Milton Weinstein

Milt was a kind, jovial and generous man. Milt was a successful self-made business man who overcame a myriad of challenges early in his life.

Milt’s dad passed away when he was 12 years old, requiring him to drop out of school to help his mom run the family business, The Ritz Theater.

Later, Milt worked his way through night school, taking nine years to get his undergraduate accounting degree. Following graduation, Milt successfully passed the CPA exam on his first attempt.

While working for the IRS, Milt joined his co-workers and attended night school at the Cleveland-Marshal School of Law, where he successfully passed the bar exam upon graduation.

Milt then went on to successfully run, with his long time partner Gary Ferber, the accounting firm of Ferber and Weinstein. Later, upon the passing of Gary, joined the firm of Friedman and Leavitt.

Milt’s greatest joy was spending time with his family, never missing any of his grandkids’ many sporting events. He was an avid Cleveland sports fan and past treasurer of the Cleveland Kidney Foundation. His greatest passion was traveling the world and he loved planning family trips and outings.

Milton journey with kidney cancer began one afternoon while he was at the theatre. He found blood in his urine when he went to the bathroom. He quickly saw a urologist at UH hospital before leaving for a his dream river cruise with his wife, Elaine. The doctor suggested he enjoy his planned trip and once he returned they would get together and figure out what was going on. Upon returning back, he ran a battery of tests and determined he had kidney cancer. They decided to remove one of his kidneys. The surgery went well and we were optimistic that this dark chapter in his life was now behind him. Unfortunately during one of his followups when asked how he was feeling he mentioned he had some pain in his hip, which ultimately lead to him being diagnosed with metastatic kidney cancer. At that point, he was given systemic therapy and at some point thereafter he was placed on immunotherapy. Although many people benefit from these agents, Milton had a horrible reaction to them and he quickly passed away Sept 21, 2018.

He will be remembered as you can see in this picture, happy and smiling.