03/08/08 - NNHS Newsletter -
Morris Sandler

Morris Sandler
(d. 6 Mar 2008)

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Morris Sandler, longtime resident of Newport News, died on March 6, 2008, at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton, Fla., at age 94, surrounded by his loving family.

Born in New York City, he moved to Virginia in 1948, where he worked in a family owned furniture business before becoming a real estate broker. An active member of B'nai Israel Synagogue in Hampton, he served as chairman of the building committee for many years and was president of the Forum, a vibrant club devoted to arts and letters. His own art work was displayed locally at The Peninsula Museum in community based shows and is valued in many privately owned folk art collections. Following the death of his beloved wife, Rose Sandler in 2000, he moved to Boca Raton, where he became active in the Century Village Democratic Club and American Society of Mogen David. In summers, he studied at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and San Diego State University in the senior programs and was also a summer resident of Nantucket Island, Mass.

He is survived by his daughter, Susan Sandler Conlon, and son-in-law, Hugh Conlon, of New York City; his son, Theodore of Newport News; and his sister, Ida Vogel of Boca Raton.

Donations in his honor can be made to the B'nai Israel Synagogue, 3116 Kecoughtan Road, Hampton, VA 23661.

A graveside service will be held at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, March 9, by Rabbi Norman M. Golner, in the Jewish Cemetery of the Virginia Peninsula in Hampton, Va.

Peninsula Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Published in the Daily Press on 3/8/2008.
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