Individual Details
Stanley Howard Turkel
(2 Sep 1925 - 3 Sep 2022)
specializing in litigation support services, asset management and operational audits.
He can be reached at stanturkel@aol.com or 212-838-5467 or 917-628-8549
147-03 Jewel Avenue, Kew Gardens Hills, NY 11367
his website: http://stanleyturkel.com/
The hotel consultant and historian Stanley Turkel, 90, lives in a single-family home in Flushing, Queens, with walls that are covered with photos of his family, including his wife, Rima Sokoloff, a modern dancer and professor who died in 2014, his four children and his five grandchildren. Mr. Turkel, who grew up in the Bronx and graduated from New York University, served in the Army Air Force during World War II before becoming the general manager of the Drake Hotel, now demolished, on Park Avenue. He then traveled the world for the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, overseeing development and operations on behalf of the Sheraton Corporation during its global expansion. An avid collector and writer, Mr. Turkel recently donated 670 items to the Smithsonian?'s new National Museum of African-American History and Culture, and has published five books on the hotel industry.
Events
| Birth | 2 Sep 1925 | Bronx, New York, New York, United States |  | ||
| Residence | 1930 | Bronx, New York, New York, United States | |  | |
| Graduation | 1930 | DeWitt Clinton High School, Bronx, New York, New York, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1935 | Bronx, New York, New York, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1940 | 1940 Census - 1477 1/2 Teller Avenue, Bronx, New York, New York, United States | | ||
| Military | 24 Mar 1944 | Enlistment - Fort Dix, New Jersey, United States | | | |
| Alt name | 1945 | Stanley H Turkel | | ||
| Military | 4 Nov 1945 | WWII Draft - Bronx, New York, New York, United States | | | |
| Residence | 1950 | 53 Brirwood Crossing, Apt 170, Lawrence, Nassau, New York, United States | | | |
| Occupation | 1955 - 1962 | Laundry Consultant - Victor Kramer Company - Commercial Laundry Consulting Company, Rutherford, New Jersey, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 1955 - 1973 | 1st Marriage of Stanley; Estimate years of Marriage until Divorce - Barbara E Bell | |||
| Marriage License | 1955 | 1st Marriage of Stanley - Manhattan, New York, New York, United States - Barbara E Bell | | ||
| Occupation | 1968 - 1975 | Manageer of the Sheraton hotel | |||
| Marriage | 1973 - 2014 | 2nd Marriage for Stanley abd Rima; Estimate years until she died - Rima Sokolof Forrest | |||
| Residence | 1976 | 7777 Jewel Avenue, Zip 11367-1712, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States | | | |
| Residence | Bef 1993 | 122 E 42nd St, Zip 10168-0002, New York, New York, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1995 - 2002 | 14703 Jewel Avenue, Zip 11367, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States | | | |
| Residence | 2016 | Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, United States | |||
| 2020 | stanturkel@aol.com, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States | ||||
| Website | 2020 | facebook private timeline | |||
| Death | 3 Sep 2022 | Alexandria, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Occupation | President, Hotel Consultant | | |||
| Occupation | Teacher at Queens College, The City University of New York |
Families
| Spouse | Rima Sokolof Forrest (1930 - 2014) |
| Spouse | Barbara E Bell (1927 - 2014) |
| Child | Marc Alexander Turkel |
| Child | Allison Lee Turkel |
| Father | Nathan Turkel (1891 - 1966) |
| Mother | Molly Kurtzman (1896 - 1970) |
| Sibling | Sylvia Turkel (1923 - 1975) |
| Sibling | Leonard Henry Turkel (1930 - 2011) |
Notes
Birth
His father, Nathan, an immigrant from Poland, owned New York Wet Wash Laundry, which catered to hotels and other commercial customers. His mother, Molly (Kurtzman) Turkel, was a homemaker.Residence
Age: 4; Age: 4 6/12; Attended School: No; Enumeration District: 0104; Registration District: 104; Marital Status: Single; Relation To Head: SonGraduation
Obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/nyregion/stanley-turkel-dead.htmlMilitary
Information: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law; Military Service Branch: Air Corps; Rank: Private; Height: 00; Military Division: Reserves - exclusive of Regular Army Reserve and Officers of the Officers Reserve Corps on active duty under the Thomason Act (Officers and Enlisted Men -- O.R.C. and E.R.C., and Nurses-Reserve Status); Service Number: 12220624; Weight: 000Military
Occupation: Disch Soldice; Complexion: Ruddy; EyeColor: Brown; HairColor: Black; Height: 5 10; Weight: 165Residence
Street Address: Brirwood Crossing; Age: 26; Occupation: Salesman; ClassofWorker: Private; EnumerationDistrict: 30-170; HoursWorked: 50; Industry: Laundry & Cleaning Business; LiveOnFarm: No; OccupationCategory: Working; ThreeOrMoreAcres: No; RelationToHead: Son; MaritalStatus: SingleOccupation
Stanley worked for his father's laundry company, enrolled in a one-year program at the School of Laundry Management at the American Institute of Laundering in Joliet, Ill., and served as a laundry consultant with the Victor Kramer Company: https://victorkramer.com/ for seven years before joining Loews in 1962.Residence
Street Address: 47777 Jewel Av; Age: 51; Street Address: 14703 Jewel Ave; Phone Number: 544-5226; Phone Number: 544-5226Residence
Lived with his wife Rima (Sokolof); Street Address: 14703 Jewel Ave; Phone Number: 718-544-5226Death
Obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/nyregion/stanley-turkel-dead.htmlOccupation
Publications: Stanley Turkel is one of the most widely-published authors in the hospitality field with more than 275 articles and 7 books on various fascinating hotel subjects; Litigation Support Services: Since 1992, Turkel has provided expert witness services to attorneys specializing in hotel-related litigation. He has served as an expert consultant and/or witness in more than 40 cases; Consulting: Stanley Turkel is a recognized authority and consultant in the hotel industry. He specializes in asset management, hotel franchising and litigation support services; Books that he wrote: https://stanleyturkel.com/wp/Endnotes
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7. Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022), United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Lawrence, Nassau, New York; Roll: 2098; Sheet Number: 73; Enumeration District: 30-170.
8. Ancestry.com, New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017), New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Manhattan.
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11. Ancestry.com, U.S., Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005), City: Flushing; State: New York; Year(s): 1995-2002.