Archie (The Colonel) Louis Sandler

Archie Louis Sandler Archie, Ella, Square, Max 1916 Abe Sandler's Family 1924 Archie Louis Sandler1930 Archie Louis Sandler1938 Archie Louis Sandler Captain Archie Louis Sandler Jonty Abe Sandler's Family 1936

Archie, known as The Colonel, was born on November 11th, 1912 in Benoni.  The Colonel's father was Abe Sandler and his mother was Ella Weinraub.  His paternal grandparents were Aaron Sandler and Sarah. He had two brothers and two sisters, named Max, Norman, Square and Frieda.  He was the oldest of the five children.  He died from a heart attack at the age of 58 on March 28th, 1971 in Johannesburg.  He was buried at the West Park Cemetery.¹ 

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  SUDDEN DEATH OF ARCHIE SANDLER - Jewish Times
  
  The death occurred suddenly on Sunday, 28th March of Mr. Archie Sandier, housemaster of the King David School Hostel and teacher of senior mathematics at the King David High School.  He collapsed while participating in the Big Walk which bad been organised to raise funds for the school.  Mr. Sandler was educated in Vryheid and was a graduate of the Natal University where he narrowly missed a Rhodes Scholarship.  He taught mathematics in Natal but gave up teaching in 1947 to go into business in Kimberley.  During his business -career, however, he never lost touch with education.  He became a member of the Kimberley School Board and
  chairman of the Association of Northern Cape Hostels.  In 1970, he Save up his business to return to his beloved profession of teaching and came to settle in Johannesburg to take up his post with the King David School.
  Mr. Sandler was a man of many parts and was nationally
  known for his prowess in games, teaching and administration.  He was  a tennis blue and half blue at cricket and represented the province at cricket and hockey.  He was captain of his rugby side and became president of the S.A. Men's Hockey
  Association.
  From his earliest youth he an active part in Jewish affairs and while still a young man in Vryheid, already played a major; role in the communal life of the town.
  He was a gabbe of the Kirnberley Shul and chairman of the Chevra Kadisha in Kimberley before he came to Johannesburg,
  Mr. Sandler was fifty eight years old.  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eileen Sandler, his son Jonathan and daughter Ella, by his sisters Sarah and Frieda and by his brother Mr. Norman Sandler, Headmaster of King David High School, Linksfieid.
  The funeral which took place on Monday at West Park Cemetery was attended by a large number of mourners, including leading members of Jewish communal life, the Jewish Board of Education, pupils of the King David Schools and his beloved boys and girls of the King David School hostel, where his loss will be most deeply felt.
  
  HIS END CAME ON CHARITY WALK - Sunday Express
  
  Mr. Archie Sandler, housemaster of King David High School hostel in Linksfield. collapsed and died last Sunday during a I 5-mile "big walk"  to raise funds for the school.  He told people who tried to dissuade him from taking part: "I will never
  die in my bed. I'd rather do so while doing something active"
  This was told to me yesterday by Mr. Norman Sandler, his brother, who is headmaster of the school.
  Mr. Sandler said Archle Sandler, who was 58 had his first coronary attack 20 Years ago and had suffered from angina for several years.
  "I tried ray best to dissuade him from walking, knowing his condition,  but he was adamant"
  "He collapsed. two miles from the finish and died immediately."
  Among the people who tried to talk him out of walking were doctors. They begged him, but he refused pointblank."
  Mr. Sandler was a member of one of South Africa's most distinguished teaching families.  Apart from his brother, Norman brother. Max Sandler, another brother who died seven years ago, was a master at Durban High while two sisters are also in
  the profession. Sarah Is acting Vice-Principal of Addington Junior School, Durban, and Frieda, who teaches commercial subjects at King David.
  Mr. Archie Sandler also had a distinguished sporting record.  At the age of 30 he represented Griqualand West at-cricket, hockey and tennis and captained Griquas at hockey when they were the first province to beat the touring Oxford-Cambridge
  team.
  At the University of Natal, where he gained a B.Sc. degree, he was also a leading sportsman, playing rugby, cricket, tennis and hockey for the university, gaining full colours for tennis and half colours for rugby and cricket,
  He also played first-division cricket, hockey and rugby in Durban for Old Collegians before transferring to Kimberley.
  His late brother, Max, gained his Springbok colours for hockey.
  He was married with two children - a son of 20 and a daughter of 14.
  

Details of The Colonel's family with Eileen Bergman