Stanley Kahn, former Lawrence mayor

Stanley Kahn, a former mayor of Lawrence village, died in Aptos, Calif., on Sept. 8. He was 82.

Kahn served as mayor from 1981-1988 and is remembered by Jay Gordon, another former Lawrence mayor, as an first-rate village steward and an upstanding person. “Stanley was a really fine gentleman who guided this village with a steady hand,” said Gordon, who served from 1966-’69 and was a fellow member of the Lawrence Golf Club, who socialized with Kahn and took part in charitable endeavors with him and Kahn’s wife. “He was a man of great integrity and I respected him greatly.”

Another member of the golf club, now known as the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club, Judge Donald Buchalter, who serves as the village’s justice, remembers Kahn as a wonderful person who got along well with people. “He ran the village very well and all of the people he worked with in the village no one had a bad word to say about him,” Buchalter said.

Born in Brooklyn on July 31, 1931 to Helen and Louis Kahn, he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate Troy in 1952. A year later Kahn married Marilyn Miller. The couple was together until Marilyn’s death in 1988.

He was active in many professional, community and philanthropic activities and served as president of the New York Electrical Contractors Association from 1977-1979. Kahn continued to be an active member on electrical code committees until his death.

His family wrote that he was a “beloved friend to many, a man of unmatched integrity, an inspiration to all who knew him, always humble and caring, most of all he was our beloved father, grandfather and father-in-law.”

Kahn is survived by Linda Kahn Ganz, Richard Kahn and Thomas Lutazi and Michael Ian Ganz.