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Gerald Millman

Former Used-car Dealer Founded Captain Jerry's Custom T-shirts Specializing In Silk-screen Designs

June 27, 2009|By Frederick N. Rasmussen , fred.rasmussen@baltsun.com

"They were funny, had great graphics, colorful, and were high-quality," Mr. Luskin recalled. "He really did a spectacular business."

After retiring in 1998, Mr. Millman turned over operation of the business, which is on Primrose Avenue in Northwest Baltimore, to his youngest son, Dean L. Millman of Owings Mills.

In his retirement, he enjoyed his many hobbies, which included photography and magic.

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He became interested in magic in 1960 and became a proficient magician, who performed as "Millman the Magician."

Mr. Millman, who was a member and former officer of the Yogi Magic Club, entertained patients in hospitals and area schoolchildren.

To overcome his lifelong fear of flying, when he turned 50, Mr. Millman earned his pilot's license and bought an airplane.

"His plane was a Cessna four-seater, which he kept at Martin State Airport, and his wife was his co-pilot," said Mark Millman. "He'd fly all over the Mid-Atlantic region, to his condo in Ocean City or just fly friends somewhere to have lunch."

When he stopped flying at 75, he turned to boating and purchased boats that he kept moored at the Inner Harbor East Marina.

Four years later, he bought his last boat, a 39-foot Sea Ray that he named Captain Jerry's Queen Hannah, after his wife.

As he had done earlier with his Cessna, Mr. Millman enjoyed entertaining family and friends with long bay cruises and visits to the Eastern Shore.

The longtime Pikesville resident was a member of the Liberty Jewish Center.

Services were held Tuesday.

Also surviving are his wife of 60 years, the former Hannah Teitelbaum; another son, Neil R. Millman of Sarasota, Fla.; a brother and business partner, Sidney Millman of Pikesville; and nine grandchildren.

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