Obituaries

Richard Tucker, Owner of Building Companies, Dies at 78

Richard "Dick" Tucker, 78, died Aug. 30. Born in Wynnefield in 1933, Tucker graduated from Overbrook High School and Temple University. Tucker's real estate career spanned more than 50 years, beginning as a runner for Lanard and Axilbund. He was drafted into the U.S. Army at the end of the Korean War. Eventually, he started an industrial real estate company,...

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Mildred Gordon, 77, Psychiatrist

Mildred Gordon, 77, a psychiatrist, died Aug. 11, at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center. Born in Philadelphia, Gordon was a graduate of Girl's High School. She earned a degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956. Gordon moved to Reading, Pa., in 1957, where she was employed as a chemist at the Bollman Hat Company. She then...

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Bernard Glassman, 74, Tax Attorney

Bernard Glassman, 74, an attorney who specialized in tax and estate law, died Aug. 18 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He was a resident of Elkins Park. Glassman was a senior counsel at the Blank Rome law firm in Philadelphia and a former chairman of the firm's estate and tax department. He was instrumental in developing the firm's...

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Leonard J. Levick, 89, Physician

Leonard Jordan Levick, 89, a physician, died Aug. 24. Levick graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1946 and took his internship and residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Northern Division, in Philadelphia. He was also a retired captain in the U.S. Army. Feeling the need for a greater challenge, Levick took a year off to study at Sloan Kettering Hospital...

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Jerome Shestack, Noted Attorney and Communal Force, Dies at 88

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Deborah Hirsch

Philadelphia attorney Jerome J. Shestack -- a mentor, poetry afficionado, American history buff, and, in his wife's favorite descriptor, "the pied piper of just causes" -- died of kidney failure on Thursday, Aug. 18, at his Center City home. From his first campaigns for law schools to grant women and blacks admission, the 88-year-old human rights leader never stopped --...