Judge Samuel S. GOLDSTEIN

GOLDSTEIN, Judge Samuel S.


Judge Samuel S. Goldstein, husband of Roberta, passed away on Friday, (February 15, 2013), at Saint Francis Hospital after a long illness. Born in Hartford to Harry and Rose Kalin, He attended Trinity College. Being drafted into the Army Air Corp interrupted his studies. He served two years in France and Scotland. He returned to Trinity to graduate Phi Beta Kappa. He then entered and graduated from Yale Law School. He and his wife of 55 years have lived in West Hartford for 55 years. For a term he was Corporation Counsel. He won high praise from both the Town Council and the local press for his service to West Hartford. The Judge had an intense work ethic and a scholarly devotion to the law. His most treasured rewards were letters from very young children that thanked him with crayon drawings for helping to make them happy. Judge Goldstein has been a member of the Connecticut Bar since 1951 and was admitted to practice in the federal system including the United States Supreme Court, Judge Goldstein served as Corporation Counsel for the Town of West Hartford from 1967 to 1969 and was a member of the 1971 West Hartford Charter Revision Commission. He also served as a member of the Interlocal Agreefnent Commission on 1971-1972 to create a regional refuse disposal plan. He was a member of the Connecticut Transportation Authority. Prior to his appointment, Judge Goldstein had on several occasions been designated by governors Grasso and O'Neil to serve as a substitute member of the Board of Pardons. As an attorney, Judge Goldstein was an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, specializing in construction contract disputes. Judge Goldstein presided in the Superior Court Housing Session at Hartford for 29 months. On May 21, 1986 he was a speaker at the Connecticut Bar Association CLE Seminar on "Dissolution of the Landlord-Tenant Relationship". In March 1988 he was moderator of a panel sponsored by the Connecticut Bar Associations Young Lawyer Section on "The High Cost of Housing", and he has also spoken to community groups on summary process. Judge Goldstein and the Housing Session were featured in the Jan. 11, 1987 Hartford Courant Northeast magazine cover story on the "Court of Last Report". Judge Goldstein has also had extensive service as a family and juvenile judge. He was a member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. In 1987, he served on the faculty of the Connecticut Judges Institute on "Children as Witnesses in Criminal, Neglect and Sexual Abuse Cases". He also participated in 1985 in a Connecticut Bar Association Juvenile Justice Committee seminar. Judge Goldstein was a speaker on July 11, 1987 at the University of Hartford Taft Seminar for Teachers. Judge Goldstein is a member of the Hartford County, the Connecticut, and the American Ear Associations. He was president of the Connecticut Rose society. An avid grower of roses, he called it a "two person activity". Roberta debuds, cuts and arranges the roses and is in charge of refrigeration where roses are retarded until needed. When he met Roberta she introduced him to the lighter side of life and he joined her in the love of afghan hounds, art and a blue 1953 MG for fun. When they traveled the world for new adventures Roberta always tried to include visits to various courts. We would like to thank Dr. Swphart Milewski for keeping Sam comfortable and at home for such a length of time. We could not have done it without him! Our thanks also go to friends Anne and Earle Stone for being there for us whenever and whatever we needed them. They both helped to keep Roberta going. Someone up there was looking after us when we were introduced to such a caring and unique couple. Theirs is the true spirit of "love thy neighbor".
Funeral services were held privately, graveside in the Memorial Park of the B'nai Jacob Synagogue of Woodbridge, CT, where Roberta's family has their family plot. Sam will be buried next to his favorite mother in law (Roberta's mom). The Judge was also a member of the Emanuel Synagogue, West Hartford, A private period of mourning follows. Funeral services in care of the Robert E. Shure Funeral Home, New Haven.