Deceased June 10, 2023
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IN MEMORY
Charles B. Hochman—B.A. Amherst College 1956, magna, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D. Harvard Law School 1959, honors, Law Review; LLM Stanford Law School 1961, teaching fellow; retired senior partner and head of the tax department at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan—finally closed his eyes on June 10, 2023.
His education was financed by scholarships, fellowships, prizes and hard work. This last included flipping burgers at a Jersey Shore boardwalk stand and working as the only bellhop in a six-story hotel with no elevator. He unloaded beer trucks at the Ballantine brewery in Newark, N.J., where he was a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
His loves were his family, travel, fine restaurants and great theater. After years of suffering and unrewarded loyalty, he sold his season tickets to the Giants and took the family out to dinner. He despised bad grammar, poor proofreading, intellectual laziness and phony tax shelters. He is survived by his wife, Fredrica; his children, Hilary, Thomas (Devon Lockie) and Christopher; and his granddaughters, Ruby and Una. If you would honor his memory, contact someone you haven’t seen or spoken with recently, and say hello.
Fredrica, Hilary, Thomas and Christopher Hochman