Robert Kasriel

Family-Placed Death Notice

Dr. Robert H. Kasriel died peacefully of cancer at the age of 88 on April 24, 2007. He was Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech where he taught for over 30 years. Dr. Kasriel was born in the Ybor City section of Tampa, FL, the third son to David and Sophie Kasriel. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Tampa where he was elected President of the student body. He enlisted in the US Army Air Corps during WWII. While stationed in Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, he met Ernestine Moskowitz. They wed in Mississippi on January 1946, where Bob was teaching in the US Maritime Academy as a Lieutenant (jg). In 1947, he entered graduate school at the University of Virginia and was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1953. After two years as a Federal Government employee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (precursor of NASA) at Langley Field, VA, he moved to Atlanta to join the mathematics faculty at Georgia Tech, where he specialized in topology. In addition to publishing many articles on mathematics, he published an internationally well received text book on topology and supervised a number of graduate dissertations. His honors included the Sigma Xi Ferst Research Award (1962), President of the Georgia Tech chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi (1966-1967) and the Outstanding Teacher Award at Georgia Tech in 1983. He was an active member and former religious school teacher at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Among his retirement activities was volunteer work with Ernestine at the William Bremen Jewish Home. He is survived by his wife Ernestine, his children Sarita and David Kasriel, daughter-in-law Catherine Rhodes Kasriel, grandsons Joseph and Daniel (all of Atlanta), and cousins Mitchell J. Kasriel of St. Petersburg, FL and Bernard and Marilyn Friedkin of Waynesville, NC. Graveside services will be held at 3:30 PM in Arlington Cemetery in Sandy Springs on Thursday April, 26. Sign online guest book: www.edressler.com In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Ahavath Achim Synagogue, The William Bremen Jewish Home, or a charity of your choice. Arrangements by Dressler's Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999.