Oscar Obert (1931 – June 24, 2016) was an American one, three, and four wall National

Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

Champion. Obert won 42 open national and world titles (which includes twenty open USHA national titles), more than any other player in the history of the sport. Oscar Obert, together with his younger brothers Carl and Ruby, were dominant players in the mid-1950s through to the mid-1960s, winning 92 open national and world titles, including consecutive championships in the early 1960s in both singles and doubles. Obert was inducted into the Handball Hall of Fame in 1972. The funeral was held at

Kensico Cemetery Kensico Cemetery, located in Valhalla, New York, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York was founded in 1889, when many New York City cemeteries were becoming full, and rural cemeteries were being created near the railroads that served the city ...

, Tower Garden lot #99 located at 273 Lakeview Ave. Valhalla, NY. The time was approximately 11:30 a.m.

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Hinckley, David 2003 "Hand and Ball"
''New York Daily News''
United States Handball Association
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