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- Glencoe News (IL)
February 14, 2002
Muriel Fink Haskell, 84, died Feb. 11 in Naples, Fla. where she has been residing since June.
Mrs. Haskell resided in Brooklyn while her husband, Daniel fought in the South Pacific. When he returned they moved to Chicago and later Glencoe where they raised their three sons. In 1980, they retired to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Mrs. Haskell was president of the National Council of Jewish Women in Glencoe in the 1960s where she also entertained senior citizens and handicapped children with shows she wrote and produced. She also managed the in-house public relations for the Sisterhood of North Shore Congregation Israel. As a professional publicist for That Steak Joynt in Chicago, Mrs. Haskell won the national award for best in-house publication from the National Restaurant Association. When she moved to Broward County in 1980, she volunteered to organize a concert for the Soref Jewish Community Center in Plantation and later became the center's media director for 10 years. Later she became the publicist for the Daniel D. Cantor Senior Center in Sunrise.
Mrs. Haskell was preceded in death by her husband, Daniel Haskell, and a granddaughter, Leonore.
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The Miami Herald (FL)
February 13, 2002
Muriel Haskell, a local publicist and media director who had a passion for creative writing, died Monday in Naples, Fla. She was 84.
''She was effervescent and naturally creative,'' said son Harry, who lives in Santa Monica, Calif. ''She wrote so effortlessly.''
Haskell wrote plays and musicals throughout her life. At the age of 80, she learned to use a computer so she could write a book of childhood memoirs that she hoped to publish one day.
After moving to Fort Lauderdale with her husband, Daniel, in the 1980s, Haskell worked at the Soref Jewish Community Center in Plantation for 10 years as a media director. She later became the publicist for the Daniel D. Cantor Senior Center in Sunrise. In addition to her work, she actively volunteered at both places.
''She was a talented and lovely lady. She served us well,'' said Sandy Blech, executive director of the Cantor center, where Haskell wrote public relations pieces. ''She would go around and talk to elderly participants and eke out stories from them about their past or spouses.''
She was born Muriel Fink on Aug. 3, 1917, in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she attended high school. She later graduated from Hunter College in New York City with a degree in art. She married Daniel Haskell in 1940, and the couple later moved to Illinois. Haskell raised their three children and then pursued writing.
In the 1960s, she wrote and produced shows for senior citizens and handicapped children at the National Council of Jewish Women in Glencoe, Ill., where she was a past president. She also managed in-house public relations for the Sisterhood of North Shore Congregation Israel in Chicago and won a national award for best in-house publication from the National Restaurant Association for her work at That Steak Joynt in Chicago.
Haskell's husband died last year. Besides her son, Harry, she is survived by sons Charles Haskell of Chicago and Jonathan Haskell of Annemasse, France, and four grandchildren.
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