Sheldon Jack Dansiger was born in Brooklyn on March 9, 1935. He went to Stuyvesant High School and then to Brooklyn College. He started working in the computer field in the early 1960s when computers were still a block long. He started a computer consulting company of his own and then built the company up with two partners. He was quoted in the Wall Street Journal in those early days as an expert in the field. Sheldon was a skilled manager of his businesses and his employees, and he enjoyed going to work and building and leading teams of salespeople and recruiters. Most of all, he loved being with his family, and spent a great amount of his time with his children, having rejected promotions and opportunities that would have had him traveling and taken him away from his family. He coached his son Stephen in basketball and baseball, and coached his daughters Lisa and Abby as well. He was the coach that made sure everyone played and had a good time. He was deeply proud of all three of his children.
Even more dear to him was his wife of 48 years, Marcia, who passed away in 2010. They were absolutely inseparable for all of those years, as they moved from Brooklyn to Long Island and finally to New Jersey when the nest emptied.
Sheldon had a number of interests. For years he was a weekend warrior on the basketball court, playing pick up games until his hips no longer allowed him to do so. He played poker at a skill level that made you not want to play with him because you would probably lose. He followed his favorite teams throughout his life, including the hapless Knicks. He was an avid music lover, and was the family DJ on Sunday mornings, and then became a VJ at Bella Terra where he spent his later years. And as all who loved him know, he was a lover of comedy, a lover of laughter. He raised his children to laugh, and he made his wife laugh. He was the embodiment of something a professional comedian once said to Sheldon’s son: “Why be a professional comedian when you can just be funny and make your friends happy?”
Sheldon is survived by his daughter Abby and son-in-law Will; his daughter Lisa and son-in-law Dustin; and his son Stephen, daughter-in-law Sabrina, and granddaughter Sadie.
