Miles B Suchin

Miles B. Suchin passed away Tuesday, September 24, 2013 in White Plains NY. He was born on December 28, 1922 to Harry Z. and Evelyn Roth Suchin in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. He and his family moved in 1924 to Dobbs Ferry, where he resided until moving to White Plains in 1978. He married Mildred Randolph on November 4, 1978 in Freeport, NY. She died on February 1, 1996. He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT in 1941. He then entered Yale University in 1941, left for service in the U.S. Army in 1943, returned to Yale in 1946 and graduated from Yale in 1947. Mr. Suchin graduated from New York Law School in 1950, and was admitted to practice law in all the courts of New York State and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He was a Legislative Assistant to the late Assemblyman, Edward H. Innet during the 1951 and 1952 sessions of the New York State Legislature. He was briefly employed in the legal department of C.I.T. Corporation in New York City before becoming an associate in the White Plains Law Firm of Schrecke and Innet. Thereafter, Mr. Suchin served as a Prosecutor in the Westchester County District Attorney's Office for 24 years from 1954 to 1978, for the last 16 years as an Executive Assistant District Attorney. He retired in 1978. His service in the U.S. Army during World War II was with an Anti-Aircraft Battalion and was for a period of 33 months, 15 months of which were spent in New Guinea and the Philippine Islands. He attained the rank of Sergeant. As a young man he was well known as a high ranking junior tennis player in the east, having won numerous Eastern Junior Tennis Tournaments, he was Captain of the undefeated Hotchkiss School Tennis Team during his senior year, and was a member of the undefeated Yale University Tennis team in 1946 and 1947. He was a member of the Westchester Country Bar Association and the American Legion Post Number 135 in White Plains. He is survived by his sister, Rosalind Kassan, of Pompano Beach, Florida, and by nieces and nephews. His Brother, formed Assemblyman Alvin M. Suchin, died in November, 1991 and another brother, Jerome L. Suchin, died in December, 1986.