Daniel Isidore Koplowitz

Daniel Isidore Koplowitz, 97, passed away in Morristown, New Jersey on Sunday November 18,2012, a few weeks after celebrating his birthday with family members. He was born November 1, 1915 in the Bronx to the late Louis and Yetta Koplowitz, Yiddish speaking Jewish Immigrants from the Russian Empire.

He grew up the eldest of three siblings in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, where he assisted in his father’s tailor shop. Upon graduating high school he enrolled in City College of New York. He graduated with a degree in chemistry in City College’s famed class of 1937, a class which contained four future Nobel Prize winners (a fact he took great pride in).

He worked as a draftsman for the Army Corps of Engineers in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II. He had a passion for accounting and did cost accounting for the Federal Housing Administration, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the National Bureau of Standard, where he worked as a draftsman, which took him to Washington D.C., and the more distant Iceland, Greenland and Labrador.

He met the late Beatrice Koplowitz, nee Rothman, in 1937 at a summer hotel in upstate New York. They married in 1940 and had a long and successful marriage. They split their time between Queens and Florida until her death in June 2011. He was especially close with his beloved brother, David, and his beloved sister, Edith, who predeceased him in May 2008.

He will be remembered for his good naturedness, and extraordinary sense of humor. After the Holocaust he helped survivors settling in the United States. To the end, he doled out advice to family members. He also loved to play bridge, listen to opera, read murder mysteries, and watch Bugs Bunny and the Marx Brothers.

He is survived by his loving brother David; two loving daughters, Jean and Doris; two sons-in-law, Peter and Stuart; and five beloved grandchildren, Michael, Eric and his wife Sharon, Andrew and his wife Krista, Benjamin, and Gregory; as well as nieces and nephews.