specialty finance company, appearing in national television commercials and print ads. Since around 2010, the soda company Rocket Fizz has marketed a beverage, Judge Wapner Cream Soda, featuring the slogan, "I sentence you to drink my cream soda." Personal life, final years and death Wapner was active in Jewish causes, including sitting on the board of a Jewish school. He married Mildred "Mickey" Nebenzahl in 1946. Their daughter Sarah died from heart disease in May 2015 at age 56. They also had two sons who became attorneys: David Miron-Wapner and Frederick Nathan Wapner, the latter of whom was a prosecutor and LA District Attorney who also became a judge (including with the Los Angeles County Superior Court). Wapner also had four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Wapner died from respiratory failure on February 26, 2017, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97 years old. He is interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. References External links 1919 births 2017 deaths United States Army personnel of World War II California state court judges Lawyers from Los Angeles Writers from Los Angeles USC Gould School of Law alumni Jewish American attorneys Television judges Military personnel from California Jewish American military personnel Superior court judges in the United States American people of Romanian-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent American writers of Russian descent Burials at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery 20th-century American judges 20th-century American lawyers United States Army officers 21st-century American Jews Respiratory disease deaths in California