Stanley Blumenthal RIP

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

This is Stanley Blumenthal's son, Allen. The family wanted to inform you our Dad died peacefully and in his bed as he wanted on Sunday

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Radio Officer Stanley Blumenthal was born 100 years ago and was a WWII Merchant Marine veteran. 

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/north-lauderdale-fl/stanley-blumenthal-12497130

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 II, 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 efficient; and as a projectionist.

In the late 1970s, he rejoined the Merch Marines, serving until he was 86, includi Desert Storm. Helen died in 1998, after 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 ork 11024. Donations can also be made online at https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1860/18/interior.aspx?sid=1860&gid=2&pgid=6

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025, 9:36 AM Michael Zbrozek <k8...@verizon.net> wrote:

Dave -

Was Stanley over 100 years old? I think you have mentioned him before?

73

Mike K8XF

On Friday, August 29, 2025 at 09:30:04 AM EDT, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1...@arrl.net> wrote:

This is Stanley Blumenthal's son, Allen. The family wanted to inform you our Dad died peacefully and in his bed as he wanted on Sunday

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