Dr. Stanley Donald Rosenthal's Obituary
ROSENTHAL, DR. STANLEY DONALD, died August 17, 2015. He was 87 years old. Dr. Rosenthal, the son of Alan and Pearl Rosenthal, was born and raised in Culpepper, Virginia. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from University of Virginia. After medical school, he moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he met the love of his life, Zelda, who he married on March 13, 1954. Dr. Rosenthal briefly served in the United States Army as a physician at Ft. Dix, New Jersey and then in 1959 moved his family to South Florida to open a pediatric practice. Dr. Rosenthal treated tens of thousands of patients in Opa Locka, Hialeah, Miami Lakes and North Miami Beach, Florida during his 50 plus years of practice in South Florida. He was universally beloved by his patients who returned to him with their children and their children's children until he finally retired from the practice of medicine. Dr. Rosenthal was a founding member of the Michael Ann Russell Jewish Community Center in North Miami Beach, Florida, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Miami School of Medicine and Former President of the Dade County Pediatrics Association. He was always ahead of his time with technology being one of the very first individuals to own a digital watch, portable calculator, and even built his own home computer before purchasing a Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1977. The only thing he enjoyed more than his golf games with his buddies and a good cigar was his family whom he adored more than anything else. His wife, Zelda, his children, Marsha (Ira) Sussman, Lynn (Mitch) Feig, and Alex (Kim) Rosenthal, and ten grand-children, Melissa, Mollie, Paige, Meredith, Max, Rachel, Gilbert, Miriam, Annie, and Franki, survive him. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in memory of Dr. Rosenthal to NTM INFO and Research 1550 Madruga Ave., Suite 230, Coral Gables 33146.
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