Isadore Familian

Isadore Familian (1911 – June 13, 2002) was a Los Angeles–based businessman and Jewish community leader who was CEO of Price Pfister Brass Manufacturing Company.

Biography Familian was born in 1911 to a Jewish family in Chicago. When he was two, his family moved to Los Angeles where his father founded Familian Pipe and Supply Co., a plumbing supply business. At the age of 16, he dropped out of Theodore Roosevelt High School to work at the family business. After the war, the company focused on residential faucets, feeding the postwar housing boom. In 1985, NI Industries was purchased by Masco Corporation for $460 million. In 2012, Stanley Black & Decker sold for $1.4 billion its Hardware and Home Improvement Group, including Pfister, to Spectrum Brands Holdings Incorporated.

Philanthropy In 1947, he, along with his wife Sunny, founded the University of Judaism in Hollywood and was on its board of directors. Familian died of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles; services were held at Hillside Memorial Park. Familian was survived by two biological children, Sondra Familian Smalley and Gary Familian; and two step children, Edie Baskin Bronson (married to Richard "Skip" Bronson) and Richard Baskin.