""My father was a good sailor," his son John said. "Not just on the water, but in life.""
""He did not really stop working," said John Tanenbaum, who had a business meeting planned with him the week after July 4."
Julius Jay Tanenbaum was born January 2, 1926, to Jewish immigrants David and Rose Tanenbaum and grew up in New York City during the Depression. He graduated James Madison High School at 16 and attended the University of Maryland as a varsity football student-athlete intending to study medicine. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy at 17 after Pearl Harbor and served as a Quartermaster Third Class in the Pacific, helping navigate destroyers and transport troops on LST 729 during amphibious assaults. After the war he completed his education, built homes to pay for college, started a residential development business on Long Island, expanded into medical, office, and shopping-center projects across the tristate area, and remained active in evaluating deals into his late 90s. He died July 1, 2025, six months shy of his 100th birthday.
Read at Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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