Herman Cohen

Mr. Cohen died Wednesday, March 27, 2002, in Hadera, Israel.

He was born in 1913 in New York City, the son of Jake and Anna Cohen. He moved to Lawrence, Kan., with his parents in 1925.

Mr. Cohen attended Lawrence Junior High, Liberty Memorial High School and Kansas University. He played football at KU. He graduated from KU in 1936 with a degree in metallurgical engineering.

After his graduation, he went to work full-time for his father and his uncle, Morris “Shorty” Cohen, who owned the Auto Wrecking and Junk Company, Lawrence. Herman Cohen eventually assumed ownership of the business and retired in 1977 after working there 50 years. He moved with his wife to Hadera from Lawrence in 1996.

He was a past president of B’nai Brith, a Masonic and Eastern Star officer, and a member and supervisor of the KU chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.

He also founded the Lawrence Jewish Community Center.

He married Selma Kamen Cohen on June 16, 1935. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include a daughter, Barbara Oxman, Bethesda, Md.; two sons, Bill, Hadera, Israel, and Robert, Paris; a brother, David Kagon, Los Angeles; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

A grandson died earlier.

The family suggests memorials to the Lawrence Jewish Community Center or to Haamuta Lehanzacha Hallalei Ason Hamsokim, sent to Sha’ar Yishuv in care of Bill Cohen, 3 Maharal St., Hadera, Israel. Haamuta Lehanzacha Hallalei Ason Hamsokim is a nonprofit memorial organization for the Fallen of the Helicopter Disaster that killed Mr. Cohen’s grandson.