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Samuel Rubel Dies At Home In Ridgefield Leader of New York Ice and Fuel Industry Also Brewery Head Ridgefieid, April 29. (AP.)- Samuel Rubel, a leader in the ice and fuel industry in New York City and northern New Jersey, and president of the Ebling Brewery, died at his home, Sunset Hall, here today. Rubel was stricken in New York two days ago and was brought here to recuperate from what members of his household described as a coronary thrombosis. He was a native of Russia who came here in 1921 and for several years was an ice peddler in Brooklyn. With the years he expanded his holdings to become head of the Mountain Ice and Fuel Corporation, in New Jersey, the Rubel Corporation, New York City, and other businesses. Rubel bought Sunset Hall with its 44-room house and 110 acres of grounds two years ago from Mrs. Ruth Cuten who had offered it as a sight for United Nations headquarters. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Dora Naehmovitz Rubel, of this town, and two daughters, Mrs. Bernice Ross and Mrs. Honora Shapiro, both of Roslyn, L. I. Funeral services will be held in New York Sunday.

Albert Shapiro, 72, Sands Point Executive, Rotarian Albert Shapiro, president of Commander Oil Corp. in Oyster Bay, died last Monday in his sleep at his home in Sands Point. He was 72. “I’ll miss his laughter, his generosity, his kindness and his goodness to everyone,” said Honora Shapiro, 70, his wife of 55 years. “We were childhood sweethearts. We met when his mother and my mother took us to the circus. I was 7, he was 10.” The two were wed two weeks after Honora graduated from Friends Acade my in Locust Valley. Mr. Shapiro was in the Coast Guard Academy, and before he could graduate, he was shipped out during World War II to serve in the Pacific Theater. After the war, Mr. Shapiro rose through the ranks at Rubel Corp, a wholesale distributor of ice, coal, and fuel oil in the Tristate area. Mr. Shapiro joined his family business in 1956. He was elected president of Commander Oil in 1979. He also served as chairman of the board, president, and chief executive of Shorewood Financial Inc. in Lake Worth, Fla., a mortgage banking firm. Born in Glen Cove, Mr. Shapiro also was a civic activist. In 1962, he was president of the Oyster Bay Chamber of Commerce and president of the Oyster Bay Rotary Club. In 1971, he was elected chairman of the Rotary International Youth Exchange Program for District 7250, a position he held for 25 years. In 1975 and 1976, he served as district governor of Rotary International for Kings, Queens, and Nassau Counties. In 1986, he held the office of Rotary International’s Youth Exchange Contact for South Africa. Mr Shapiro also was a Mason and a Shriner. From 1983 to 1992, he served as a director of the New York State American Lung Association. Since 1987, he was an active member of the Sands Point zoning appeals board. Mr. Shapiro was a trustee of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He also is survived by two daughters, Barbara, of Sands Point, and Kelly and her husband, Louis Gonda, of Beverly Hills; son Stephen, of Florida,; a brother, Harold, of Roslyn; and five grandchildren, Eli, Eva, Nicolas, Jonathan, and Michael Gonda, all of Beverly Hills A private funeral was held and attended by the family.

SHAPIRO--Honora (Honey) (nee Rubel), pka Honey Sanders, of Los Angeles and New York, died suddenly on October 31st at 75 years of age. Beloved wife of the late Albert Shapiro, loving mother of Barbara, Stephen, Kelly, dear friend to her son-in-law Lou, adoring grandmother of Eli, Eva, Nicolas, Jonathan and Michael, cherished sisterin-law of Harold and Barbara, devoted aunt to Susan, Tony, Patti, Buddy, Karen and Mark. She was the essence of life and happiness, and was adored and loved by everyone who knew her. He wide circle of family and friends are grieving deeply with our loss. Services will be held on Monday, November 3rd, at 12 noon, at Gutterman's, 8000 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury, Long island.

Thesp-turned-talent agent Honora (Honey) Sanders died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles Oct. 31. She was 76. Sanders began her career as a child singer and appeared on Horace Heidt’s TV talent show. She attended Hofstra U. and made her Broadway debut in “13 Daughters” with Don Ameche, followed by playing Bloody Mary in “South Pacific,” which she repeated in tours across the country. Later, she starred on Broadway in “The Rose Tattoo,” “Mame” and “The Education of Hyman Kaplan.” On television, she appeared in “The Edge of Night” and in the forthcoming Showtime movie “A Time for Dancing.” She opened the Sanders Agency in Los Angeles and New York, where for 25 years she represented artists including Vince Vaughan, Jodi Benson and Philip Leeds. She moved into theatrical production in 1997 with Tennessee Williams’ “Not About Nightingales”; “The Sweet Smell of Success,” which won a Tony for John Lithgow; London’s West End production of “The Full Monty”; “Cressida and Napoleon”; and the Los Angeles revival of “Flower Drum Song.” Her last appearance as a musical performer was in the Actors Fund Tribute to Jerry Herman, and she was scheduled to perform in the Fund’s Oct. 25 tribute to Kander and Ebb when was hospitalized. She is survived by daughter Kelly Gonda, a producer; another daughter and a son; and five grandchildren. Donations my be made to the Honey Sanders Memorial Fund at the Actors Fund of America, 5757 Wilshire Blvd #400, Los Angeles, CA 90036.