Philip B Knobel

Philip Bernard Knobel of Delray Beach, Florida, died of arterioschlerotic cardiovascular disease and hypertensive nephrosclerosis on May 11, 2023, at AdviniaCare Paddock Ridge in Ocala, Florida.

Phil was born in New York on July 29, 1927, the son of Louis Knobel and Lillian Knobel. After living as a child in New York, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Jacksonville and Miami, he returned to New York and attended Far Rockaway High School in Queens and Lawrence High School on Long Island. He joined the Coast Guard and served on the Orchid, a buoy tender. After receiving an honorable discharge, Phil graduated from Lawrence High and enrolled at what is now Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, New York. He transferred to what is now Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, where he majored in accounting and received a bachelor of business administration.

After working as a cook for Jimmy's Restaurant, a family business in Suffern, New York, he held accounting, controlling and auditing jobs with Schenley Industries, RKO Theatres, Century Theatres, Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue and Zale Corporation before retiring in 1987. Phil married the former Suzanne Berkowitz on January 25, 1953; they lived together in Suffern, Forest Hills, Plainview, Bayside and Douglaston, New York, through 1987; in Heritage Village in Southbury, Connecticut, through 1995; and in the Lakes of Delray in Delray Beach until Sue's death in November 2019. Phil then lived at Grand Villa of Delray West. He was a Little League baseball manager in Mid-Queens Athletic Club and a president of the Trowbridge C Condominium Association. Phil was a lifelong sports fan, a devout newspaper reader and an avid walker.

Survivors include two sons, Andrew Knobel and his wife, Julie Steinberg, of Columbia, Maryland, and Robert Knobel and his wife, Penny Knobel, of Ocala; two grandsons, Alex Knobel of Washington, D.C., and Josh Knobel of Ocala; and a granddaughter, Rachel Knobel of Baltimore.

Services and entombment were at I.J. Morris at Star of David Cemetery of the Palm Beaches, 9321 Memorial Park Road, Palm Beach Gardens. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hospice of Marion County, Parkinson's Foundation or American Cochlear Implant Alliance.

Published by Legacy Remembers from May 15 to May 17, 2023.

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