Obituaries
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ADLINE SILVERMAN,
93, of West Bloomfield,
died Oct. 14, 2010.
She is survived by
her daughter, Renee
Silverman of West
Bloomfield; daugh-
ter-in-law, Marian
Silverman
Silverman; grandchil-
dren, Keith Silverman
and Zachary Silverman; caregiver,
Vernon Lewis.
Mrs. Silverman was the beloved wife
of the late Daniel Silverman; the devoted
mother of the late Lester Silverman;
the cherished daughter of the late Jacob
and the late Rose Nestrovsky. She was
the last of her seven siblings, Irwin,
William, Kate, Lawrence, Bessie and
Bernard.
Interment at Clover Hill Park
Cemetery. Contributions may be
made to a charity of one's choice.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
KENNETH BRIAN
STEIN, 49, of Chicago,
died Oct. 11, 2010.
He was an artist.
He is survived by
his parents, Sol and
Marion Stein of West
Bloomfield; sisters and
Stein
brother-in-law, Susan
Baker Ducey and Linda
and Spencer Minns of Franklin; nephew
and niece, Benny Goldman and Annie
Minns; other relatives and friends.
Interment at Clover Hill Park
Cemetery. Contributions may be made
to JARC, Mildred and Harold Singer
Clothing Fund, 30301 Northwestern
Highway, Suite 100, Farmington Hills,
MI 48334, www.jarc.org or American
Cancer Society, 20450 Civic Center
Drive, Southfield, MI 48076,
www.cancer.org . Arrangements by Ira
Kaufman Chapel.
I 25 Wert Nine Mile Road
.Southfield. AU 48075
248-569-0020
Fax: 248-569-2502
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Obituaries
Author Belva Plain
JTA — Novelist Belva Plain, 93, the author
of 20 books about several generations of
Jewish-American families, died Oct. 12,
2010, at her home in New Jersey.
She became a best-selling author as
a grandmother at age 59 with her first
novel, Evergreen, which spent a combined
total of 61 weeks on the New York Times
bestseller list in hardback and paperback.
Twenty of her novels have appeared on the
Times list. More than 25 million copies of
her books are in print.
The author, born in New York City,
was a third-generation American of
German-Jewish descent. A graduate of
Barnard College in New York, she sold
her first story to Cosmopolitan magazine
at the age of 25.
Plain wrote her books in longhand in
notebooks using detailed outlines as a
reference, according to the Times.
Shortly before her death, Plain com-
pleted a sequel to Evergreen, which will
be published in February, the Associated
Press reported.
Lay Leader Irving Kessler
JTA — Irving Kessler, a longtime lay
leader of the Jewish federation system and
its overseas partners, has died.
Kessler, the executive vice chairman
emeritus of the United Israel Appeal,
died Oct. 2, 2010. He was 88 and lived in
Newport, R.I.
Kessler served the UIA from 1974 to
1988 before becoming the senior adviser
to the chairman of the Jewish Agency
for Israel.
Prior to his work at the UIA, he was
the executive director of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Hartford, Conn.,
after serving as a staff member there,
according to the UIA.
Kessler helped secure U.S. govern-
ment funding to help immigrants settle
in Israel, as well as a line of credit from
the government in 1984 to help Israel
begin Operation Moses, which brought
thousands of Ethiopian Jews to the
Jewish state.
He was a World War II veteran of the
Army Air Corps.