BENJAMIN HAMMERMAN

HAMMERMAN--Benjamin October 31, 1919 - March 18, 2015. Son of Louis and Rose Hammerman. Born on the Lower East Side, he walked from Rivington St. to Stuyvesant HS ('36) and was a math and physics major at Brooklyn College ('40). Enlisted in the US Army 1941 and honorably discharged as a Second Lieutenant October 1945. He saw combat in the East Indies, Guadalcanal and Papaun New Guinea and was awarded a Bronze Star. When his brothers Hy and Bernard also returned from their extensive army service in Europe. The three brothers were united again and together worked endlessly to develop what became the successful Hammerman Brothers, Manufacturers of Fine Jewelry and later developed the Kelman Casting Co. Survived by his beloved Lorelei, their children, Judith and Lawrence Weiss, Hillel and Caren Hammerman, Deborah and Richard Born, their ten grandchildren, Alexander, Jonathan, Jessica, Daniel, Rachel, Emily, Leah, Caroline, Jennifer and Max and eight great-grandchildren. His brother David deeply mourns his loss. Their other siblings, Hyman, Bernard and Goldie have passed. He was an uncommon man; analytic but sensitive, confident but quiet, and rincipled but practical. His long healthy life was filled with useful activity, maturity, patience, fairness, devotion to what was right and generosity. Funeral at Fifth Ave Synagogue, 5 East 62nd St., on Thursday, March 19th, Noon.

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