2007
Stanley Freedman, 88, a native Washingtonian who co-owned Diplomat Liquors at 17th and Q streets NW for 13 years until his
retirement in 1970, died Feb. 9 at Montgomery General Hospital of complications from a heart attack and pneumonia.
He had lived in Silver Spring since 1989 and before that in Chevy Chase and Coconut Creek, Fla.
Mr. Freedman was a 1937 graduate of McKinley Technical High School, where he played baseball and basketball. That same
year, he joined his father's grocery store business. The two men owned several stores before becoming the proprietors of
Diplomat Liquors in 1957.
A longtime Mason, Mr. Freeman was a member of Samuel Gompers/Benjamin Franklin Masonic Lodge No. 45 and its
Fellowcraft Club. He also was a 32nd-degree Scottish Rite Mason and a past monarch of Fudda Nabi Grotto, another Masonic
organization.
He belonged to Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, Indian Springs Country Club in Silver Spring and Ohev
Shalom Talmud Torah Congregation in Washington.
In his youth, he worked as the chief press box attendant for the Washington Senators.
A daughter, Francine Freedman, died in 1984.
Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Bella Freedman of Silver Spring, and a son, Steven Freedman of Gaithersburg.