Screenshot from Twitter. Three more victims of the Pittsburgh shooting are being laid to rest on Wednesday: Irving Younger, 69; Joyce Fienberg, 75; and Melvin Wax, 87.
Younger was a regular attendee and volunteer at Tree of Life synagogue, going out of his way to greet people at the synagogue, giving them a book and guiding them to their seat.
Outside of the synagogue, he liked to talk to various people as he took a walk down his street and was very friendly to his neighbors.
“He loved going there [Tree of Life] and just loved life, he was loving life,” Val Schroeder, one of Younger’s neighbors, told CBS Pittsburgh. “He would go to the Pirate games, and he was just trying to live his life and loved life, and this is what happens.”
Younger leaves behind his daughter, Jordana, and grandson.
Fienberg was a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh until she retired in 2008, where she was known by her students for her warmth as a mother-like figure.
“She would go out of her way to remark to people when they did something well, and she’d reach out to people when they were having trouble,” Christopher Genovese, who heads the statistics and data science department at Carnegie Mellon, told the Post-Gazette. “And she was a wonderful person.”
Fienberg leaves behind her two sons, Anthony and Howard, and grandchildren.
Wax was a retired accountant, father and grandfather, described as someone who was introverted but gentle, a lover of humor and joke-telling.
“He used to tell me every day a joke,” Robert Hough, a neighbor of Wax, told CBS Pittsburgh. “Every day was a joke. Real nice guy.”
Wax was also leading the services on the morning of Oct. 27 when the shooting occurred.
On Tuesday, shooting victims Cecil and David Rosenthal, Daniel Stein and Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz were laid to rest. On Thursday, Bernice and Sylvan Simon and Dr. Richard Gottfried will be laid to rest and on Friday, Rose Mallinger will be laid to rest.
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