Jay Roger Engel was born on July 30, 1945 and passed away on June 17, 2019. He was predeceased in death by his father Jay T. Engel (1971), his sister Nancy Jo Engel (1996) and his mother Rosalie Weinstein Engel Yarus (2011). Jay was never married. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and had a lifelong passion for cars. He was a graduate of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He will be buried at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio in his family's plot.