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Shirley Garon

Obituary

GARON, SHIRLEY - 95, of Ogunquit & formally of Portland, in Silver Spring, Md., April 3, 2008. Services, April 7,Levey Chapel, 471 Deering Ave., Portland, 2 p.m. Interment, Mt. Sinai Cemetery. The Jewish Funeral Home, Portland.

Published in Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram on Apr. 6, 2008

Shirley Garon

Obituary

Shirley Garon, 95

OGUNQUIT -- Shirley Garon, 95, of Ogunquit, and formally of Portland, for many years, died in Silver Spring, Md., on April 3, 2008, while staying with her daughter.

Born in Poland, she emigrated to the USA at Ellis Island in 1922, at age 11, with her family. She settled in Brooklyn, where she met and married Harry Garon who passed away two years ago at age 94. She moved to Portland in 1941. She helped her husband in many business ventures while raising three children. She moved to Oqunquit in the late 70s where she spent summers and wintered in Florida. She was the last survivor of all her and her husband's siblings and wives/ husbands.

She is survived by her children, Diana Weiner and her husband Philip of Silver Spring, Md., Meir Garon and wife Nava of Jerusalem, Israel and Gerald Garon and wife Susan, of Canton, Mass.; and she was Nana to 11 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.

She was a member of Temple Beth El where she was active in sisterhood. She was a life member of Hadassah.

Services will be held Monday, April 7, at the Levey Chapel, 471 Deering Ave., Portland at 2 p.m., with interment to follow at Mt. Sinai Cemetery. Arrangements by The Jewish Funeral Home, Portland.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Shirley's memory to a

charity of one's choice.

Published in Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram on Apr. 6, 2008

Shirley Garon

Obituary

GARON, SHIRLEY - of Portland, in Silver Springs, MD, April 3,2008. Services, The Levey Chapel, Monday, 2 p.m. with interment at Mt. Sinai Cemetery.

Published in Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram on Apr. 5, 2008

Harry J. Garon

Harry J. Garon, 94

Prominent real estate

and resort owner

JERUSALEM, Israel - Harry Garon, resident of Ogunquit, passed away in Jerusalem, Israel on April 27, 2006 at the age of 94. Mr. Garon and his wife Shirley were visiting with family in Israel at the time of his death.

He was born in Riga, Latvia on July 6, 1911, one of four children, and he came to Portland in 1924 at the age of 13.

Over the years, Mr. Garon was deeply involved in many business ventures in Maine. Among them were Central Furniture and The Graymore Hotel, to which he brought various night club acts and which served as the central focus of entertainment in Portland and environs for years. He also owned and operated the Majestic Regency Motel in Ogunquit, where he continued to be active up to the time of his death. He claimed to be the oldest active motel owner/manager in the New England region.

Throughout his long career, Mr. Garon owned many residential properties and office buildings in Portland. He had a long and successful career in many other real estate and business ventures as well.

As a young man supporting a growing family of three children during World War II, he worked at the South Portland shipyards on liberty ships.

Mr. Garon was very active in the Jewish community. He was one of the original members and founders of Temple Beth El in Portland. Over the years, he contributed sizeable amounts to Israeli and Jewish charities. He was an active Zionist for many years and was instrumental in the organization and shipment of arms and ammunition to the Hagganah in support of Israel's battle for independence prior to its recognition as a state in 1948.

He believed strongly in maintaining a healthy physique and exercised vigorously for most of his life. In addition to his extraordinary mental prowess, he was proud of his physical abilities and even challenged his children and grandchildren to arm wrestling contests (at age 94) until the time of his death.

He was a deeply dedicated and strongly devoted family man and was an active catalyst in keeping all his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in constant contact with one another.

He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Shirley Frank Garon; and three children, Diana G. Weiner of Silver Spring, Md., Meir Garon of Jerusalem, Israel, and Gerald Garon of Canton, Mass. Mr. Garon also leaves 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Published in Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram on May 8, 2006

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