Dolores Passamaneck

Dolores Jaskol was born in 1910 and was the daughter of Samuel and Rose Jaskol. In 1932 she married married Herman Passamaneck. They had one son, Stephen, who was a professor of rabbinics at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Following her death from uterine cancer in 1959, the Passamaneck Award was established in her memory to promote regional young musicians in Western Pennsylvania. The Herman and Dolores Passamaneck Endowment Fund was established in 1984 to assure the continuity of the series. Herman and Dolores Passamaneck had one son, Stephen, who was a professor of rabbinics at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.