Irvin Winik

Irvin M. Winik "Irv", age 94, widow of Wilma Sayler Winik, died August 21, 2025. Irv was born in Baltimore, MD on September 28, 1930, and was a graduate of Baltimore City College (High School) and the University of Baltimore. He first worked as a mail boy and payroll clerk, and the next 8 years as a parts-chaser at the old Glenn L. Martin aircraft factory while he attended night school to obtain his S.S. in Industrial Management. He then spent the next 32 years at the Social Security Administration National Headquarters in Baltimore, first as a Disability Claims Examiner, then as a Computer Programmer and Systems Analyst. After retirement he and Wilma moved from Columbia, MD to South Carolina in 1994 to the Keowee Key community in Salem, SC, where he enjoyed tennis, racquetball and especially golf, and also musical events at nearby Clemson University. He was a charter member of the Golden Corner Barbershop Chorus, where he also sang bass in the Turn of the Century quartet. The two groups put on shows on various local stages and sang for retirement and nursing homes, etc. In 2013 he and Wilma moved to Wesley Commons retirement community in Greenwood, SC. He joined the in-house chorus there and sang many solos with them and also in piano/vocal concerts. Irv was a 10-gallon blood donor. He served in the peacetime U.S. Air Force. Irv was a first-generation American - his father immigrating from Russia (now Ukraine) and his mother from Lithuania - and he considered himself most fortunate to have been born in such a wonderful country as this. Irv is survived by his sister, Estelle Rabovsky of Miami, several loving nieces and a nephew, and special friends, Pat and Diane Myers. Irv was predeceased by his dear wife, Wilma, of 60 years, his parents, Harry and Anna, Wilma's parents, Ben and Clara Sayler, his sister Mildred Keyser, his brother Melvin, his nephews Carl Rabovsky and Edwar Keyser, his brothers-in-law Irvin Keyser, Jerome Rabovsky and Rev. Harold Stepanek and his sisters-in-law Rev. Alma Stepanek and Edna Winik. Services will be private. In remembrance, Irv asks only that you smile and greet that plain girl or homely boy that you may see and make their day special.

Irvin Winik

September 28, 1930 - August 21, 2025

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