Sid and Sharon Granetz were engaged members of Temple Sholom from its founding until their deaths more than five decades later. They often attended Shabbat, holiday and High Holiday services. They made sure their children attended Hebrew School and celebrated their three bar mitzvahs and one bat mitzvah. The Temple was central to their experience of life-cycle events, both joyous and sorrowful: the naming of some of their grandchildren; Sharon’s becoming a bat mitzvah at age 70; the funerals of, and subsequent yahrzeits in remembrance of, their parents, of Sidney’s brother Lester, and of their daughter, Elyse. 

Sharon was a Temple trustee, a volunteer and supporter of the Hebrew School and a volunteer for chevra kadisha. Sid was the head of the Cemetery Committee for many years. They were generous benefactors over many years, including, with their extended family, the commemoration of the Holy Ark and bimah and, in memory of Elyse, the stained glass windows they commissioned for the Blumberg chapel. 

Sid and Sharon each had only one significant charitable bequest in their wills, and that was to Temple Sholom, which was in many ways so central to their lives. When my wife and I decided to honor them with donations of our own we thought there was no better way than to extend their legacies at Temple Sholom by supporting the development of new areas at the Temple Sholom Cemetery, one for mixed-faith couples and a second to create a more park-like setting.
— Marc Granetz