The Markow Family Tree

RASKY-LEWY Shaarie Shomayin synagogue was the setting the marriage of Marjorie Lewy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Lewy to Dr. Norman B. Rasky, son of Louis Rasky, Rabbis David Monson, Walter S. Whurzburger officiated. The bride chose a short white knife pleated organza dress with a hand beaded bodice. Her beaded headdress held her tulle veiling and she carried pink and white roses and carnations. Maid of honor, Rochelle Zigelman, wore a pink chiffon dress with a matching hat and the bridesmaid, Trudy Goldman, Philadelphia, wore a blue dress with matching accessories. Both carried blue white roses and carnations. Best man was Sam Ross, New York, brother of the grom and ushers were Lou Lefko, Phil Wener, Harold Grammar, Marr Fox, Ira Glass, Stanley Rosenthal, Harry Rasky, brother of the groom and Gerald Lewy, brother of the bride. The groom was given in marriage by his sister Mrs. Jack Berg. At the reception held at Shaarel Shomayin the bride's mother receiving wearing a beige chiffon taffeta dress with a corsage of roses. The couple will honeymoon in Bermuda.

Beating death ofr retired dentist a mystery to family members By Paul Moloney TORONTO STAR Charismatic, talented and generous to a fault. That's the way filmmaker Harry Rasky remembers his brother Norman, whose bloodcovered body was found at a downtown highrise apartment building late Friday. The retired dentist had been savagely beaten and his body stuffed in a basement locker room at 80 Charles St. E., near Church St. "It's been very tough to deal with," Harry said, noting another brother, veteran journalist Frank, died in February of cancer. Grief-stricken family members are at a loss to understand what happened, he said. "(Norman) was a totally nonviolent man. He would not be capable of being in a fist fight; it was not in his nature. And he was 62." Rasky said police don't suspect robbery but he's not so sure. He said his brother recently came into several hundred dollars, and had no money on him when he was found. "If he got some money, he would offer to buy people drinks. It was just his nature. Somebody may have seen him and thought, 'Here's a good mark.'" Norman Rasky had a healthy income from a dentistry career spanning almost 40 years but he kept little of it, his brother said. "He'd give it away. Norman gave away everything he had to friends, to anybody he felt needed it." He graduated with top marks from the University of Toronto dentistry school and practised for many years above the former Radio City Cinema, on Bathurst St. near St. Clair Ave. "I'm just shattered," said former patient Connie Wood. "He was just the greatest man. It's a terrible ending." Norman Rasky and his former wife have three daughters. He ended his dentistry career a few years ago, closing his office on Wilson Ave. and moving downtown, his brother said. Police say he was well-known in the Church-Wellesley Sts. gay neighborhood, but his brother couldn't confirm that. Rasky's memory of his brother is of an accomplished baritone who at one time sang at services at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. "His great passion was sing ing. That was one of his greatest pleasures. Our father was a cantor so it came naturally to him to want to do that." A funeral service was to be held today at 11 a.m. at Benjamin's Funeral Home on Steeles Ave. W.