[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 35 (Wednesday, March 25, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E471]
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                       IN MEMORY OF JEAN KLETZKY

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                           HON. PETER DEUTSCH

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 25, 1998

  Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the late Jewish 
community leader, Jean Kletzky. Jean Kletzky was known throughout the 
community as a woman who truly loved her community and made a lifelong 
commitment to community service. When she retired to Florida in 1979 
from New Jersey, she became immediately active in supporting 
humanitarian causes in South Florida.
  Jean Kletzky will be remembered as a listener, a teacher, and a 
person whose understanding of people and things is admired. Her 
companion of 18 years, Daniel D. Cantor, regarded her as an 
intelligent, alert, and strong woman who was responsible for helping 
fulfill his aspirations and dreams. Together they built the Daniel D. 
Cantor Senior Center in Sunrise, Florida. The center provides senior 
citizens more than 65 daily functions including a food service, an 
Alzheimer division, an elderly division, a wandering garden, support 
networks, and myriad cultural activities. The belief behind the center 
is that life begins at 65 and people who participate at the center 
realize that being elderly does not make them old. The Daniel D. Cantor 
Senior Center offers people a place that gives them life, happiness, 
and more hope than they would normally have outside the center.
  Among her many philanthropic accomplishments, Jean Kletzky served as 
an administrative assistant to the director of the Retired Teacher's 
Union of Florida for ten years. She also shared her wonderful sense of 
style and interior decorating with her friends and family to help them 
create beautiful homes. And, she was responsible for successfully 
directing the fund-raising campaign for the construction of the Daniel 
D. Cantor Senior Center.
  Jean Kletzky was a member of the National Women's League for Israel, 
Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options (JAFCO), City of Hope, National 
Council of Jewish Women, Women's Division of the Jewish Federation of 
Broward County, and was an Endowed Lion through the Jewish Community 
Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Broward County.
  The people of Broward County will sorely miss Jean Kletzky. 
Throughout her life those who knew her regarded her as a driven leader, 
a humanitarian, a friend, a wonderful bridge player, a mother, and a 
wife. Now, she is remembered as a heroine to the residents of South 
Florida.

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