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During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
will study in memory of the following departed friends.
In addition, Kaddish will be said during the daily minyan.

2 Nisan April 10, 2016
Jack Barck
Paul Alan Berent
Moshe Bordoley
Jacob Fleishman
Albert H. Friedman
Doris Hollo
Morton Krosnick
Fern Kunick
Eva Leach
Isadore E. Lichtenstein
Joseph Linder
Sadie Moehlman
Robert Benjamin Novitz
Sadie Rosenthal
Dr. Harold Rowe
Moishe Schwartz
Imre Weiss
3 Nisan April 11, 2016
Laura Burns
Manie Cohen
Isaac Goldstein
Philip Gordon
Sylvia Holtzman
Harry Rimar
Rachel Seyburn
Rabbi Ephraim F. Shapiro

Jack Sklar
Charles Williams
4 Nisan April 12, 2016
Jack Berman
Robert M Cohn
Jennie Dorfman
Juda Gottlieb
Ruth Kaplan
Hyman Abraham Keys
Leon Levy
Betsey Linovitz
Minnie Lipton
Louis Rudolph
Kay Russ
Gilbert Siegel
Moshe Woolf
Louis A Woolman
5 Nisan April 13, 2016
Marvin Berlin
Sadie Cohn
Sylvia Docks
Rose Fridson
Reva Lipschutz
Ben Malzberg
Flora Morris
Samuel Remer
Sol Rudy

6 Nisan April 14, 2016
Frank Friedman
Jeanette Greenstein Green
Minnie Lazarus
Nathan Lee
Thelma Toby Levy
Archie Luborsky
Jerry Sam Richman
Ignac Sanders
Samuel Vexler
7 Nisan April 15, 2016
Martin Feldman
Joseph Franovitz
Fay H Freeman
Ben Kathren
Morris Kent
Gussie Sak
Sidney Shindler
Libbe Wolfson
8 Nisan April 16, 2016
Sarah Farkas
Rachel Gladstone
Irene Glaeday
Bessie Glazer
Sam Levey
Sylvia Esther Novetsky

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M

arilyn Barnett was a
standards high and was always there
groundbreaking entrepre- when she was needed.
neur, a visionary leader,
“She was a successful trailblazer,
a glamorous icon of her genera-
not afraid to take chances or lead by
tion, and a devoted wife, mother,
example,” said Rhona.
grandmother and
Enmeshed in the
great-grandmother who
work force before it was
valued her family above
common for women
all else.
to balance careers and
Marilyn, who lived
families, Marilyn was
in Bloomfield Hills
a risk taker. She never
with her husband of 65
shied away from a
years, Melvin, passed
challenge, even when
away on March 28,
it involved posing in
2016, after a valiant
the driver’s seat of a
battle with cancer. She
Ford Mustang … on
was 83.
the top of the 25-story
Marilyn Barnett
A beautiful woman
Pontchartrain Hotel in
who began her career
Downtown Detroit.
as a model for the auto-
According to Ken,
mobile industry and a popular televi- Marilyn’s life was an ongoing screen-
sion spokesperson, Marilyn went on
play, and she was its writer, producer
to originate the Mars Agency, which
and complex and ever-changing star.
she imbued with her business acu-
She was strong-willed and power-
men and family-oriented ideals.
ful, but her goals were simple: She
Founded in 1973, Mars is now the
wanted the best for her family, her
world’s largest independent shop-
business and everyone around her.
per marketing advertising agency,
“To know her was to love her,” said
with more than 500 employees and
Ken.
branch offices throughout the United
States, Toronto, Canada, and London, LOVE OF FAMILY
Born in Detroit, Marilyn was the
England. It serves prestigious clients
second of three children of Kate and
such as Campbell Soup Company,
Henry Schiff, and it was there she
Colgate and Walmart.
learned the importance of family and
A tribute posted on the Mars
remaining close to those she loved.
Agency Facebook page states,
While still in her teens, Marilyn
“Marilyn was a pioneer, a visionary
attended a party and caught the eye
and a leader. She saw opportunity
where others didn’t. And because she of Melvin Barnett, who became her
had the courage to follow her dreams husband and life partner of 65 years.
and ignore those who said it couldn’t Throughout their long marriage, they
were always together, sharing the good
be done, this great company stands
times and lending each other quiet
stronger than ever today.”
support through the difficult times.
Marilyn earned awards and
Rabbi Harold Loss of Temple Israel,
accolades galore during her long
who spoke at the funeral, said Melvin
and successful career. She was
described his wife as beautiful, intelli-
named Entrepreneur of the Year,
gent, sweet, determined, generous and
Outstanding Retail Marketing
fun, a woman whose family was the
Executive, Outstanding Retail
Woman of the Year, one of Michigan’s center of her world.
She welcomed her children’s spouses
Top 25 Women Business Owners,
into her life and her family; when her
Oakland County Executive of the
grandchildren married, their partners
Year and Advertising Woman of the
became her own grandchildren.
Year.
“She was in charge of her life from
She was inducted into the Adcraft
beginning to end,” said Rabbi Loss.
Hall of Fame and received the Top
“She had a knack for making everyone
Agency Management Award and
around her feel special.”
the Women in Communication’s
Headliner Award, among others.
AN INSPIRATION
To her children, Rhona and Ken,
Marilyn was a true role model, a gen- Marilyn, the consummate business-
erous and loving mother who set her woman, was also a compassionate,