Fayetteville, North Carolina
Martin William Sternlicht
1931 — 2023
Martin William Sternlicht, Marty to his friends, died peacefully in his sleep on the morning of December 6, 2023, at his home at Carolina Highlands in Fayetteville. Marty Sternlicht was born in the Bronx, New York, on December 14, 1931, to Albert Aaron and Sophia Shapero Sternlicht, joining elder sister Evelyn. The family moved when Marty was six to Laurelton, Queens, and Marty graduated from Far Rockaway High School on nearby Long Island. While a student at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (Class of 1953), he met Gail Siskind from Forest Hills, Queens, then a college student in Manhattan, on a double date (with other people). Marty and Gail became engaged in October 1953 and...