Visitation: No prior visitation.
Service: THURSDAY: A Memorial
Service will be held at the Chapel of the Elms, Elmlawn Cemetery at 11 am. KLAYMAN – Morton S.
August 17, 2014. Beloved husband of
the late Norma (Enea) Klayman; brother
of the late Alfred Klayman and the late
Leah Cohen, Sadye Klayman and Rose
Sward; survived by several nieces and
nephews and longtime friend David
Brooks. A Memorial
Service will be held
on Thursday at 11 AM at the Chapel of
the Elms, Elmlawn Cemetery, 3939 Delaware
Ave., Tonawanda. Flowers gratefully
declined. Memorials may be made
to Roswell Park Cancer Institute, 665
Elm St., Buffalo, NY 14203. Arrangements
by the DIETRICH FUNERAL
HOME, INC. Online condolences shared
at www.TheDietrichFuneralHome.com May 11, 1921 – Aug. 17, 2014 Morton S. Klayman, a speech and drama teacher at Amherst Central High School for more than 30 years and founder of the Amherst Players theater group, died Aug. 17 in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he had lived since 2012. He was 93. Mr. Klayman served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II, achieving the rank of first lieutenant and flying more than 50 missions as navigator aboard B-24 bombers with the 15th Air Force. After leaving the military, Mr. Klayman graduated cum laude from Ithaca College and earned a master’s degree in speech and drama from Columbia University. He started his teaching career at Tupper Lake Central School and Lockport Senior High School before taking his position at Amherst Central Senior High, where he later became chairman of the English department. Along with his teaching duties at Amherst High, Mr. Klayman directed innumerable school plays and 39 musicals. He loved every aspect of theater, and in 1948 he founded the Amherst Players, acting, directing and serving as the community theater group’s president for several years. He also performed in summer stock in Cedarhurst, Long Island. Mr. Klayman served as a teaching fellow at the University of Michigan, where he also did extensive graduate work, and was an associate in speech education in the English Bureau of the state Department of Education. He was active in the New York State Speech Association, holding several offices, including president, and was a member of the Western New York Rose Society, the New York State Teachers’ Association, Amherst Education Association, New York State Retired Teachers’ Association and American Federation of Teachers. Mr. Klayman was a member of George F. Lamm Post No. 622, American Legion. His wife of 41 years, Norma Enea Klayman, died in 2010. Mr. Klayman is survived by longtime friend David Brooks. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Chapel of the Elms, Elmlawn Cemetery, 3939 Delaware Ave., Town of Tonawanda.