Memorial Service for Harold Lubell
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 6:00pm
Informal memorial service for Harold Lubell in Mackey Hall, starting at 6:00pm.
Harold parted peacefully from this world on Dec. 29, 2015, surrounded by his family. He will be dearly missed.
He was born in Manhattan, N.Y. on March 29, 1925, to Fanny (Bielsky) and Morris Lubell, originally from Novogrodek, Russia. He was preceded in death by his older brother, Paul Lubell; and his wife, Claudie (Marchaut) Lubell of Enghein-les-Bains, France.
Harold attended Bard College in New York on a cello scholarship and Harvard University where he got his Ph.D. in economics. In France he met his wife, Claudie Marchaut, and stepdaughter, Babeth, while working on the U.S. Marshall Plan after the war.
He worked as an economist for various governmental and non-governmental agencies, including the Rand Corporation, Ford Foundation, U.S. Federal Reserve, State Department U.S. Agency for International Development and the International Labor Office. He took his family on his various assignments to Vietnam (where son Martin was born in 1963), Turkey (where daughter Diane was born in 1967), as well as India, Egypt, Senegal, Switzerland, France, and the U.S.
His greatest joy in life, however, was playing the cello in various chamber orchestras and quartets. After having lived the last 25 years in Paris, France, he had recently moved to Wooster to be close to his two grandsons, Julien and Xavier Lubell.
Surviving are a stepdaughter, Babeth Angot; a daughter, Diane Lubell, and a son, Martin Lubell; a daughter-in-law, Beth Muellner; grandsons, Julien and Xavier Lubell; a sister-in-law, Thelma Lubell; and nephews, Mark and David Lubell.
We will be having an informal memorial, led by Andries Coetzee, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 353 E. Pine St., Wooster, on Tuesday, Feb. 9 from 6-7 p.m. McIntire, Bradham & Sleek Funeral Home, 216 E. Larwill St., assisted the family. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.mcintirebradhamsleek.com.
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