Bernard J. "Bitzy" Bitman, who spent 18 years filling a North Shore temple with Big Band jazz and spent part of his life in Concord, died Aug. 4 at the age of 100.

His daughter Leslie Bitman and her husband, Paul Cohn, still live in Concord. His son Doug Bitman and wife Susan Sinclair live in Brookline.

Bitman served as president of Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead, where he and his late wife Estelle were deeply active members. But it was his long run producing Big Band jazz concerts at the temple that left the widest mark. For nearly two decades, he brought live Big Band music and dancing to the North Shore community, according to his family's obituary.

Everyone called him Bitzy.

In their published obituary, his family described him as a kind, humble man with a sharp sense of humor, calling him "the least neurotic person one could ever meet."

Born Nov. 14, 1925, Bitman was an American history buff who loved traveling, jazz, golf and watching baseball. He and Estelle moved to Swampscott roughly 50 years ago and threw themselves into community life there and at the temple.

The Patch AM newsletter noted his passing on Saturday, Aug. 22, calling him a "longtime community member" remembered as a kind and humorous "mensch."

Bitman is also survived by grandchildren Sophie Fiksdal of Dedham and Isabelle Neiva of Cambridge, and siblings Rene Davidson of South Carolina and Irving Bitman of New Jersey.

A funeral service was held Aug. 6 at Temple Emanu-El of Marblehead Memorial Park in Danvers, followed by a memorial observance at Temple Sinai in Brookline.

The family asks that those wishing to honor Bitman's memory make donations to the Alzheimer's Association or Temple Emanu-El of Marblehead in lieu of flowers.