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OBITUARIES
OF BLESSED MEMORY
Following a short detour
to Shreveport, La., Jack
and Sharon moved back to
Michigan, where they stayed
for the remainder of his
career.
Sharon died in 1989, soon
after they made a retirement
move to be closer to Jack’s
brother Hank, and his wife
Judy, in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Following Hank’s death,
Jack moved to San Diego to
be closer to Leslye and her
family.
Jack was known for his
sense of humor, which he
kept until the end of his life,
his fast driving, his incessant
craving for chocolate and his
love of family.
He is mourned by his
daughter, Leslye (Scott)
Lyons; grandchildren, Kevin
(Nichole) and Russell Lyons;
and numerous nieces and
nephews.
Interment was at
Beth El Memorial Park.
Contributions may be made
to Words Alive, 5111 Santa
Fe St., Suite 219, San Diego,
CA 92109, wordsalive.org/
donate; Congregation Beth
Israel San Diego; Cindy
Polger’s College Crew, 9001
Towne Centre Drive, San
Diego, CA 02122, cbisd.
shulcloud.com/payment.
php; or to a charity of one’s
choice. Arrangements by Ira
Kaufman Chapel.
Manhattan Project
Scientist Died
Abraham Zarem, one of the
last surviving Manhattan
Project scientists, died at
age 106.
He was 28
when he joined
the Manhattan
Project, the vast
U.S. government
effort to develop
the atom bomb.
Engineers like
him gathered in
secret laboratories
in New Mexico, California,
New York City and else-
where to provide the practi-
cal know-how the theorists
lacked.
“‘They were geniuses but
didn’t know how to build
a f—king thing,’” Zarem
recalled, according to his
longtime rabbi at Sinai
Temple in Los Angeles,
David Wolpe.
Zarem, who
went on to a dis-
tinguished career
in technology,
business develop-
ment and leader-
ship management
training, died
March 8 in Los
Angeles. He was
106, and one of the last sur-
viving members of the army
of scientists, technicians,
bureaucrats and clerks who
helped build the weapon that
would force Japan’s surrender
in World War II and usher in
the Atomic Age.
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