Pearl Berman, 92, former owner of a North Side dress shop, died Wednesday in the Selfhelp Home. The daughter of a rabbi, she immigrated to the U.S. from Poland in 1921, and in 1948 opened the Blue Waters Department Store on the West Side with her sister and brother-in-law. After it was burned during the riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, she opened Fashions by P.B. on North Lincoln Avenue, which she owned until the early 1980s. An ardent Zionist, she was active in the Labor Zionist Alliance, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Na’Amat USA. She lived on the Northwest Side. Mrs. Berman is survived by her husband, Joseph; two sons, Nolan and Tribune photographer Chuck Berman two brothers; and four grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Piser Weinstein Menorah Chapels, 3019 W. Peterson Ave.
