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Deceased Name: Newton S. Friedman Newton S. Friedman, prominent Duluth attorney and longtime
civil rights activist, died Friday, May 31, 1996, in St. Mary's Medical
Center Hospice, Duluth. He was 84. Mr. Friedman lived on Pitt Street. He was born and grew up in Minneapolis and was in the
first graduating class of Washburn High School, Minneapolis. He was a
graduate of the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and received his law
degree from Columbia Law School. He was an Army veteran of World War II. Following the war
he worked with the Occupational Forces for seven years, re-establishing the
labor movement in Germany in the de-Nazification program. He moved to Duluth
and went into practice with his brother, Martin, retiring in 1991. He was a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association,
Minnesota Supreme Court, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Federal Bar
Association, the American Bar Association, Federal Supreme Court, the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the National Lawyers Guild,
Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association, the Duluth Trial Lawyers Association,
11th District Bar Association, the Workmen's Circle, the American Civil
Liberties Union, Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, a member and counsel for
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the
Eighth District DFL. He practiced in the Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Eighth Circuit, and the Minnesota Supreme Court. His parents were Samuel and Lillian Waxman Friedman. His first wife, Danna Rossyne Michaels Friedman, died July
5, 1979. Survivors include his wife, Frances; two daughters, Karen
Makowski of Duluth, and Joy Friedman of Fridley; a son, Dale (David) Friedman
of Israel; two stepdaughters, Allyn DeVries of Natchez, Miss., and Judy Ewing
of Los Angeles; a stepson, Arthur Baranoff of Indianapolis; and nine
grandchildren. There will be no visitation. Services will be at 9 a.m.
Monday in Johnson Mortuary. Burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday in Adath
Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery, Crystal, Minn. Memorials to St. Mary's Medical
Center Hospice Unit would be appreciated. Duluth News-Tribune (MN) Date: June 1, 1996 |
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