March 13 : William Ezra (“Bill”) Shanok, 78 Bill lived every day as a new adventure, and found happiness in life’s simple pleasures: walking his precious collies in Menemsha, brush-cutting on his tractor, and fishing, as long as it was on someone else’s boat! April 2: Corrine Rogers, 66, Oak Bluffs April 3: Howard Scott Steward, […]
The Martha s Vineyard Times
Irene Hallie Mentzel passed away in New York City on June 23, 2021 at age 92.
Hallie was born in 1929 in New York City. She was a second-generation New Yorker, the daughter of Miriam and Dr. Leopold Jaches. Dr. Jaches was a radiologist, and was instrumental in starting the radiology department at Mount Sinai Hospital. Hallie attended the Dalton School
from nursery school through high school. She worked at B. Altman during her high school years.
Hallie attended Barnard College, and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in biology. In 1951, she married Alvin J. Mentzel (Al). Al was a WWII veteran and CPA who worked for Price Waterhouse Coopers. They lived in New York City until 1967, when they moved to Maplewood, N.J. Hallie and Al moved back to New York City in 1980, and subsequently moved to West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard, where they lived until Al died in 2006. Hallie moved back to New York City in 2009. Hallie and Al enjoyed