Relation to Ralph (Sonny) ShankmanIrving Katz, the brother of Robert Ellis Katz, the father of Ellis Robert Katz, the father of Private, the husband of Private, the daughter of Margie Sylvia Evensky Goodman, the daughter of Bessie Rose (Rochel) Margolin Evensky, the sister of Lena (Chasha Baila) Margolin Shankman, the mother of Ralph (Sonny) Shankman
When Irving Katz was born on August 31, 1898, in Chicago, Illinois, his father, Elias, was 37 and his mother, Ella, was 33. He married Sarah Stein in 1930. They had one child during their marriage. He died on August 13, 1988, in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 89, and was buried there.