KAZENELSON, Gregorio, Dr. 1934-2006
KAZENELSON, BUK, COHEN, SMITH, DEANE, MILLER, ROOSE, SCHELLHORN
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 3/11/2014 at 21:54:01
[Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Wednesday, April 26, 2006]
WATERLOO - Dr. Gregorio Kazenelson, 71, distinguished local Pediatric Cardiologist of Waterloo, died on Monday, April 24, 2006, at the USC University Hospital in Los Angeles California.
Gregorio was born on Sept. 10, 1934, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, son of Jacobo and Eva (Buk) Kazenelson. He pursued his medical education in Argentina culminating in his first job as a physician at the Polio Institute in Buenos Aires where he decided to pursue a specialty in pediatrics. In June 1960, he married Mirtha Cohen, with whom he bore and raised two beautiful children, Deborah and Kenneth. They were later divorced. His continued passion for medicine brought Gregorio and his family to the United States where he accomplished an internship at Mount Sinai (Minneapolis, MN), residency at the Buffalo Children's Hospital, a Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, and a research fellowship at UCLA. He then went on to private practice in Southern California and did two years of research in Toronto, Canada, before moving to Waterloo, Iowa, in 1977.
For 23 years, Gregorio maintained a private practice where he served the children and families of the Cedar Valley, providing extraordinary pediatric medical care including revolutionary treatments in the area of pediatric cardiology. On Dec. 18, 1986, Gregorio was united in marriage to Bobbi Smith. After more than 40 years of medical service, including three years as the Chief Medical Officer at Covenant Medical Center, Gregorio retired in 2000, leaving a long and distinguished legacy of healthy children and happy families.
Gregorio's passions were his wife, his children, his grandchildren, patients, colleagues, coworkers, and Shana, his Great Dane. He was an active member of the Sons of Jacob Synagogue, and was passionate about his religion, its history, and maintaining its vitality for future generations. He loved the arts and was very active with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra. As a way to combine two passions, the arts and medicine, he developed and delivered several presentations in the past few years on "Music & Medicine" discussing the great composers in history and the medical maladies from which they suffered.
More than anything else, Gregorio loved helping people and had a profound impact on countless lives because of his knowledge, passion, hard work and generosity.
He is survived by his wife, Bobbi Kazenelson; his daughter, Deborah Kazenelson-Deane (Jeffrey) of Sherman Oaks, California; his son, Dr. Kenneth (Ruth) Kazenelson of San Clemente, California, and his son, Jacob, at home in Waterloo; and two grandsons, Joshua and Aaron Deane both of Sherman Oaks, California; mother-in-law, Delores Smith of Clarksville, and sisters-in-law, Kathy (Mike) Miller of Fairbank, Terry Roose and Debby (Daryl) Schellhorn both of Clarksville, and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Jacobo and Eva (Buk) Kazenelson.
Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Sons of Jacob Synagogue, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery, both in Waterloo. The family will receive friends after 4:00 p.m. that afternoon, at Sunnyside Country Club.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Sons of Jacob Synagogue, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, and the Covenant Pediatric Cardiology Department. Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup Funeral Service on West Ridgeway, 233-3393, is in charge of arrangements.
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