Obituaries
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH
School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center
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5751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, MI 48076 • (248) 557-6750
"The entire
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During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will study in memory of
the following departed friends. In addition, Kaddish will he said during the daily minyan.
07 Av July 22, 2007
09 Av July 24, 2007
Joseph Dorf
Jacob Peltz
Samuel Rivkin
Irene Hirnelstein
Annie Kelmanovitz
Esther Marcus
Gertrude Marks
Anna Weisberg
Bertha Weisser
08 Av July 23, 2007
Louis Baggleman
Phillip Gerald Eizen
Julius Freedman
Max Graff
Morton Keller
Victor A. Mallis
Richard David Mitchell
Ben Norber
Louis Stoll
Millie Franovitz
Rose Grossman
Lena Nucian
Sophie Pfeiffer
Ethel Rosenbaum
Eva Wasserman
Harry Ackerman
Avrohom Moshe
Applebaum
Eliyahu Applebaum
Leib Applebaum
Leizer Applebaum
Mottel Applebaum
Chaim Cohen
Isaac Gendelman
David Keller
Yisroel Moshe Levinson
& Family
Shimon Proctor
Max Louis Roberts
Max Roggin
Murray Jacob Roth
Louis Semansky
Benjamin Weinberg
Beila Applebaum
Channah Roche!
Applebaum
Chayeh Applebaum
Devorah Applebaum
Mollie Feder
Regina Goldstein
Devorah Hayman
Bertha Hess
Amalia Lebovics
Jean Boesky Miller
Anita Rubin
Rose Solomon
Lena Stern
Sarah Leah Willis
10 Av July 25, 2007
David M. Dana
Isadore Diamond
Shea Gold
Max Isaacson
Charles Kogan
Jacob Kominars
Louis I. Weber
Esther Eisenstadt
Marion Eizen
Frances Rudolph
Minnie Ruzumna
Rebecca Watnick
11 Av July 26, 2007
Max Cohen
Max Gelles
Jack Clicker
Ben Kape
Nathan Kaufman
Michael Lander
Charles Mihaly
Ruth Jeanette Arbit
Alice Cohen
Lillian Lichtenstein
'A Shining Star'
12 Av July 27, 2007
Max Blinder
Ben Chessler
Gershon Gelber
Joseph M. Seigle
Anna Kawa
Rachel Rosenberg
Naomi Rotofsky
Anna Sturman
Rose Weintraub
Bill Carroll
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13 Av July 28, 2007
Hyman W. Aronson
Ben Berlant
Max Ettinger
Sydney Gartenberg
Samuel Kaufman
Charles Edward Mellen
Louis Saks
Abraham Schwetz
Jennie Abrams
Pearl Papo
Sarah Schechter
Mindel Shechter
Manya Wain
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sonality, who loved to entertain and
just have a good time." Mrs. Jacob
and her husband were boaters with
he only way the family of
the Morrises, and they often visited
Jewell Prentis Morris knew
and partied in the Florida Keys.
she was ill was when she
The Morris and Prentis families
began to slow down last March. Until
have supported many Jewish causes,
then, she went out to lunch every day,
including the Oak Park Jewish
stayed up late at night, loved to dance
Community Center building, named
and even visited Florida's Walt Disney
in memory of the Morrises' late
World late last year — leaving friends
son, Jimmy Prentis Morris, who was
who accompanied her exhausted.
killed in an auto accident at the age
Mrs. Morris, 87, the
of 13; the Michigan
wife of one Jewish busi-
State University
nessman-philanthropist
Hillel Foundation
and the daughter of
building, named for
another, died of cancer
Lester Morris; the
on July 13, 2007, in Palm
former Meyer Prentis
Beach, Fla., where she
assisted living home in
maintained a home in
Southfield; the Anna
addition to a Bloomfield
and Meyer Prentis
Hills residence. Her hus-
Jewish Apartments in
band was the late Lester
Oak Park; the Meyer L.
J. Morris, owner of the
Prentis Comprehensive
Jewell Prent is Morris
longtime Morris Buick
Cancer Center in
dealership in Detroit,
Detroit; and the Meyer
who died in 2000; and her father was
and Anna Prentis Building at the
the late Meyer Prentis, an immigrant
Wayne State University School of
from Lithuania who served as trea-
Business Administration in Detroit.
surer of General Motors for 32 years
Mrs. Morris is survived by her
and died in 1970.
daughter and son-in-law, Patrice and
"My mother was always full of ener-
Dr. Eric Phillips of West Bloomfield;
gy and enthusiastic about everyone
son and daughter-in-law, Robert
and everything," said her daughter,
Morris and JoAnn Ross of Colorado;
Patrice Phillips of West Bloomfield.
granddaughters, Jennifer and Rachel
"She took tap dancing lessons in her
Phillips; sister, Beverly Wagner of
70s, played golf at the Franklin Hills
Florida; sister-in-law, Beatice Smith;
Country Club in her early 80s and vol- brother-in-law, Marvin Frenkel; loving
unteered for many charities.
nieces, nephews, cousins and friends;
"I used to go with her door-to-door
JoAnn's children, Erika and Keith
collecting money for the Torch Drive.
Norman and their daughters, Phoebe
She worked at the Leader Dogs for
and Ella Norman.
the Blind. She was chairperson of the
She was the beloved wife of the late
first-ever Angel Ball for the National
Lester J. Morris, the cherished moth-
Council of Jewish Women, belonged
er of the late Jimmy Prentis Morris,
to Hadassah and ORT and was on the
the devoted daughter of the late
groundbreaking committee for the
Meyer and Anna Prentis, the loving
current Temple Beth El building."
sister of the late Helen Vera Lande,
Her funeral was held on July 16 at
the late Barbara Frenkel, the dear sis-
the Bloomfield Township temple.
ter-in-law of the late Alexander Smith,
"Jewell always wanted to know what the late Cyril Wagner, the late Melva
the next activity was going to be,"
Kent, the late Sy Morris and the late
said niece Patricia Lefkowitz of New
Lawrence Lande.
York City. "When she took tap danc-
Interment was at Clover Hill Park
ing, Lester had to enamel the piano
Cemetery. Contributions may be made
because she surprised all of us by
to the MSU Hillel Foundation, Lester
tap dancing on it. She was generous
J. Morris Fund, 360 Charles St., East
and elegant and had a lot of common
Lansing 48823; Temple Beth El,
sense."
Lester and Jewell Morris Fund, 7400
Reva Jacob of Bloomfield Hills, Mrs.
Telegraph, Bloomfield Hills 48301;
Morris' friend since their childhoods in or Oak Park JCC, the Jimmy Prentis
Detroit's Palmer Woods neighborhood,
Morris Fund,15100 North 10 Mile, Oak
called her a "shining star who was
Park 48237. Arrangements by Ira
always upbeat with a fantastic per-
Kaufman Chapel. II
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