Benjamin Scharf

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Benjamin Scharf Business owner, Navy veteran, lived most of his life in Highland Park Benjamin Scharf of Boca Raton, Fla., passed away on Jan. 20. Funeral service will be at Crabiel Parkwest Funeral Chapel, 239 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, N,J,m at 2 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. Interment to follow at Washington Cemetery, south Brunswick, N.J. Mr. Scharf was born to Morris Scharf and Anna Greenberg Scharf in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1927. His family moved to Highland Park, N.J., in 1930, where he spent most of his life. He graduated from Highland Park High School in 1945 and, after a short time in the Navy at the end of World War II, earned a BS in Business Administration from Rutgers College in 1950. While working at Sears Roebuck in New York in the early 1960s, he founded Cheerette, Inc. of New Brunswick, N.J., which manufactured custom cheerleading uniforms for schools across the country. After leaving Sears, he founded Scharf Incorporated, a dress contracting firm ultimately having six factories in New Jersey and upstate New York and TeamTogs, an athletic uniform manufacturing company. He retired to Boca Raton, Fla., in 1995. He was a longtime member of the Jewish War Veterans Post 133 and served for three years on the Board of Education in Highland Park. He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Shirley Sauber Scharf; a brother, Fred Scharf of Brooklyn, N.Y., and his three children, Dr. Stephen (Helene) Scharf of New Rochelle, N.Y., Dr. Henry (Lisa) Scharf of Cranbury, N.J., and Carol (Barry) Hartman of Chevy Chase, Md., as well as eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.

Fonte: Newark Star Ledger

Publicado em: 22-01-2018