Albert Kutzin
Funeral Service: April 12, 2024 12:00 PM
Funeral Home: Gutterman’s Woodbury Chapel
8000 Jericho Turnpike,
Woodbury, NY 11797
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Albert Kutzin was born in Brooklyn, NY on 9-19-1930 to Claire and Hyman Kutzin. He grew upi n Bensonhurst and graduated from Lafayette High School. He went to City College (NY) and graduated with a degree in Accounting. Drafted into the army in 1951 he served in the Korean War for two years rising to the rank of Sergeant First Class and earning a Bronze Star. He married Sonia Nadel in 1954 (after a 5-year courtship) and became a CPA. Sonny and Bert (Al) had two children (Marc and Joseph) and they moved to Melville on Long Island in 1961. Albert eventually became a partner in an accounting firm bearing his name. Some of his clients became his closest friends.
Albert was known as Al (his family) to some and Bert (his wife’s family) to others. He loved to read and write. He was a columnist for his college newspaper (his column was called “Kold Kutz”) and he became editor of that paper. After college he continued to write, he took a creative writing class and wrote letters to the New York Times that were often printed (the last one in Feb 2023). He was also a voracious reader who subscribed to The New Yorker Magazine for many years. He read books from authors who came from all over the world (Japan, Iceland, etc.). Albert had a wonderful sense of humor and most people who knew him appreciated this as well as his generous and kind nature. He was also a music lover; later in his career he had quite a few clients who were well known in the jazz world. Albert took piano lessons and played regularly and although quite self-deprecating about his abilities, was able to
pound out quite a few recognizable tunes.
Albert is survived by his loving wife of 70 years Sonia (nee: Nadel), his sons Marc (Susan) and Joe (Phoebe), grandchildren Greg, Hannah, Daniel, Damon, and Jason, and pre-deceased by his sister (Maxine). He was loved by all who knew him as a warm, funny, and caring person. In Yiddish they would say he was a gutte neshuma, he had a good soul.
“The Kutzin family asks that in lieu of flowers, gifts of memory of Albert Kutzin can be made to a charity of your choice in his honor.”
Albert’s service is being livestreamed on the funeral home’s website at 12 noon. Kindly acknowledge via text message that you are watching the livestream. Following the chapel service, burial at Mt. Golda Cemetery Huntington Station, New York.