Tributes

Doris and Joel Abramson:

We are so very sorry at this sad news. Our deepest sympathies.

Rachel and Jonathan Albert:

We just returned from vacation and learned of your father's death. We send our belated condolences. May your father rest in peace. Take care.

Sherry and Alan Angel and Family:

We were very sorry to hear of the passing of Alan's father. May you be comforted among the mourners of Zion. Our thoughts are with you.

Trudy Balizer:

Please know that though I can't be there today in body, I'm there in spirit. Today is a sad day but also a day to celebrate the life of this very special man, your dad and grandfather. I know you will all honor him by continuing his legacy of life, Please tell him good by for me and mostly tell him thank you from all the Eislers and Balizers.

I love you all, Trudy

Philip Bieler:

Please tell Alan that we are very sorry to hear the news and of course our thoughts are with him as well as you and Audrey.

Ruthe and Max Brimberg:

How unhappy we are with the death of your father. It has sent us into a deep depression although I suppose we should have been prepared for it.

I guess we have known him for well over 50 years and I am sure that my brother married Toby in large part because he saw the wonderful relationship of Hannah and Sol. How could anyone resist a family that spread joy the way they did.

Ruthe and I knew that whenever that smiling, talented, and optimistic Sol was around we would have an interesting and wonderful life experience.

It is a cliche that is overused but in your fathers case it is true...he will be remembered with joy as long as people who knew him are alive and for Ruthe and me he will be unforgettable.

We loved him and are proud of the way his children cared for him during this very difficult time.

Patricia Broderick:

I am very sorry to hear this, and send my condolences to you and your family. From everything you've shared about your grandfather, I know he was a special person and very important to your family, and I appreciated the opportunity to get to know him a little bit.

I will keep you and your family in my thoughts in the days ahead. Remember to take good care of yourself.

Steve Brody:

Very sorry to hear about Sol - he was an inspiration to me of what a senior should be

Linda and Myron Calderon and Family:

We feel so sorry, but we also know how he felt about spending his life as he was. He was unable to muster the strength to go on. We wanted him so much to, but after 95 years it must have been so difficult, although he was courageous enough to go trhough with the operation and give it a try!!!
He lived life to the fullest and had a wonderful time. After all, he had a wife he adored for so many years, and, of course, his children and grandchildren. He loved to bike, play in his garden, dance, as we all know, play his fiddle and just ENJOY life, especially when we would be in Florida and take him out for breakfast and he would have the bacon - well, why not???
We love him so very much and will miss him and think of him often.
We send our sincerest condolences to the whole family. You certainly did your utmost to take such wonderful care of him.

Dina and Peter Chak:

Please, accept our deepest condolences. Thinking about you and wishing you to have good year ahead.

Estelle and Seymour Dombroff:

Estelle and I have lost a good friend of over 50 years duration. need not tell you of his many talents and zest for life.Please convey our condolence to Evie and thanks for keeping us up to date on your Dad's situation.

Cleveland Donald:

Alan mentioned his father's illness to me over two weeks. Though I never met his father, I know of Alan's love for him. Please accept our joy to know that he is at peace.

Amber Espar:

Big hugs to you and your family. I have so loved getting to know your grandpa through your stories in these last months and my heart goes out to all of you — what a wonderful man! I know you loved him dearly!

Carrie and Mike Falk and Beth El:

We have been saying a mishabera for him. May he rest in peace. Please accept our deepest sympathy.

Ariel J. Friedlander:

I was so sorry to hear of your loss. My condolences to you and your family at this sad time. May you be comforted with the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

Evarist Giné:

My condolences and sympathy on your father's death. Not because they are not avoidable, these things are less painful.

Sarah Glaz:

I am so sorry to hear that your father passed away. You have my deepest sympathy and condolences. I hope that having your loving family around you at this painful time makes the sad occasion a little easier to bear.

Dan Goodman:

Condolences on the death of your Dad.

Estelle Gottesman:

My memories are all such good ones. Only a couple of years ago , I watched Sol teaching dance to a bunch of seniors at a pool club. He looked so happy and alive.

I remember the good times when we went to Buffalo to visit Morty and Toby and my sister and brother-in-law. We had such a great time we repeated it by going to Boston the next year. We could never find our motel at the end of the day. We laughed so hard the tears came.

Your mother, I remember her giving Sam xome rasberries from her garden. She said they might just help Sam's arthritis. Such kindness!

I will always have these mamories as will you. I know they are up there dancing away.

Irene Gottlieb:

Am so sorry to hear of your dad's passing. Please accept my sincere condolences and extend them to your families.

I know he had a fantastic 95 years. He was a gem. As I remember him and your mom, I go back to my school years and think about the times when on my way home from PS 83 stopping off at your home.

Jimmy Griffin:

I send my deepest sympathy and love to all of your family and may you blessed with peace during these sad days ahead.

Eliana and Gaston Hernandez:

We are all so sorry to hear the sad news of your father passing. Please accept our sincere condolences.

Sarah Schlissel Hodges:

I am so sorry for your loss. I loved Uncle Sol, we all did. He was a great man and always so spirited. He will be missed by everyone who knew him. My regards and love to your family at this time.

Brenda and Tom Kelley:

Solomon was an incredible man. Your family has much good to remember and cherish.

Joel Kirman:

Re: Your Dad - I was prompted to think of the couplet from a poem by Alexander Pope:

A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod;

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

May we meet again on happy occasions.

Gert and Morris Kole:

We are so sorryh for your loss. He was a wonderful man and he will be missed. I will always remember his good humor and the joy he had in dancing. He was remarkable in many ways. I could ask him the name of a dance and he would come up with it without a moment's hesitation. We had fun together. He was a good man; always ready to help anyone. Remember hiim with pride.

Cy Levine:

Words can't express the sadness I feel, especially for you and the family who loved Saul so much. I am so happy I got to see him three times before I returned to St. Croix. He ws a special person to me because of his supportive, positive, and energetic spirit. I will miss him vey much. I loved him as I loved your mother. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Hadar Lubin:

Please except our thoughts in the time of your loss.It sounds that he passed on in peace and that is comforting.

Lynn Malkoff:

Please accept our most sincere condolences. We can only hope and pray that warm memories ease the sorrow of the family.

Sima and Cliff Malat:

We are so sorry to hear this. He lived a beautiful life aside from these past few months. Every one close to me should live as full a life as your father did. Please send our condolences to all.

Jacquie Marcus:

My thoughts are with you this week as you grapple with the tremendous loss and grief. I will always remember Uncle Sol for his spirt, kindness, and loving ways. He had a full and rich life, and I know you will come to realize that the blessing of peace is for the best. Love and hugs, Jacquie

Deborah Nadjary:

I'm so sorry for your loss. Sounds to me like Grandpa Sol lived 95 wonderful years and is now at peace. G-d bless him and you and your entire family.

Miki Neumann:

Baruch Dayan Ha'met.

I was saddened to hear the passing away of your father.

With or from the deep pain and the loss there will be after a while the wonderful memories which you told me about, Alan. His memory will be a blessing for you and all you family.

June Neal:

Marsha, I am so sorry for your loss. Knowing you and Alan, I know Alan's dad, of blessed memory, had the joy of a wonderful family, which is the greatest gift of all. May God bless you.

Joel Novak:

I, too, experienced the joy of Sol Stein and for once I am in complete agreement with my cousin, Trudy, and that without any reservations. To Alan and Evey specifically: those who knew your dad can honestly say that we understand your loss - while at the same time we think of how fortunate your lives were for so long.

Carole Perez and Family:

We are deeply saddened to hear of this news. I will remember your father as I saw him in happy times with a gleam in his eyes and lilt in his step...

Randi Pincus:

I am so sorry for your loss. Our thoughts are with you during this difficult time.

Bill Pizzuto:

I am very saddenend to hear about your father's passing. I know that you have been with him both physically and spiritually over these past months. Please know that your friends, colleagues, faculty and staff at Waterbury UConn all send their condolences. My deepest sympathy to you and the entire Stein family.

Rabbi Eric Polokoff:

Our thoughts remain very much with you and Alan during this period of shiva and sheloshim for Alan's dad.

Karen and Eric Prager:

We were saddened to read about Alan's father's passing but also relieved that he no longer is in pain. We know how difficult this has been for the family, so we really hope to be there tomorrow.

Rabbi Shaul Praver:

My heartfelt condolences to you and your family on the Loss of your father. May your father always be remembered for a blessing and may you and yours see happier days very soon.

Blessings of peace.

Judie and Bernie Raab:

Please accept our sincere condolences on the passing of your Dad. He was my first--and really my only--optometrist. He prescribed for my ever-deteriorating eyes for many years, starting in my pre-teens (1940s). Believe it or not, I used to enjoy visiting his office, first of all because he was always so cordial and very patient and competent, but also because I loved looking at the photos on his stereopticon in the waiting room. (I hope you or Evey have it--it must be a valuable antique at this point. I am sure it was a major reason that I eventually bought a stereo camera!) After I was married, I brought Judie to his offfice as well, then in Manhattan, and he treated both of us. We both felt that beyond his professionalism, he was very caring, and if that was because we were family, that was OK too. (After we moved to Maryland in 1972, we became friendly with an opthalmologist, so, therefore, your Dad was my only optometrist!)

Outside of the office, generally at Schlissel Family Circle meetings, I always enjoyed talking to Sol. He was intelligent and sensible, of course, and had something interesting to say on a wide variety of subjects. Beyond that, he was always interested and engaged in the conversation, so that when you spoke to Sol you always ended up believing that you were interesting as well, a rare ability.

Hannah and Sol were very special people, and we will always remember them fondly. May you and Evey be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

Robyn and Al Randzin

I am so sorry about Uncle Sol. It's hard to believe that anything could have stopped his vital energy and loving spirit on this earthly plain. The memories we all share of his unconditional, non-judgmental love and contagious pleasure in life will stay with us always. The vision in my mind is of him wearing an apron, standing beside Uncle Morty as they carved the Passover turkeys. May the memories of the last four months fade and the memories of the past years stay vibrant and alive in your hearts and minds.

Andrea Ranger:

I am sorry to hear of your grandfather's passing. From your various stories and descriptions, he sounds like a lovely man who really lived with zest and had great personal warmth. I wish you and your family the best as you prepare for services and think on his life and spirit.

Elissa Rosenthal:

I'm Elissa, Sid's daughter and a friend of your dad's. I'm so sorry to hear of his passing. Sol was a good friend of my father's and I enjoyed my visits, phone calls and emails with him as well. I will always remember his upbeat voice, witty banter ("How are you feeling? Not as good as when I was 94!") and boundless energy.

It was comforting to know that when alone in Queens or DelRay, there was a loyal friend checking in on my father, someone he could share lunch or dinner with and have a "happy hour" together (I used to refer to them as "drinking buddies"). It is wonderful that he had 95 years of life, filled with happiness, naches and fun in mostly good health.

I'm sorry that I am unable to join you at his memorial, however I am there in spirit and via my dad, brother and Thomas. Sol will be missed by us all.

May he rest in peace.

Lisa, Kenny, Daniel and Ilana Rudolph:

Baruch Dayan Emet. Our prayers and thoughts are with you. Uncle Sol was one of a kind. We loved him very much and will miss him. We remember him with love and so many fond memories. He is at peace now and with Aunt Hannah. We should all be able to live such a full, wonderful life

Shirley Russ and Family

Your parents were my friends and very dear to me. I missed Hannah my bridge playing partner, fellow folk dancer and dinner eats and Sol was right there besides her - always steady, helpful and there for me. Last January he came with me, just to listen, to Dr. Bruce Seigel talk about my cataracts and corneas. He said I had a 50/50 chance doing each separately. Sol said go to it and i did.

Both cataracts done and am in good stable condition with other. If it were not for Sol I would still be looking for more opintions.

I will miss them both.

Victor Schiavi:

I am very sorry to hear about your father's passing. Kris and I would like to send our condolences to you and your family. All of you are in our thoughts.

Dara Schlissel:

My heart and thoughts, and my most sincere condolences are with you - us - all. Us, because we will all be confronted now by the absence of our dear Uncle Sol's light.
Much love from across the globe

Judy and Joel Sherman:

Our condolences to Alan. We are so sorry to hear of his father's death. We fully understand what he is going through, since Joel's mother died exactly one year ago, the morning of Christmas Eve Day. This is a difficult time for all, but yet we are glad that their suffering is over and they are at peace. Our thoughts are with you at this time.

Kenneth Sikorski and Family:

Please accept my deep condolences. I have just received news of your Father's passing. Though I never had the honor and the pleasure to know your father, nonetheless, I was very sorry to hear about his passing away. Such a great loss weighs heaviest for those with the fondest of memories for the departed, may they help you and your family find comfort in your time of sorrow and mourning.

Hagit Schlissel Toledano

I wanted to say how sorry we where to get the bad news; your father was a very special men and even though we didn't get much to know him he has a very special and meaningful place in our heart.

I am very sorry we are not there to support you.

Big Hugs.

George Steinfeld:

My condolences on the loss of your father.

Delores Turman:

I am sorry that I just opened my email regarding Alan's father death. If I can do anything that could do to make this most difficult time easier for the family and Alan, please let me know.

Roz and Sol Wieselthier:

Both Sol Jr. and I would like to express our condolences to you and your family upon the passing of your dear father, Sol Sr. Unfortunately we were unable to attend the funeral since we were in Ohio for the holiday week visiting our daughter. We would like to thank you and Evey for keeping us up to date on his condition during those trying months.

Mr. & Mrs. Ilya Yuabov and Mark Yuabov:

Please accept our condolences on the passing of your father.

Yolande and Steve Zahler:

The news of your dad's passing has deeply touched us. He was a gentle man and always the perfect gentleman. I had great reverence for your Dad, a remarkably talented and educated man, and enjoyed those too few opportunities when we would come to Flushing to visit the Eislers and spend a little time with you and your folks. I remember his infectious laughter. His funny jokes. I remember his "yidishkite." His enormous love of life and family. His depth of human kindness.

In this time of sadness, may you take pleasure in the knowledge of the enormous affection and fondness so many many people felt for you dad, and may you be comforted by the cherished memories you have of him and your wonderful family.