Florine Boxer
Longtime Denver teacher Florine Boxer died on March 26, 2022. She was 96. A service was held on March 28 at Temple Emanuel Cemetery, officiated by Rabbi Joseph Black. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements.
Mrs. Boxer was born on Dec. 15, 1925 in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she was the only Jewish child in grade school and high school. She attended Women’s College at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and Goucher College in Baltimore, Md.
In 1951, Mrs. Boxer, then a teacher in the Baltimore public school system, married Phillip Boxer. They moved from Baltimore to Denver, where Mr. Boxer’s family owned a restaurant, and remained a couple until Dr. Boxer’s passing in January, 2014.
Mrs. Boxer was one of the first Operation Head Start teachers in Denver, and was an educator in the Denver area until her retirement in 1981.
“She made a lot of home visits with parents,” said Mrs. Boxer’s daughter, Sarah Boxer. “It was a very successful program.”
“Education was absolutely the primary thing in our family,” continued Sarah Boxer, who noted: “Education jobs were of the more common jobs for women in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Perhaps if she was in a different era, she might have become an architect or designer.
“She loved art.”
Survivors include children Susan Boxer and Sarah (Harry Cooper) Boxer; and one grandson, Julius Boxer-Cooper.
Contributions may be made to the Friends of Chamber Music.
David Rozenholc
Holocaust survivor David Rozenholc passed away on March 27, 2022, at the age of 97. A service was held April 3 at Mt. Nebo Memorial Park, officiated by Rabbi Yaakov Chaitovsky and Cantor Martin Goldstein. Arrangements were made by Feldman Mortuary.
Mr. Rozenholc was born in Bedzin, Poland on Nov. 17, 1924. He was imprisoned at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Mr. Rozenholc was later transferred to Auschwitz, and eventually liberated.
“He was a survivor and thriver,” his family said.
Upon leaving Germany, Mr. Rozenholc emigrated to Israel, where he met Brenda Zoberman. They married in 1948, and remained a couple until she died in March, 2013, after 65 years of marriage.
After various jobs – a bricklayer in Israel and France, and as a butcher (slaughtering cattle was previously the family business in Poland) in Canada, Mr. and Mrs. Rozenholc settled in New York. They later moved to Colorado in the early 1970s to enter the liquor business, and then the real estate business.
“He was a self-made man,” said his daughter, Lily Scheurenbrand.
Survivors include children Lily (the late George) Scheurenbrand and Jacob Rozenholc.
Contributions may be made to BMH-BJ.
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