Obituaries Obituaries from page 77 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 ii . lett:irakanintan.com 78 October 21 • 2010 JN 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.