BLOOM, Attorney Marvin S. Bloom, of Simsbury, died Sunday, September 11, 2011. Born in Hartford, he was the son of the late Jacob and Lee (Budkofsky) Bloom. He graduated from Weaver High School in Hartford in 1947 and received his academic training and degree at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1954 and was admitted to practice before the Massachusetts and Connecticut Bars in the same year. Marvin served in the Judge Advocate General’s Department of the US Air Force as trial counsel. Following his promotion to First Lieutenant, he was appointed group claims officer for the United States Air Force in New York City. He became associated with Schatz & Schatz upon his release from active duty in 1956. He was a member of the Hartford County Bar Association, the State Bar Association of Connecticut and the American Bar Association; and was admitted to practice before the Federal and State Courts in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He left Schatz & Schatz for private practice in Hartford. Marvin was a member of The Golden Circle, Sigma Alpha Mu at Washington University, a member of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the State of Connecticut Hartford Judicial Branch, and Beth El Temple of West Hartford.
Marvin was the beloved husband of Sandra ‘Sandy’ (Ganezer) Bloom; loving father of Karen Ellen Wyckoff of West Hartford, and Lisa Page Lubka and her husband Mark of Simsbury; cherished grandfather of Colby Sara Wyckoff, Kathryn Amanda Wyckoff, Alexander Max Lubka and Jessie Lee Lubka; and brother of Dr. Craig Yale Bloom of Lafayette, CA.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1:00 PM in the Chapel of the Weinstein Mortuary, 640 Farmington Ave., Hartford with Rabbi James Rosen officiating. Interment will follow in Beth El Temple Cemetery, Avon. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Mandell Jewish Community Center, 335 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford 06117 or to Jewish Family Service, 333 Bloomfield Ave., Suite A, West Hartford 06117. For further information, directions, or to sign the guest book for Marvin, please visit online at www.weinsteinmortuary.com.
