f f finde - Pouce while trutten ov Box’ Sad Shi iJon good deat of Dok pnd Prcdercil J. Se With warmest, fond recollections, Ben Sutz sill grabs at life with gusto Saas Eman Sun Citian Profile Portraits Of Our Residents ‘mold tort es Nise uepatin te See epic wo sores ceoreocae, smarter te ‘Sich ana ter aeieetstae sso pare sere ae Sater aR Berio” eatery eae Satori aactaerninc” wwiiCentenarian has cause to celebrate By J.J. McCORMACK Senior staff writer Ben Willlam Sutz has some cel- ebrating to do. The Sun City man turns 100 on Oet. 25. He'll be feted | at parties Oct. 27 at Temple Beth Shalom in Sun City and Oct. 28 in Scottsdale. -| _ Ben was born in_ Bialatstok, Russia, on Oct. 25, 1895. At age 12, 1] he was wounded police during an a demonstration. Fearing he would ‘be kitled during subsequent dem- onstrations, his parents and grandparents sent him tw the United States. He arrirved in Chicago, where he met his wife of 70 years, Bertha, The two were going to night school. Ben got to Know Bertha by claiming she hadn't returned a library book he had lent her. Twenty-five years after leaving, Ben returned to Russia. He later learned that his parents and seven brothers and sisters had perished in Nazi concentration camps dur- ing World War I. Ben managed Atlantic and Pa- DAILY NEWS-SUN OCTOBER 9, 1995 cifle grocery stores in the Chicago area. He has five children, 15 grandchildren and four great~ grandchildren. He credits his long life to his late wife, stopping smoking $0 years ago ond a little luck. “I've never drank. I guess I have good genes and i've had more ‘good luck than bad,” he said. Ben's son Frank of Sun City, said his father is known for his strong, warm handshake. Father and son attend Sabbath services together every Friday night. [get a surge of pride when T see Dad read the prayer book without glasses and. stand erect each time the congregation stands particular prayers," Frank“The Arizona Republie/THE PHOENIX GAZETTE _ Monday, October, 16 —______ Northwest Valley ———___ Peter Scrwepke / Sal photograph 100 and going strong “tam thankful to the powers above that have done so much for me,” Ben ‘Sutz said in an Interview celebrating his 100th birthday. Sutz, born in Russia on Oct. 25, 1695, has seen the birth and death of communism as well as two world wars, the Korean ‘War and the eae