Obituary: Irving W. Rabb

BOSTON — Services were held here last month for Irving Rabb, former vice chairman of Stop & Shop, who died at age 98 at his home in Cambridge, Mass.

Rabb, whose family founded Stop & Shop, also was named in 1975 as the chairman of the Joint Advisory Board that would lead the merger of the Super Market Institute and the National Association of Food Chains into what is now Food Marketing Institute.

“I missed a meeting, and it was the one in which they decided to merge, and they decided I was the one to do the merger. I learned that you don't miss meetings,” Rabb told SN in 1997.

He was known for his strong mediation skills and his involvement in Boston-area civic activities in the medical and arts communities.