Mauricio Scokin Obituary (1931

Mauricio Scokin, age 78, passed away on March 12, 2010. Funeral services will be 10:30 am, Sunday, March 14 at the Yukon Chapel in Mount Carmel Cemetery, 5529 Ditzler R., Raytown, Mo. 64133. In lieu of flowers, the family request a donation to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (michaeljfox.org), the National Parkinson Foundation (Parkinson.org), Harvesters Community Food Network, (harvesters.org) He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Manuel and Masha Scokin on May 6, 1931. He was their fourth child. He married Dina Katzenell on December 7, 1951. He immigrated to the United States from Argentina with his young family in 1966, after many years in the family scrap metal business. He settled in Kansas City, later moving to Chicago and then to Dallas, Texas. In the United States he became a traveling salesman, a purveyor of women’s accessories. Always on the cutting edge of fashion, the Women’s Wear Daily was always on his office desk. He knew what would sell in Ada, Oklahoma or in Dallas, Texas. An impeccably dressed gentleman, he was one of the early tenants of The Apparel Mart in Dallas and worked out of his showroom, Sarah Enterprises, until he physically could not. He was a very strong man and that served him well in the last years of his life when he battled the trials and tribulations of Parkinson’s Disease He was preceded in death by his brothers Carlos Scokin and Anatolio Scokin and his sister Luba Scokin Greff. He is survived by the love of his life for 59 years, his wife and caregiver, Dina Katzenell Scokin. He also leaves behind three children that were lucky to call him “viejo” and “papa”: daughter Carlota (Lotti) M. Halpern and husband, Michael D. Halpern, Kansas City, MO; son, Daniel Scokin and wife, Monica Cintado-Scokin, Nashville, TN; and daughter Davina Beth Scokin, DeRidder, LA. He also leaves behind eight grandchildren whom adored their “poppa” and “grandpa”: Adrian J. Halpern and Jacob B. Halpern, Kansas City, MO; David A. Scokin, Sarah M. Scokin, Blythe B. Scokin, Jonathan E. Scokin, Marina Cintado-Scokin, and Lucia Cintado-Scokin, Nashville, TN. He was a recent member of Congregation Beth Shalom since his return to Kansas City to be near family. They wish to thank the staff of Delmar Gardens, Overland Park, Odyssey Health Care, and HCA Overland Park Regional Medical Center for his care.