- Tributes 2007-03-06
Daniel M. Gentile, 90
CLEVELAND - Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 10, at the First Baptist Church, corner of Fairmount and Eaton, for Daniel M. Gentile, 90.
He was the beloved husband of Marylee (Drollinger) and the late Gretchen A. Gentile (Aiken); the devoted father of Danette Gentile Kauffman and her dear friend Diane Adams of Washington, D.C., and the late Gretchen Gentile Ma (Glenn Yeh-Shiang); grandfather of Kuan Ma (Kathleen), Yung-Yu Ma (Pauline) and Frances Yung-Ho Ma; great-grandfather of Maxine Shinlian Ma and Lydia Esther Ma; and dear uncle of Deanna Gentile, Claire Gentile, Lucy Dupree and the late Gayle Myers (Ken) and Kathy Carlson (Fred). He was also survived by his dearly loved exchange student, Basia Kulawiec.
In lieu of flowers, the family prefers that those who wish may make contributions to the First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Blvd., Shaker Heights, OH 44118; Western Reserve Historical Society -The Crawford Auto Aviation Museum, 10825 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106; Ensemble Theatre at the Cleveland Playhouse, P.O. Box 181309, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118; or to a charity of the donor?s choice.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Brown-Forward Funeral Home, 17022 Chagrin Blvd. in Shaker Heights, with Masonic services at 7:30 p.m.
Daniel M. Gentile
(obit photo included)
Daniel Gentile, steel industry exec oversaw Dead Man's Curve project
Cleveland -- Daniel Gentile, who died March 2, was a retired corporate executive in sales and marketing for International Mill Service, a steel salvage and reclamation business that served 80 steel mills around the world. The 90-year-old resident of Old Brooklyn died at University Hospitals of Cleveland. He joined the Cleveland office of the company, a subsidiary of International Utilities, in the mid-1960s. The company's headquarters were in Philadelphia.
A daughter, Danette Gentile Kauffman of Washington, D.C., said her father's job was to visit steel mill executives around the country, outlining how International Mill could handle their waste and steel reclamation.
"Instead of the waste being dumped into a landfill or piles of slag, International Mill took the waste and metals that could be recycled, melted down the steel and put them back into service," Kauffman said.
Her father retired in the early 1990s.
Before his sales work, Gentile was an excavating and paving construction superintendent for several companies. Some of the projects he supervised were the building of five runway extensions at Cleveland Hopkins Air port in 1939 and sections of Interstate 90, including Dead Man's Curve in Cleveland. Gentile and his company were among those concerned about the design and safety of Dead Man's Curve, Kauffman said.
He also oversaw the excavation, sewers and roads at the NASA Glenn Research Center, then known as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and parking lots at shopping centers -- Eastgate, Westgate, Southgate and Southland.
Gentile was a car collector for more than four decades. His cars included a 1935 Auburn 8-851 Cabriolet, which he had fully restored, and a 1957 Ford Thunderbird. Both are now in the collection of The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum.
His 90th birthday celebration was held at the museum in 2006.
He served as a Navy officer during World War II and trained as a Seabee.
Gentile was born in Cleveland and graduated from East High School. He was a theater arts and education graduate of Western Reserve University, now Case Western Reserve University.
Gentile's first wife, Gretchen, died in 2003. The couple had been married 63 years and lived in Lyndhurst. They were lay leaders to the senior high fellowship at the First Baptist Church in Shaker Heights.
Gentile married the former Marylee Drollinger in 2003.
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Daniel M. Gentile
1916 -2007
Survivors: Wife, Marylee; a daughter, Danette Gentile Kauffman of Washington, D.C.; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren
Services: 11 a.m., Saturday, First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Blvd., Shaker Heights
Contributions: The First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland; Western Reserve Historical Society or the society's Crawford Auto- Aviation Museum, 10825 East Blvd., Cleveland 44106; Ensemble Theater at the Cleveland Play House, P.O. Box 181309, Cleveland Heights 44118; or a charity of choice
Arrangements: Brown-Forward Funeral Home, Shaker Heights.
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Published in The Plain Dealer from March 6 to March 10, 2007
Ohio, Deaths
Name: Daniel M Gentile
Birth Date: 10 Mar 1916
Birth Place: Ohio, United States
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence Place: Ashland, Ohio, United States
Residence Zip Code: 44109-4556
Death Date: 2 Mar 2007
Death Time: 08:10 PM
Death Place: Ohio, USA
Certificate: 021698
Age at Death: 90
Registrar's Certificate Number: 019635
Certifier: Physician
Method of Disposition: Burial
Hospital Status: Inpatient
Father's Surname: Gentile
Marital Status: Married
Education: Bachelor Degree
Industry of Decedent: Steel
Occupation of Decedent: Sales And Marketing
Census Tract: 39035106900
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1916 - 2007 (90 years)
