Harry T. “Buzzie” Schukar, who had a distinguished career in the jewelry business and was active in leadership roles in several Jewish and general organizations, died Tuesday, July 18, 2017. He was 84 and had been in declining health in recent months.Harry...

Earl Schenberg, an acclaimed financial planner and a nationally honored top salesman of the year, died July 4 of complications after suffering a fall, family members said.  He was 78 and a lifelong resident of St. Louis.Mr. Schenberg held the top spot...

Rabbi Steven L. Mills, a former St. Louisan who served as associate rabbi at Temple Israel from 1995 to 2000, died July 2, 2017. He was 57.Rabbi Mills, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Am in Parsippany, N.J. since 2014, was a graduate of Cleveland Marshall...

Sheila Babs Michaels, a St. Louis native who was an iconic figure in feminist and social justice causes, and who has been credited with coining the courtesy title “Ms.,” died on Thursday, June 22 in New York. She was 78 and had been suffering from...

Jerry Koenig, a Holocaust survivor who shared his harrowing story with a multitude of audiences in the bistate area, died Monday, June 11. He was 87 and a longtime resident of Chesterfield. The cause of death was complications from abdominal surgery and...

Sanford A. “Sandy” Silverstein, a retired engineer who was honored in 2013 as an “Unsung Hero” by the Jewish Light for his work in Boy Scouts, died unexpectedly on Sunday, June 11.  He was 93 and a longtime resident of St. Louis.To his family...

Vic Gold, a native of East St. Louis and veteran conservative public relations professional and spokesman for prominent Republican candidates, died last Monday (June 5) in Alexandria, Va.  He was 88.  His daughter Paige said that the cause was complications...

Julian I. Edison, former chairman of Edison Brothers Stores Inc. and a generous supporter of nonprofit organizations in the Jewish and general communities, died Monday, May 8, of a stroke. He was 87. Mr. Edison was widely admired for his business leadership,...

Sara Najman Wolf, described as the “Matriarch of the survivor community” by Jean Cavender, director of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum, and who worked with her late husband Leo to help establish the museum, died May 12.  She was 89, and a longtime...

Harold Shapiro, a past president of the Jewish Family & Children’s Service and a longtime lay leader at Congregation B’nai Amoona, died March 23. He had been suffering complications from Parkinson’s disease in recent months, a family member...

Rose Safar Rosen, formerly of St. Louis, who as a young girl imprisoned at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp was literally pushed out of the line of those marked for certain death, and who after the war met her husband at a Displaced Persons camp in Europe,...

Harold F. Sher, a businessman and major longtime supporter of the Jewish Community Center, died Monday, March 6. He was 87 and a longtime resident of St. Louis. Harold Fred Sher was born in St. Louis on Dec. 28, 1929, the son of Abraham and Jennie Coplon...