Wallace Rosenthal 1922 - 1996

ROSENTHAL, SHINDLER, LEVITT

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Date: 6/1/2017 at 00:56:30

Sioux City Journal
20 April 1996

Rosenthal, 73, food company chairman, dies

Wallace Rosenthal, 73, of Sioux City, chairman of the board and past president of Rosenthal Foods, died Thursday, April 18, 1996 at a Sioux City hospital following a brief illness.

Services will be 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Congregation Beth Shalom, 815 38th St., with Spiritual Leader James Sherman officiating. Burial will be in Independent Farane Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Rosenthal was born August 20, 1922 in Sioux City, the son of Joe and Ida Rosenthal. He graduated from Central High School in 1940 and served in the United States Army during World War II. He married Lorraine Shindler on August 21, 1949, in Sioux City. She died November 4, 1977, in Sioux City. He married Nancy Levitt on August 12, 1979, in Sioux City. Mr. Rosenthal had been president of Rosenthal Foods Corporation for many years, and was chairman of the board at the time of his death.

Mr. Rosenthal was a member and past president of Mount Sinai Temple. He was also a member of the noon Lions Club, Landmark Lodge 103 A.F. & A.M., Scottish Rite Bodies and the Abu Bekr Shrine.

Survivors include his wife, Nancy; their children, Craig and his wife Kay Rosenthal of Boca Raton, Fla., Robin and her husband John Siegel of Orlando, Fla., Brent and his wife Diane Rosenthal, and Jamie Rosenthal, all of Sioux City, Janet and her husband Jim Stevenson of Santa Barbara, California, Thomas Levin of David City, California and Bonnie and her husband Arvin Weiss of Denver, Colorado; a brother and his wife, Harold and Doris and a sister and her husband, Estelle and James Sherman, all of Sioux City and 16 grandchildren.

He was also preceded in death by a brother, Bernard Rosenthal.

Memorials may be given in his name to Congregation Beth Shalom or the Sioux City Boys Club.