Stanley Blumenthal was born March 6, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York to Frank and Eva Blumenthal, Jewish immigrants. He graduated from Samuel Gompers vocational school in 1943. He joined the Merchant Marines as a radio operator and was assigned his first ship, the Lawrence D. Tyson, on his nineteenth birthday. He served during World War Il, crossing the Atlantic with military supplies. He received a combat bar after his ship shot down a Nazi plane.
After the war, Stanley rode a motorcycle from San Francisco to Brooklyn. in 1953, he married Helen Solomon. They had three children; Gary, Allen, and Susan. He worked for a radio station; a paging company, inventing a device that made the system more efficient; and as a projectionist.
In the late 1970s, he rejoined the Merchant Marines, serving until he was 86, including in Desert Storm. Helen died in 1998, after 46 years of marriage. He traveled all over the world; ran for Congress twice; served on the American Merchant Marines Veterans Association board; in his 70s and 80s, he scuba dived, parachuted out of an airplane, and rode on a Zero Gravity plane. He enjoyed politics, adventures and his children, their spouses, Marc, Jamie, and Charlie, and his grandchildren, David, Raina, Josh, and Matt.
Stanley Blumenthal will be laid to rest in the Herxl X Mausoleum at the Star of David Memorial Gardens Cemetery and Funeral Chapel, located at 7801 Bailey Road, North Lauderdale.
Donations in memory of Stanley Blumenthal may be made to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association and Foundation Inc., 300 Steamboat Road, Kings Point, New York 11024. Donations can also be made online at [this link](https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1860/18/interior.aspx?sid=1860&gid=2&pgid=6).
