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Mar 10, 2017 · WURTZEL SAMUEL. On March 8, 2017. Sam lived a purposeful and accomplished life right up to the moment he died peacefully in his adopted Kentucky home.
Mar 19, 2020 · SAMUEL WURTZEL Obituary. WURTZELSAMUELOn March 8, 2017. Sam lived a purposeful and accomplished life right up to the moment he died peacefully in his adopted Kentucky home.
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Father and son Samuel S. Wurtzel and Alan L. Wurtzel propelled the Circuit City Stores into a conglomerate specializing in consumer electronics, digital video programming, music software, and automobile sales. Today it is the United States' largest retailer of brand name consumer electronics and appliances. This remarkable growth started from the s...
Samuel S. Wurtzel was born in Sea Bright, New Jersey, March 2, 1907, the son of Jacob and Flora Wurtzel. He was an accounting student at the Pace School, at City College, and New YorkUniversity. He married Ruth Mann in 1932. They had two sons, Alan and David. Samuel Wurtzel died in 1985. Alan L. Wurtzel, the older son, was born in Mount Vernon, New...
Samuel Wurtzel worked for nine years, beginning in 1938, for Packing Products in New York City. In 1949, he was on vacation with his family in Richmond when a local barber informed him that the very first Southern TV station was going to air. Wurtzel began thinking about the possibilities of this fresh market for televisions. Later that year, he mo...
It was during Alan Wurtzel's involvement with Circuit City that he began to realize the problems with the education system in the United States, and especially with the local education system. Wurtzel and his staff were frustrated with trying to hire young people who could "read, write, and interact" on a level that made them capable of working in ...
Contact at: Circuit City Stores Inc. 9950 Mayland Dr. Richmond, VA 23233 Business Phone: (804)527-4000 URL: http://www.circuitcity.com
WURTZEL, SAMUEL, on March 8, 2017. Sam lived a purposeful and accomplished life right up to the moment he died peacefully in his adopted Kentucky home. Sam, as he was known to his family, clients and countless friends from Philadelphia to Madisonville, KY to Captiva, FL was engaging, generous and boundlessly curious....
Dec 7, 1985 · Samuel S. Wurtzel, founder of Circuit City Stores Inc., died Thursday at his home in Mount Kisco, N.Y. He was 78 years old. Mr. Wurtzel was born in Sea Bright, N.J.
Dec 6, 1985 · RICHMOND, Va. -- Samuel Wurtzel, who founded a small television store and turned it into one of the nation's largest electronics retailers, died at his home in Mount Kisco, N.Y. He was 78.
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Feb 6, 2023 · Samuel S. Wurtzel, founder of Circuit City Stores Inc., died Thursday at his home in Mount Kisco, N.Y. He was 78 years old. Mr. Wurtzel was born in Sea Bright, N.J. In 1949 he moved to Richmond and founded the Wards Company.
