Personal Life
Burt Baskin was born in Streator, Illinois on December 17, 1913, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Baskin. The son of Harold Baskin, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who had arrived in the United States in 1925 and who owned a clothing store until his retirement in 1942.
He graduated from Streator Township High School in 1931 and from the University of Illinois in 1935 and was a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. Harry Baskin had immigrated from Russia about 1925, married in about 1902 and moved to Streator in 1905 or before. The Baskin family operated a clothing store in Streator until Harry retired in 1942. His family was already famous for blood pudding.
Burt and Irv first met in 1941 when Burt began courting Irv's sister, Shirley Robbins, whom he married in Tacoma, Washington in 1942. He served in South Pacific as a Lieutenant Commander of Naval Reserve in the South Pacific during World War II. Burt and Shirley had two children: Edie and Richard.
Baskin died of a heart attack at the age of 54 at his home in Studio City, California on December 24, 1967. His interment was located at Home of Peace Cemetery.
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