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or Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, P
.O.
Box 2044, Southfield, MI 48037.
Interment was held at Hebrew
Memorial Park. Arrangements by
Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
ALFRED SCHWARZ,
94, of Huntington
Woods, died Oct. 15,
2019.
He is survived by
his companion, Claire
Levine; son and daughter-in-law,
Philip and Susan Schwarz; daughter
and son-in-law, Miriam Schwarz
and Edward Katz; grandchildren,
Rachel and Jeremy Schwarz, Jacob,
Joshua, Hannah and Eli Katz.
Mr. Schwarz was the beloved hus-
band of the late Gertrude Schwarz;
brother of the late Robert Schwarz.
Interment was held at Adat
Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery
in Livonia. Contributions may be
made to Congregation T’
chiyah
or to Hospice of Michigan.
Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.
M
orton Mandel, a
Cleveland busi-
nessman who
donated tens of millions of
dollars to Jewish causes, died
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, at
his home in Florida, according
to the Cleveland Jewish News.
He was 98.
His family left Poland for the
United States in 1913. Mandel
was born in Cleveland in 1921.
In 1940, he and his two
brothers, Jack and Joseph,
founded Premier Industrial
Corp., an auto parts distributor
that built off their uncle’
s small
store. It became a worldwide
company listed on the New
York Stock Exchange in 1964
and merged with United
Kingdom-based Farnell
Electronics in 1996 to form
Premier Farnell.
In 1953, the brothers
founded the Jack, Joseph and
Morton Mandel Foundation,
which has contributed to
a number of Jewish and
non-Jewish causes. The
foundation has supported
institutions including the
Mandel Center for Studies
in Jewish Education at
Brandeis University and the
Mandel Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies at the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum
in Washington, D.C.
In 1990, the foundation
launched a branch in Israel to
support a range of programs
there.
Mandel founded more
than a dozen nonprofit
organizations and served
as president of United Way
Services in Cleveland. He
received a number of awards
for his work, including the
Presidential Award for Private
Sector Initiatives presented by
President Ronald Reagan.
He was predeceased by his
brothers: Jack died in 2011 at
99 and Joseph in 2016 at 102.
Mandel is survived by his
wife, Barbara, their three chil-
dren and seven grandchildren.
Morton Mandel, shown in 2018,
founded more than a dozen
nonprofit organizations and served
as president of United Way Services
in Cleveland. PHOTO COURTESY ALYSSA
SCHMITT/CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS
Morton Mandel, Jewish
Businessman and
Philanthropist, Dies at 98
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