Morris Boiman

Morris Boiman, Esq. (Moshe Tzvi ben Eliezer), born as a Jewish refugee on December 13, 1947, in a displaced persons camp in Berlin, Germany to Helinka ("Helen") and Eliezer ("Louis") Boiman, passed away peacefully in Montgomery County near Philadelphia on January 27 (10th Shevat), 2026. 

After an initial employment history that includes taxi driving, metalwork assembly line, and running a movie theatre concession stand, Morris graduated Summa cum Laude from Temple University's law school and promptly went on to use his expertise in government service, working for the Pennsylvania Internal Revenue Service where he introduced a computerised records system to his office. When Morris was tapped by a federal agency, he took over a project to establish the Burlington, NJ distribution facility as the central regional hub for logistics for the General Services Administration for the northeast quadrent of the world. His work there spanned several decades, and Morris was promoted many times for his excellence in the main area of his job - saving money and improving efficiency - but the work of which he was most proud had to do with his establishment of and support for internal programs to aid those in need via employment. Morris improved and supported multiple disabled veteran's employment programs at GSA, and made key changes to the GSA's special "back-to-work" program for formerly homeless employees, moving the high dropout rate to nearly zero with his innovative "employee awards" system. 

In his free time, Morris was also an avid volunteer as a lawyer for Meals on Wheels in Northwest Philadephia, where he assisted with their tax preparations and accounting. He was also a great amateur chef, using his talents to delight his large extended family. In addition, whenever anyone needed help and he could provide it, Morris was there. As he put it in his pithy but quotable ethical aphorism: "there are two kinds of people on the bus. The kind that stand up for someone who needs that seat, and the kind that first wait to see if someone else will stand up. We are the first kind." For Morris, other political distinctions of the kind that many care for, were petty and irrelevant.

Morris is survived by his wife, Anna Boiman, his daughter, Louisa Bieler (née Boiman) and son-in-law Dr. Jehoschua Bieler, and his four grandchildren, Raphael Albert, Elisabeth Tova, Kalman Eliezer, Judith Margarete Bieler.  He leaves behind not only his immediate family but also a wealth of extended family and friends whose lives he touched with warmth, kindness, and generosity, spread over more than two continents. He is literally, missed over the whole world. Those who knew him were very lucky.

A graveside service honoring Morris was held on Thursday, January 29, 2026, at Montefiore Cemetery in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, with Rabbi Mordechai Terebelo officiating. The Goldsteins Rosenberg's Funeral Home is honored to assist the family during this poignant time.