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THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1984 29 BDffiBABIIEO Joseph Rizzo, 90; longtime tailor i Helen Worcester, 61 Assistant head nurse Helen (Blossom) Worcester, 64, of Waban, assistant head nurse at Waltham Hospital where she worked 15 years, died Monday in the Waltham Hospital after a long battle with cancer. She was a Navy nurse in World War II in Honolulu. Born in New Bedford, she was graduated from schools there and from the former Massachusetts Memorial Hospital's School of Nursing, now part of University Hospital, in Boston. Mrs.

Worcester was a member of the American Nursing Assn. She was the widow of Dr. John Worcester who died in 1978 in Boston. She leaves two sons, John of Natick and Clark Worcester of Newton; a daughter, Carol Rizza of Norwalk, and a brother, Charles Blossom of Wilmington, and her mother, Annie Blossom of New Bedford. A memorial service will be held in Second Church, Highland street.

West Newton, Saturday at 2 p.m. Burial will be private. Joseph E. Rizzo, 90. of Arlington, a tailor who started his business in Boston's old Scollay Square in 1920.

and made clothes for Brooks Brothers, the Bolter Co. and Chipp, Inc. for many years, died in his home Sunday after a brief illness. Born in Santo Apolllnare, Italy, he came to America In 1909, and according to his son Edward Rizzo of Weston, he started out as both a tailor and barber. "But he found too many barbers were dying of TB when customers breathed in his face, so he stayed with tailoring." On Jan.

29, 1912. he married his wife of nearly 72 years, the former Lena Colizzo who like himself had arrived in East Boston on a ship from Italy. He then worked for other custom tailors in the old Knickerbocker Hotel in Scollay Square (now Government Center.) Mrs. Rizzo died last July. After moving his shop to Harvard Square In Cambridge, he later became a tailor for the Kennedys, John.

Robert and Edward: for the late poet Robert Frost in the last six years of his life; for the late Dr. Sidney Farber, founder of the Jimmy Fund; for President Jerome Weisner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; for members of the Rockefeller family and for members of Adlai Stevenson's family, and for many professors at both Harvard and MIT. his son said. "It began," his son said, "one day when a fellow named Jack Stribling, the prizefighter, came In and asked dad to make a suit for him. "He was in Scollay Square then.

In 1932. he moved to Harvard Square where be became known for years. He was a coat maker, making those coats for Brooks Brothers, the Bolter Company on Milk street, and for Chipp, one of the largest tailoring firms, now in New York City. "About 1938. he began making clothes for his own customers exclusively," Edward Rizzo said.

"It was custom clothing, a little expensive." Mr. Rizzo, who lived in Arlington since 1942, worked until he was 79 years old. retiring in 1973. and sold his "J.E. Rizzo Company" shop to two young men.

Besides his son, he leaves four other sons, Richard of Wayland, Joseph Jr. of Waltham, Francis of Onset and Robert Rizzo of Winchester: four daughters, Mary Mul-lin of Billerlca, Alda Joyce of Worcester, Virginia Dolan of Milton and Eleanor Morris of Middle-borough; four brothers, Frank and Ralph of Arlington. Arthur of Way-land and William of Weston; 25 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. A graveside service will be held in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, today at 10 a.m.

-WILLIAM P. COUGHLIN Arthur Goldstein, decorated colonel, remembered by Dachau survivors SARAH SCHWARTZ Sarah Schwartz, 100; worked until age 82 By WUIiam P. Coughlin Globe Staff Sarah R. (Shwalb) Schwartz of Randolph would have been 101 years old Feb. 25.

Mrs. Schwartz, a former stitcher In Boston's garment industry who fled the pogroms in Latvia in the early part of the century, died Monday InVNewton-WeUesley Hospital. "In recent years, she had been living in the Star of David Nursing Home in West Roxbury. In a news story on her 100th birthday last year, Mrs. Schwartz told an interviewer of her past: One of eight children, she was brought to America by her father, Benjamin Shwalb, when she was 20.

She recalled getting lost in Boston's North End until a "kind man who spoke Yiddish came to me and told me how to reach the address of friends." She was married through a matchmaker in 1908 to a countryman, Elik Schwartz, a shoe who came here two years after Sarah wentlo work in a shoe factory. They were married years when he died. After her husband's death nearly 50 years ago. she turned to work and raising her three children. She worked until she was 82.

"I loved working and would have continued if Cod would help me, she told a reporter in 1983. "I always made my own clothes and those of my family. I never knew how to run a sewing machine. An aunt let me practice on her pedal machine before I applied for a stitcher's Job," shesaid. 7 As' for reaching the century mark, Mrs.

Schwartz said walking and a daily ritual of arm and leg exercises kept her healthy. 1 rrShe leaves a son, Max Schwartz of Swamps-cott; two daughters, Beatrice Reine of West Rox-bury-and Elsie Wilensky of Randolph; six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. service will be held in Workmen's Circle Cemetery in Melrose today at 11 George P. Brett, 91; bought the rights to 'Gone With The Wind' Associated Press SOUTHPORT, Conn. George P.

Brett, a retired Macmillan Co. chairman who made the company millions by buying the first rights to the book, "Gone With The Wind," has died at age 91. Mr. Brett, who died Saturday at his South-port home, personally made about $1 million from Margaret Mitchell's novel about the Civil War. After hearing about the book from one of his editors, Mr.

Brett convinced the author to sell Macmillan the rights to the book in 1935. It was published in the spring of 1936, and became one of the biggest-selling novels of all time. His grandfather. Edward, was sent to the United States in the 1860s by Macmillan a bookseller in Edinburgh, Scotland, to open an office In New York. George Brett ran the company from 1931 to 1958.

He leaves two sons. George P. 3d of Dover, and Bruce Y. Brett of Tequesta, and a brother, Richard M. Brett of Woodstock, Vt; seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will be Friday in South-port. Rev. Roland Bainton Religion scholar, Yale professor, 89 Associated Press NEW HAVEN Rev. Roland H. Bainton.

a leading religion scholar on the history of the Reformation who served on Yale University's faculty 42 years, has died after a long Illness. Rev. Bainton, 89, died Sunday at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He wrote 32 books, 13 of them after his retirement from Yale In 1962. Two of his works, the 1950 biography "Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther" and the Sunday school text "The Church of Our Fathers," have sold over one million copies each.

His works have been translated into 1 1 languages. A graduate of Yale's divinity school, he was Its Titus Street professor emeritus of ecclesiastical history. He was widely known as a lecturer at Yale. "I've always been a rebel," he said in an interview late last year. "I was a radical conservative before I was 4." Rev.

Bainton was one of the subjects of the House Un-American Activities Committee investigations in the 1950s. He was an advocate of peace and worked against hunger, and helped refugees and wounded soldiers in World War I as a conscientious objector. Born in Ilkeston in Derbyshire, England, he moved with his family to Canada and then to the United States as a youngster. He leaves three daughters, two sons, a sister, 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A memorial service at the divinity school Is scheduled March 4.

Henry Ribeck, 67 Owned plumbing and heating firm Henry Ribeck. 67, of Milton, owner of the Power Plumbing and Heating Co. of Boston for more than 40 years, died yesterday in the New England Deaconess Hospital after a brief illness. Born in Chelsea, he attended Dorchester High School and Boston Trade School. At age 21 in 1940, he was licensed as the youngest master plumber and gas fitter at the time.

He had been a consultant to the Boston Fair Housing Assn. and was a member of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce and Temple Shalom of Milton. He leaves his wife. Bernice (Madow) of Milton; a son. Fred Joseph Ribeck of West Rock-port.

Maine: a daughter. Nancy Ribeck of New York City: four sisters, Sally Nove of Winchen-don, Alice Ribeck of Brookline, Beatrice Levine of Brookline and Anna Cohen of Hull, and a grandson. A funeral service will be held in the Schloss-berg-Goldman-SoIomon Funeral Home. 824 Washington st. Canton, tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Burial will be in Sharon Memorial Park. Robbery linked to widow's death PEMBROKE Continued from Page 23 turned home after going to dinner at a restaurant with a friend. The friend, said O'Malley, told investiga tors that Hannon had about $100 in her purse after paying her bill at the restaurant. O'Malley said the money was not in the purse after her body was found Monday. O'Malley said Hannon had inherited a large amount possibly $380,000 several years ago.

He said it was rumored in the neighborhood that she kept money in her home. "This may have led to someone breaking in," O'Malley. said. He said there was no evidence of sexual assault. The district attorney said there are no suspects.

Investigators were at the house yesterday dusting for fingerprints and searching for other leads. O'Malley said neighbors Interviewed by investigators did not report seeing or hearing anything unusual. Joseph Hannon, the victim's father-in-law. said Hannon, a widow, had worked for many years as a cook in the school system. "The kids loved her and she loved them." he said.

"She gave them extra cookies and juice. She was well liked and could have been elected mayor by them We are surprised something like this happened." A neighbor. Barbara Doyle, described the victim as "nice and friendly." She said Hannon often traveled, played bingo and fed the neighborhood cats. "She was Just a nice lady," said Doyle. LEARNING ARTHUR H.

GOLDSTEIN 1 On April 29. 1945, Arthur H. Goldstein, then of Brookline, was officer in charge of the first American Jeep to enter the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany, to liberate it. Many months later a number of newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island. New York, when asked if they knew anyone in the United States, replied: "Yes, we know Col.

Arthur Goldstein of Boston." "To them, he was the most important man in the Army," said Dr. Jules Shaw, a Boston eye surgeon and brother-in-law of Mr. Goldstein who died Sunday at home in Washington. D.C.. at age 80, apparently after a heart attack.

After his Initial Dachau experience. Col. Goldstein became the liaison officer between the liberated concentration camp prisoners and Allied forces, and then spent five years in occupied Germany before tranferrlng to Japan. Dr. Shaw's wife, Samantha, recalled that In later years "some of these refugees came to Brookline to pay respects to my parents, Meyer and Sophia (Weinberg) Goldstein.

They even brought gifts for Col. Goldstein. They called him Col. Goldstein, a native of Brookline, lived there many years before starting his military career. Mr.

Goldstein retired in 1965 as a colonel with 41 years of service. Before starting his Army service, he had been a football star, crewman and Golden Gloves boxer at Boston University where he graduated as an ROTC officer in 1927. He graduated from the old High School of Commerce in 1924. Mr. Goldstein attended Boston University Law School before embarking on his Army career, which was to bring him numerous decorations.

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aI nnnn CO unniii. Mr MAra DUIK lata bam uvfj iwi wjjns ui iirvia I if the Guides are picked up at the Globe by the cus-1 According to Dr. Shaw. Col. Goldstein was presented one of his French crosses by the late Gen.

Charles de Gaulle after the colonel had taken it upon himself to get gasoline for the stranded American general. George S. Patton, whose tanks had become bogged down without fuel during one of the general's celebrated drives toward Berlin. "The incident was when Patton you remember he was a go-to-hell, shoot-'em-up general had extended his lines and had run out of gas." Dr. Shaw said.

"Col. Goldstein went back to where there was gas. organized a motorcycle crew, changed the French route signs to point out Patton's position, and got the gas to Patton." The other Croix de Guerre, Dr. Shaw said, was presented to Col. Goldstein by French General Le-Clerc.

Col. Goldstein was awarded the Legion of Merit after he retired from Army service. He was a life member of the Temple Masonic Lodge and of the Shrine. Besides his sister, he leaves another sister, Martha Finn of Brookline, and many nieces and nephews. A funeral service will be conducted in Levlne Chapel.

470 Harvard Brookline, at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow. Burial will be in Sharon Memorial Park, Sharon. WILLIAM P. COUGHLIN tomer.

I I (Mala MMirdp)yeThi Boston Gto i- Or SUte ZpCode I Sgnitvt I THE BOSTON GLOBE 1 Dr. Harold Elliott, 82 Optometrist more than 50 years 'A" funeral service will be held today at 10. the Stanetsky Memorial Chapel, 1667 Beacon Brookline. for Dr. Harold Elliott.

82, 5f Brookline. an optometrist who practiced in Manchester. N.H., and Watertown for more than 50 years. "-Dr. Elliott died Monday in Brigham and Woinen's Hospital after a long illness.

in Manchester, N.H.. he was a track star at Central High School there. He lived there during the 1930s and then came to Boston. 'He was a graduate of the Massachusetts College. of Optometry in 1923, and was honored in 1980: for his 50 years of membership in the American Optometric Assn.

Elliott was a member of the board of examiners in optometry, a 32d degree Mason and 'jnember of the Washington Lodge of Manchester, jhe Knights of Pyfhias and the Shriners of Bektash Temple of Concord. N.H. He was a life member of the Zionist Organization of America and of the Hebrew Home for thepged in Roslindale. He also was a member of Congregation Kehlllath Israel in Brookline for 45 years. 3d plane crash victim identified as Hub man Medical examiners in Worcester yesterday.

positively identified a Boston man as the third) victim of last month's plane crash in Templeton that killed three passengers and the pilot. i Dr. Paul Hart confirmed the identity of Rob-' erf Brewster. 37. Confirmation of the identity of thepllot of the plane, which apparently crashed' Jan.

28, is pending examination of the victim's medical records. rrEarlier in the week, doctors formally tdentl- fled the other two passengers killed In the acci- deafcas Caroline Porter. 26, of Lee, N.H., and Ar- tfiurJ. Herbert, 29. of Swampscott.

I of the rented plane was found In a wooded swamp outside Templeton almost two weeks after a 100-member search party re-, sponded to reports that the aircraft was miss-: ing. Although the plane, which took off from Mansfield, was believed headed directly for Manchester. N.H., the search encompassed a throe-state area, members of the Civil Air Patrol According to Dennis Jones of the National Safety Board, who Is heading theprobe into the probable crash cause, the dif-. Acuity In finding the plane could be attributed fd the omission of a flight plan. Howeverhe-saidr failure to file a flight plan Is "not particularly unusual on such a short flight" Jones said the on-scene crash investigation his been completed.

He expected a final report to be issued within two to three months. Loren Babe, 56; White Sox scout United Press International CHICAGO Chicago White Sox scout and coach Loren Babe, active in baseball nearly 40 years, died of lung cancer yesterday in Omaha. Neb. He was 56. He was diagnosed as having cancer last April.

A White Sox scout since 1981. Mr. Babe was placed on the coaching staff last May to allow him to get enough time to gain benefits from the Players Assn. plan, according to a club spokesman. Mr.

Babe signed his first pro playing contract in 1945 with the New York Yankees as an inflelder. He appeared briefly in the majors in 1952 and 1953 before being traded to the Philadelphia Athletics system. He played in the minors until 1958. In 1961 he rejoined the Yankees and worked with that club until 1974, spending the 1967 season as a coach. In 1975 he Joined the White Sox.

serving as a triple-A manager In 1975 in Denver where current Chicago manager Tony LaRussa was on the roster. OTHER DEATHS Baxela, Bishop Stefan in Czesto-chowa. Poland. Feb. 13, of cancer, at 68.

Roman Catholic bishop who was highest-ranking diocesan cleric in the shrine city of Czestochowa, site of the Jasna Gora monastery that houses Poland's holiest relfc. the Black Madonna. Barron, Wingate Stuart in Bryan. Texas. Feb.

12. at 95. Former speaker of the Texas House and former state district Judge. Ward, Jimmy in Jackson, Feb. 13.

of cancer, at 65. Former, editor of the Jackson Dally News and one of Mississippi's most widely read columnists. Shntao, Zhou in Tianjin. China, Feb. 14.

at 93. A top official of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a government advisory body. Leigh Montville began training for the Olympics whenhe was four years old. Leigh Montville brings his expert writer's game to Globe readers every morning. It's the kind of interesting, in-depth, insightful writing you'd expect from a prize-wirining Olympic reporter.

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