Joe Doctorman, 93, former president of Joe Doctorman & Son Meat Packing, died Tuesday at his home.
Doctorman was well-known in the Intermountain area cattle industry. He started as a cattle buyer with his father in 1913, and formed his own meat packing company in 1931. He expanded the business in 1947 with the purchase of Jensen Brothers Meat Packing. The company was formally dissolved in 1981.Doctorman was born Oct. 18, 1896, in Poland, the son of Benjamin and Molly Nathan Doctorman. He married Yetta Chait in Poland in 1918. She died in 1930. He married Celia Chait in 1932, also in Poland. She died in 1972.
He was a member of Congregation Kol Ami and B'nai B'rith.
Doctorman is survived by a son and two daughters, Harry J. Doctorman and Mrs Nathan (Irene) Levine, both of Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Harold (Marjorie) Rosen, Englewood, Colo., seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Henry (Helen) Pullman, Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Isidore Weber, Denver. He was preceded in death by three sisters.