Edward Torchy Smith

Posted on: May 02, 2019 at 9:22 AM

I am a day late. Who are these two people?

Posted on: Apr 06, 2019 at 4:33 AM

See you later tonight.

Posted on: Mar 07, 2019 at 4:43 PM

Hugs

Posted on: Mar 05, 2019 at 6:43 PM

What High School did you go to ? Anyway...Thanks for buying my book.

Posted on: Apr 06, 2018 at 4:33 AM

Posted on: Sep 23, 2017 at 3:14 PM

Happy Birthday......You look great...hope you feel as good as you look.

Posted on: Apr 08, 2017 at 9:56 AM

So I'm a few days late; BFD. Hope you had a great one.

Posted on: Apr 06, 2017 at 4:33 AM

http://mobileobits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=drue-king&pid=183567642&referrer=0&preview=True

OBIT For Drew King...click link above. 

Posted on: Jan 11, 2017 at 1:24 PM

Happy Birthday....almost.....I remember you from high school because I had a big crush on you. I was always afraid to talk to you so I kept my distance. I think I asked you to dance one time and you said next slow dance. I tried to find you but you went outside for a cigarette.

Posted on: Sep 17, 2016 at 7:24 PM

Here you are Richard.....Weren't you on Academic Challenge ?

Posted on: Sep 11, 2016 at 6:29 AM

From Edward Torchy Smith.

I got the following Email today:

Sept. 6th, 2016

I am sorry to share with you that Annellen Minkin Simpkins recently passed away. I am sharing with you as requested by her husband, Charles Simpkins, who wanted someone to know. Thanks.

Best,

Sharon

Sharon Galin

Consultant, Alumni Liaison

Shaker Heights City Schools

15600 Parkland Dr.

Shaker Heights, OH  44120

(216) 295-4877

galin_s@shaker.org

Posted on: Aug 31, 2016 at 5:45 AM

Hey Rocco...Sorry I missed you at The Eagles Club....I heard Iofredo was also there. Hope you and Parma are doing well. I saw Ida at an event during the Republican Convention downtown. She looked great.

Here is what I recieved Jim's wife ( DALE WOLFSON)....

 There was never a formal obituary nor a funeral for Jim.  He was a cadaver donation.  I have held two memorials for him, one in Sarasota and one in Ann Arbor and will be holding a third in Chambersburg, PA, where we lived for 18 years, in September.  I'll try to make this short.

Jim Wolfson passed away on November 18, 2015 in Sarasota, Florida.  Although he had been ill for several months, his death was still unexpected. 

After leaving Shaker Heights High School in 1968, Jim attended the University of Michigan, receiving degrees in industrial engineering and an MBA in accounting.  At Michigan he met me ,his wife, Dale Marder Wolfson, and we were married for 45 years.

We lived in several places during those 45 years, including Tucson, Sarasota, Cleveland and Chambersburg, PA.  It was in Chambersburg that Jim had some of his greatest achievements.  He became what you could call a big fish in a very small pond.  Chambersburg has the dubious distinction of being the only town in the North that was burned to the ground by the Confederacy after they came demanding money and the townspeople refused to pay.  Jim immersed himself in the Civil War history of the area and gave much time to the minority and Jewish community.  He was responsible for restoring the historic Jewish cemetery in Chambersburg, where the only Confederate Jewish soldier can be found buried in a northern cemetery, and relentlessly sought and received five historical markers for the borough.  After writing several grants and starting in 2004, Jim was the executive director of a federally funded after-school program for students at risk in the Chambersburg Area School District, where he touched the lives of many children and their families.

Jim was always grateful for the experiences he had growing up in Shaker Heights and credited his education with allowing him to impact so many people in such a positive way.

Our children, Rebecca and Mandy, and I miss him very much, but we take great comfort in knowing that his life had meaning for many.  We are grateful that he had the years he had to live the life he lived. 

Dale Wolfson