Raymond Ehrenreich |
| Posted 2009-12-04 by Pat Wilson |
| Private funeral services were held Sunday, April 5, 1992, for Raymond Ehrenreich, 92, longtime president and chairman of the board of Riverside Men's Quality Shop and a community leader in Buffalo, NY, who helped send Riverside-area youths to college. Ehrenreich, a North Buffalo resident almost his entire life until he moved to Arizona following his retirement, died Friday (April 3, 1992) in Buffalo General Hospital. A Utica native, Ehrenreich moved to Buffalo as a child and graduated from the old Technical High School before earning his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1923. Later that year, he went to work for his father, Samuel Ehrenreich, the founder of Riverside Men's Shop. Over the next half century, Raymond and his brother David expanded and modernized the family business, which still operates at 783 Tonawanda St. Ehrenreich retired and moved to Phoenix in 1980, when his nephew, Neil H. Ehrenreich, succeeded him as president and chairman of the board. Starting in the early 1950s, Ehrenreich became a benefactor of numerous students from the Riverside area of the city who otherwise couldn't afford to go to college or graduate school. Among his other community activities, he was active for almost 20 years with Troop 7 of the Boy Scouts of America, he served as a guest lecturer in retailing and marketing at the University at Buffalo, and he was a 33rd-degree Mason. He also was a longtime member of Temple Beth Zion. Surviving are a daughter, Margery Rabow of Sarasota, Fla; two sons, Dr. Donald L. Ehrenreich of Snyder and Arthur D. Ehrenreich of Phoenix ; a brother, Milton of Silver Spring, Md.; nine grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren. Ehrenreich's wife of 62 years, Sara Dautch Ehrenreich, died in 1986. The Arizona Republic April 6, 1992 |
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