Edward Rosenthal (1903–1991) was a former vice chairman of Warner Communications and president/owner of the Jewish funeral home chain, Riverside Memorial Chapel.
[1] After school he took over his family's funeral home business founded by his grandfather, Louis Meyers, in 1897.
[3] The company diversified after he brought his son-in-law Steve Ross (who married his daughter Carol in 1953) into the business.
[4][5] They later merged the funeral home and Abbey with a parking lot operator, the Kinney Parking Company,[4] which was then owned by underworld crime figures Manny Kimmel and Abner Zwillman; and added City Service Cleaning Contractors, Inc,, an office cleaning business jointly owned by Rosenthal and a cousin.
[6] The resulting holding company, Kinney Service Corporation, was taken public in 1962 with a market valuation of $12.5 million.