(Jewish Group) Violet Spevack, weekly chronicler of Cleveland Jewry for 50 years, dies at 107

Violet Spevack, whose popular society column ran in the pages of the Cleveland Jewish News for nearly 50 years, died Sept. 7. She was 107.

Spevack, who started writing “Cavalcade” on March 5, 1965 — six months after the creation of the weekly Cleveland newspaper — wrote more than 2,500 columns and hundreds more feature stories on her manual typewriter until her retirement in January 2015. She was one of the longest continuously published columnists in the country.

Spevack’s weekly descriptions of events in Greater Cleveland brought her fame and recognition in her own right. Among the celebrities included in her column over the years were Don Rickles, George Burns, Milton Berle, Monty Hall, Buddy Hackett, Joan Rivers and Henny Youngman.

Spevack was inducted into the Cleveland Press Club Journalism Hall of Fame in November 2014.

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