and Arnold
Adat Shalom
Blanche Pollack
Schafer of
Synagogue, National
Birmingham,
Council of Jewish
Marilyn and E.
Women and March of
Steven Robinson of Bloomfield
Dimes.
Hills; grandchildren, Candice Toll
Born in Chicago, she moved with
Aaron and Brent David, John Toll,
her family to Detroit when she was
Kevin Toll, Bradley Schafer, Todd
8 years old. She attended Central
Schafer, Jamie Schafer, Michael
High School and Wayne University
Robinson, Katherine Robinson; sis-
and took graduate seminars in social
ters-in-law and brother-in-law,
work. After graduation, she received
Selma Winston, David Finkel,
a two-year scholarship from the
Shirley Pollack. She was the beloved
Couzens Foundation for specialized
wife of the late David Pollack;
training and then worked at the
devoted daughter of the late Rabbi
North End Clinic, the forerunner of
Moses Fischer and the late Bertha
Sinai Hospital.
Fischer; loving sister of the late
As a Hadassah member, Mrs.
Kenneth Fischer, the late Sidney
Pollack helped the group build two
Fischer, the late Milton Fischer, the
hospitals in Israel as well as educate
late Bernard Fischer; dear sister-in-
Holocaust orphans. Her efforts were
law of the late Irene Finkel, the late
recognized when she was named
Arthur Pollack, the late Leo Pollack,
Greater Detroit Hadassah's "Woman
and the late Leo Winston.
of the Year."
Interment was at Adat Shalom
Mrs. Pollack also worked in the
Memorial
Park. Contributions may
Jewish Family Service intake depart-
be made to Jewish Hospice and
ment and later as a volunteer in the
Chaplaincy Network. Arrangements
adoption program.
by Ira Kaufman Chapel. ❑
During World War II, she headed
the nursery school program for the

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