Obituaries from pageB37
CLARE TIERMAN, 88,
of West Bloomfield, died
May 22, 2009. With a life-
long avocation as a fine
artist, she was born in
Detroit on Oct. 28, 1920.
Mrs. Tierman is sur-
vived by her devoted
Tierman
and loving husband
c. 1940
for 65 years, Leonard
Tierman; loving children,
Dr. Andrew Tierman and Joan Sabourin,
Maureen and Gene Nelson and Elaine
Tierman Higden; cherished grandchildren,
Paul, Jeff and Amanda, Cass and Phoebe
and Minette.
Her beloved and youngest brother,
Jay Semansky, was killed while serving
America on March 15, 1945, in Belgium
and was dearly mourned throughout her
life. Her other loving and cherished sib-
lings, Saul and Ann, also predeceased her.
Interment at Machpelah Cemetery.
Contributions may be made to a char-
ity of one's choice. Arrangements by Ira
Kaufman Chapel.
ROBERT WOHLMAN, 88, of Wetumpka,
Ala., died May 21, 2009.
He was a leather goods export executive
and the co-owner of Wohlman and Sons.
Mr. Wohlman is survived by his sons and
daughters-in-law, Andrew Marc and Shirley
Wohlman of South Haven, Roger Wohlman
and Diana Cernis of Farmington Hills;
daughters and son-in-law, Dr. Marla Helaine
and fiance, John G. Crews, of Alabama,
Sari Beth and Alexander Joseph DeLoye of
Fenton; grandchildren, Alexander Joseph
DeLoye III, Dillon Benjamin Phillip DeLoye
and Harrison Robert Hunt; sister and broth-
er-in-law, Shirley and Norman Ackerman of
Illinois; brother and sister-in-law, Seymour
"Zeke" and Marilyn Wohlman of Bloomfield
Hills; sister-in-law, Sylvia Wohlman.
He was the beloved husband of the late
Harriett Wohlman; the dear brother of the
late Morton Wohlman.
Interment at Machpelah Cemetery.
Contributions may be made to Jewish
Hospice and Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W.
Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, www.
jewishhospice.org . Arrangements by Ira
Kaufman Chapel.
Swine Flu Victim
Rabbi And Medical Ethicist
New York/JTA — A Jewish New Yorker
was the city's first fatality from swine flu.
Mitchell Wiener, an assistant principal
at Intermediate School 238 in Queens
and an educator for 30 years, died May
17 at Flushing Hospital Medical Center
due to complications from the disease.
He was 55 and lived in Flushing.
Wiener was the first person in New
York State to die from swine flu and the
fifth in the United States, according to
the Centers for Disease Control.
Wiener and his wife were members of
the Garden Jewish Center in Flushing,
according to news reports. He served
for a time on the synagogue's board of
directors.
He had a very warm personality, Rabbi
Martin Cooper of the Garden Jewish
Center told the Newsday daily. He was
very well liked in the congregation.
Wiener's school was one of three
Queens schools closed by the city that
week amid concerns over the spread of
the swine flu virus.
New York/JTA — Gerald Wolpe, one of
the country's most prominent rabbis and
medical ethicists, has died.
Wolpe, who presided over the 1,500-
family Har Zion Temple in Philadelphia
for 30 years until resigning in 1999, died
May 25 after a battle with pancreatic
cancer. He was 81.
As the leader of Har Zion, Wolpe
became a leading voice in medical ethics
and caregiving, a field that he became
interested in during the 1960s but
became personally invested in after his
wife suffered brain aneurysms, accord-
ing to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Wolpe also served as the director
of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for
Religion and Social Studies at the Jewish
Theological Seminary in New York 1997-
2002, and was chairman of the advisory
committee of the Bioethics Center at the
University of Pennsylvania 1996-1999.
Philadelphia Magazine Editor Stephen
Fried wrote a book about the search for
Wolpe's successor.
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