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After the war, she owned and operated Little Folks children's shops in Arlington, and in later years, she and her husband were the proprietors of Sacks Men's Wear stores in Maryland and the District.

In 1980, she received her general equivalency diploma at the same time her daughter received hers and her granddaughter graduated from Bowie High School.

She was a charter member and past president of the Bladensburg Lionettes, a charter member of the Riderwood Over 90 Club and a member of the Riderwood Lions Club and Breast Cancer Survivors. She also was a member of Kneseth Israel in Annapolis and Nevey Shalom in Bowie.

Her first husband, Samuel Mark Sacks, died in 1970; her second husband, Herman Sacks, died in 1979; and her third husband, Morton Merron, died in 1991. A daughter, Bernice Friedman Findley, died in 1984.

Survivors include a son, Allen Joel Sacks of Sarasota, Fla.; five grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

-- Joe Holley


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