Lorain-Cuyahoga County OhArchives Obituaries.....Kessler, Arthur J July 6, 1988
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The Plain Dealer
Friday, July 8, 1988
Arthur J Kessler, loan officer

Arthur J Kessler, whose only formal education after the eighth grade was a
course at Metropolitan Business College, rose to the top of the banking profession.

Mr Kessler, retired senior vice president for Dollar Bank, died Tuesday at
Lakewood Hospital of a bacterial blood infection. He was 85.
He was born at home on Wade Ave in 1902. After the eighth grade, Mr Kessler did
odd jobs. Later after the stint at the business college, he hired on with the
old South Side Builders and Loan Co, at Clark Ave and W 25th St.
His new employers, perhaps considering his 17 years told him he could have a job
there as long as he behaved.
Much later, Mr Kessler liked to point out that he must have behaved because he
stayed with the company for 50 years and three corporate name changes. 
Toward the end of his career it occurred to him he was at least in the running
for having approved the most home loans in the city.
Mr Kessler was an avid Kiwanian and was extremely proud of his 47 years of
perfect attendance at the West Side Cleveland Club. He also was a 32nd Degree
Mason of the Scottish Rite and a member of the Al Koran Shrine, the Lakewood
Shrine Club, the Knights of Pythias and Clark Lodge. He was past president of
the Savings and Loan League and the Cleveland Chapter of the Savings and Loan
Institute.
Mr Kessler was a member of the council of West Side United Church of Christ for
many years before joining the Church of the Redeemer in Westlake.
Mr Kessler's first wife, Elsie, died in 1972.
He is survived by his second wife, Elva of Cleveland; a son Kenneth, of Valley
City; two daughter, Mary Lou Belmont of Vermillion and Verna Field of Toledo;
seven grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.
Services will be 3pm today at Westwood Abby Chapel at Sunset Cemetery, 6265
Columbia Rd.

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