Sol S. Tversky, attorney, longtime director of insurance services for the Automobile Club of Missouri/American Automobile Association (AAA) Missouri, and former chairman of the National Association of Independent Insurers, died Friday, June 8, 2007 of complications from diabetes, at the Brook View Nursing Home. He was 90 years old and a resident of University City. Mr. Tversky was also known as a passionate supporter of the State of Israel and Jewish education.

Mr. Tversky was born in St. Louis on May 24, 1917. He was a graduate of Soldan High School and earned his undergraduate and law degrees at Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Tversky’s name appeared in the Washington University Law School’s commencement program with a footnote indicating he had joined the U.S. Army. His wife, the former Julia Korchak, accepted his diploma at the graduation ceremony. Sol and Julia were married in 1941.

Mr. Tversky’s military service was in the U.S. Army Air Corps, with the 404th Bomber Squadron, which served in the Aleutian Islands. “Sol was given a brief furlough so he could go home and say goodbye to his family,” his wife Julia recalled in an interview with the Jewish Light. Mr. Tversky completed his military service and returned to civilian life in 1946. An article in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on Feb. 24, 1982, by David M. Grebler, then a Globe business writer and now a member of the Jewish Light board, noted, “When he (Mr. Tversky) returned to civilian life after 47 months, he got cordial receptions at many law firms, but no job offers. After his wife became pregnant, he decided to accept a ‘temporary position’ at the auto club. He started Oct. 14, 1946.”

Mr. Tversky became chairman of the Auto Club’s legal department in 1952, and was promoted to director of insurance services in 1975, serving until he retired in 1982.

In addition to his duties at the Auto Club, Mr. Tversky served as a member of the ad hoc committee which created the Missouri Joint Underwriting Association (MUJA in 1974. The association was designed to replace the “assigned risk” approach to selling automobile insurance to individuals with bad driving records. Mr. Tversky served as board member, vice chairman and later chairman of MUJA.

In 1981, Mr. Tversky was elected chairman of the National Association of Independent Insurers, the nation’s largest property-liability insurance trade organization. Mr. Tversky was also a member of the Scottish Rite Bodies and Shrine, B’nai B’rith, and a former member of the Central Agency for Jewish Education board of directors. He was also a member of Congregation Shaare Zedek and for many years taught a Torah class at United Hebrew.

The Tverskys maintained a strong support for and interest in the State of Israel throughout their 65-year marriage.

Funeral services for Mr. Tversky were held Sunday, June 8 at the Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery, 9125 Ladue Road, where Rabbi Zalman Stein officiated. Fond remembrances of Mr. Tversky were offered by Rabbi Stein and by Avraham Jeremiah (A. J.) Schreiber, a grandson, and Yisha (Barry) Schwartz, a grand-daughter. “My zayda was especially proud of his roles as a Jew, a soldier and as an officer of the court,” recalled Yisha Schwartz in her remarks. She also noted that “Zayda was fortunate enough to have seen Chloe and Lilly, two great grandchildren.”

In his remarks, A.J. Schreiber recalled, “Zayda Sol and Bubbe Julia always admired our academic accomplishments, and their other passions besides family was for Judaism and the State of Israel.”

Rabbi Stein said, “Sol Tversky was a man of very strong beliefs. He had a ‘temporary’ job for 30 years to which he gave 110 percent effort.”

Survivors include his wife, Julia Tversky; sons Mark (Marsha) Tversky, DDS, of St. Louis and Bob Tversky of Dallas; grandchildren Leah (Adam) Schreiber of Teaneck, N.J., Avra Tversky of New York, N.Y. and Yisha (Barry) Schwartz of Monsey, N.Y. and great-grandchildren Chloe and Lilly. He was the brother of the late Louis and the late Alec Tversky.