Morton Ginsberg, Distributorship Founder, Dies



{mosimage}Born July 20, 1919, in Hudson, he was the son of the late Samuel and Mary Ginsberg. He attended Hudson High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before entering the U.S. Army in 1942. He served four years in the Quarter Master Corps receiving an honorable discharge in 1946.

Ginsberg, and his late wife, Ida nee Goodman, founded Ginsberg's Institutional Foods, which has been the largest independent food service distributor in the Hudson Valley and one of the top 50 foodservice distributors in the country. He retired from the presidency of Ginsberg

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