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Revered OB-GYN Saul Jeck
Dies at 90
JARRAD SAFFREN | STAFF WRITER
D r. Saul Jeck, the Philadelphia
obstetrician/gynecologist who
delivered more than 13,000 babies and
taught countless students to do the
same, died on June 16 at his home in
Elkins Park. He was 90.

Jeck “graduated from South
Philadelphia High School in 1949, the
University of Pennsylvania in 1953 and
the Des Moines College of Osteopathic
Medicine in 1957,” according to a
death notice published in the Jewish
Exponent on June 17. He went on to a
60-year career in his chosen field.

The Jewish OB/GYN, who belonged
to Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel
and Congregation Adath Jeshurun
in Elkins Park, cared for women in
Northeast Philadelphia from 1965-
1990. In 1990, he became chairman
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of the Philadelphia College
of Osteopathic Medicine’s
Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology. He also led
PCOM’s OB/GYN residency
program, which he expanded
from four candidates to
almost 30.

The doctor who was always
on call did not wish to slow
down just because he was
turning 60.

“When you talk to people,
they don’t talk about his skill
as a doctor. They talk about
his demeanor,” said Jeck’s son
Daniel Jeck, a lawyer who lives
in Lafayette Hill. “They’ll tell
you he was a compassionate,
kind, very humorous person
that made people feel good.”
Daniel Jeck, 55, called his father “one
of the hardest-working people I’ve ever
met.” The OB/GYN would work all day,
take a call at night, go deliver two or
three babies in the middle of the night
and then see patients the next morning.

The father and son would be out
together on the weekends, running
errands or eating lunch at Roy Rogers.

Then Jeck would get beeped and
race off.

He told his son they were going to
the hospital. When they got there, Jeck
did what he had to do, and then went
home with his son.

“You knew something pretty import-
ant and cool was happening,” Daniel
Jeck said.

BERGMAN Morris (Maury) Bergman passed away in his
sleep on June 14, 2022. He was born to Jules
and Josephine (nee Mueller) Bergman. Be-
loved husband of the late Hinda May (Hink)
(nee Lashner). Loving father to his daughter
Barbara Jo (Bobbie) and his son, the late Ste-
ven Scott. Loving grandfather to his grand-
daughter, Cindy and his grandson, Jesse
(Brittany). Great-grandfather to Emory Berg-
man. Morris grew up in the Logan section of
Philadelphia. He met his wife when her family
moved to the same block where he lived. He
was the one who coined his wife’s nickname
as he thought “Hinda May” was too long to
say. So he nicknamed her “Hink”. He went
to the Birney Elementary School and it made
such an impression on him that later on in life,
he would remember the school song and sing
On one occasion, when Daniel was
14 or 15, he finally got to see it. At the
hospital, Jeck put his son in a gown and
invited him into the delivery room.

“He was like Superman,” the son
said. Through his intimate role, the OB/
GYN built a deep connection with
patients. Over his years in practice, he
became a sort of local celebrity.

When he was in the mall shopping
with Daniel, his wife Sheila Ann and
their other son Charles, Jeck was often
stopped by two or three people. The
same thing would happen on the beach.

According to Dara Jeck, Daniel Jeck’s
wife of 25 years, the doctor’s PCOM
See Jeck, Page 25
it. He graduated Northeast High School as #1
in his class. He was drafted into the Army for
World War II and was shipped to the Philip-
pines as a medic. After the war he returned
home to attend and graduate from the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Upon graduation from
Penn, he went to work for Rohm and Haas
as a chemical engineer where he worked
for over 40 years. He raised a family in West
Oak Lane, making lifelong friends from Mid-
dleton St where he lived. In 1961, he moved
the family to Elkins Park. Maury was a unique
and special man in that he was born on Leap
Day. He technically was only 24.5 yrs. old
when he died. His interests included bowling,
football, traveling, working with his hands and
cooking and being a part of the B’nai Brith,
William Portner Lodge. He was in the B’nai
Brith bowling league which morphed into the