In Memoriam: Chester Waxman

Chester Waxman, who along with his brother Morris helped manage a successful Canadian scrap company, has died at the age of 82.

In the 1940s, Chester and his brother Morris began working at their father Isaac’s Hamilton, Ontario, scrap business. They joined up with the business, soon named I. Waxman and Sons, at a critical time as the scrap industry boomed in the post-World War II years.

The Waxman family business was eventually divided up among different family members and parts of it were acquired by other companies, including Philip Services Corp. when that company was acquiring properties in the mid and late 1990s.

Throughout his life and especially in his later years, Chester devoted time, energy and money to severable charitable causes, including a hospital and a university in Hamilton.

Chester Waxman is survived by his wife Bailey; sons Warren, Bob and Gary; daughter Brenda; and 15 grandchildren, according to an obituary on the Hamilton Spectator Web site.