Obituaries
Obituaries from page 61
EDDIE SILVER, 90, of
Southfield, died Oct. 27, 2010.
He was a custom home
builder and owner of Dee Jay
Building Company. He was
also a member of Adat Shalom
Synagogue.
Mr. Silver is survived by
Silver
his daughters and sons-in-
law, Gabi Silver and David
Cripps of Huntington Woods,
Sherrie Silver and Eric Pazner
of Huntington Woods; son
and daughter-in-law, Joe
Ho d , T 11 and Delores Silver of West
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Bloomfield; grandchildren,
Lily and Jared Pazner, Tatiana
and Natalie Cripps; sister, Ann Wallach of West
Bloomfield; nephew, Larry Wallach; nieces, neph-
ews, great-nieces, great-nephews and caregivers.
Interment at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.
Contributions may be made to Holocaust
Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road,
Farmington Hills, MI 48334,
www.holocaustcenter.org; or Odyssey Hospice,
25925 Telegraph, Suite 102, Southfield, MI 48075.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
MIRIAM VIKTORA, 55, of Port Richey, Fla.,
died Oct. 25, 2010.
She is survived by her beloved husband,
Richard Viktora; son and daughter-in-law, Brian
and Marianne Newman; daughter, Julie Newman;
granddaughter, Victoria Manning; mother and
stepfather, Evelyn Taylor Siegel and Irving Siegel;
sisters and brother-in-law, Diane and Ronald
Hopp, Lisa Woerdeman; sisters-in-law, Liz
Viktora and Rose Pilch. Also survived by many
loving nieces, nephews, extended family and dear
friends.
She was the daughter of the late Martin Taylor
and the wife of the late Sanford Newman.
Funeral services were Oct. 29 in Tampa, Fla.
The family will be gathering from 1-4 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 7, at the Heritage Apartments,
25800 W. 11 Mile Road, Southfield, Mi 48034.
Contributions may be made to MS or breast can-
cer charities or charity of one's choice.
Correction
• The obituary for Albert Newman (Oct. 28, page
86) should have included grandchildren Adam
and Sharon Layne of Farmington Hills.
18325 West N ne Mile Road
Southfield. MI 48075
248-569-0020
Fax: 248-569-2502
wuw.irakaufinan.com
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November 4 • 2010
Obituaries
Fiddler's Joseph Stein
New York/JTA — Joseph Stein,
Fiddler, and writing him some
the Tony Award-winning
material, according to the New
writer of the Broadway musical York Times.
Fiddler on the Roof,
Stein also wrote
has died.
Enter Laughing, a
Stein died Oct. 23
comedy based on
in Manhattan after
an autobiographical
fracturing his skull
book by Carl Reiner
in a fall. He was 98.
about a Jewish
Stein wrote
boy who wants to
more than a dozen
become an actor,
Broadway musi-
as well as Zorba
cals, but is best
and Rags. He wrote
Joseph Ste in
known for Fiddler,
screenplays for
which won nine
three shows includ-
Tony Awards in 1965, including
ing Fiddler, and also wrote a
Stein's Best Author of a Musical. handful of television projects.
He began his career in writ-
Stein earned a degree in
ing after meeting comedian
social work from Columbia
and actor Zero Mostel, who
University in 1937 and worked
played Tevya in the origi-
for a decade as a psychiatric
nal Broadway production of
social worker.