Obituary
Irv Mindel has died after a long illness. He was 86. Mindel was president of A Mindel & Sons, USA, the firm founded by his father in 1913. He sold A Mindel to Seton Co in 1982, where he remained president until 1987 when he became a consultant for the company. He fully retired in 1997.
Mindel was one of the leaders in fleshing in the days when it was an industry phenomenon. He was an industry leader and innovator and greatly admired and respected by his piers. He was the first president of the United States Hide Skin & Leather Association and one of its founding members who brought the Association into modern times. He was a recipient of the industry's cherished Ed Whitney Hall of Fame award in 1999.
To typify the character of Irv Mindel, even though he had been diagnosed with lung cancer late last summer, he attended the USHSLA annual meeting in Chicago this past fall to see his many friends and former associates. He sat in on all of the meetings in rapt attention as industry speakers discussed topics covering the current state of the industry.
He was a former president of the Rotary Club of Toledo and was on the boards of the Toledo Area Chamber of Commerce, the Jewish Welfare Federation of Greater Toledo, Toledo Hospital, and the Ability Center of Greater Toledo.
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