In 1956, Leonard “Lenny” Kaden and Sanford “Corky” Kurland opened a restaurant and delicatessen on Cleveland’s east side. And over the next 67 years, Corky & Lenny’s Restaurant & Deli
Beryl Joyce Levine (nee Choslovsky) passed away on June 4, 2022, at her home in San Mateo, California, with her family at her side. Beryl was born on November 9, 1935 in Winnipeg, Canada, the second of four children of Bella and Maurice “Chick” Choslovsky. Beryl, then age 19, met Dr. Leonard Levine, who predeceased her in 2020, at a wedding in 1955. The couple fell in love, Beryl dropped out of college at the University of Manitoba and they married just three months later in Winnipeg on June 7, 1955. Beryl and Leonard then moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and, after a subsequent move for a few years to Grand Forks, North Dakota, and a brief return to Winnipeg for approximately ten months, Beryl and Leonard settled in Fargo, North Dakota in 1964 where they lived for the next 32 years.