Obituary for Lawrence M. Mintz. The Ithaca Journal, Apr 14 1944, P. 1, with photo
"Death Takes L. M. Mintz, City Judge
City Judge Lawrence M. Mintz died in Memorial Hospital at 10:10 a.m. today, Apr. 14, 1944; victim of an internal disorder that confined him periodically for several months.
Admitted to the hospital Tuesday the 54-year-old jurist was subsequently placed under an oxygen tent in a vain effort to save his life. He presided in City Court Mon-day, returning to duty that day following a heart attack a month ago. Overexertion Monday was blamed for his subsequent collapse.
Mintz was elected to the bench last fall after serving as acting city judge in the mayoral administrations of Joseph B. Myers, Joseph Campbell and Melvin G. Comfort. He was recommended for the position by his predecessor, Harold E. Simpson, who now by a strange quirk of fate,
will succeed him. Simpson accepted appointment as acting city judge when Judge Mintz' illness
postponed assumption of duties Jan. 1.
A native Ithacan and son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ben Mintz, he attended the public schools here and graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1911. He was admitted to the bar the same year and opened a practice in Ithaca. This practice was discontinued in 1917 when he enlisted in the U. S. Army and served overseas as a first lieutenant on the battlefront in France. After the Armistice he went to Germany with the Army of Occupation and remained there for a year.
Mintz, upon his return to the United States, accepted a legal position with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance at Albany. Later he returned to Ithaca and was associated in the clothing business established by his father until he resumed his law practice. In addition to his own law work he served without remuneration as chairman of the Tompkins County Bar Association's Legal Aid for Service Men's Committee and as New York State Veterans Relief Commissioner.
Judge Mintz was a past commander of the New York State American Legion, Sixth District; a past exalted ruler of BPO Elks and a past president of the Bar Association. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars also. A lifelong Republican, he served as a Fourth Ward committeeman and secretary of the County Committee for many years.
Surviving are his widow, Bessie; a son, Lt. Benjamin E. Mintz, now with Army forces in England; a daughter, Miss Eileen Mintz; a brother, Aaron, and a sister, Esther, all of Ithaca."