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 SlirOR TYlit 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 62 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.