Nadene Goldfoot
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| Nathan Abraham Goldfus (Goldfoot) |
Nathan was born in Telsiai, Lithuania on January 1, 1871 and emigrated to England, then Dublin, Ireland and finally landed in Council, Idaho after taking a ship from Ireland to Quebec, Canada. In Council he met Zlata "Hattie" Jermulowske born January 11, 1886 in Lazdijai, Suwalki, Lithuania, which became part of Poland, and they married on November 20, 1905. Then they moved to Portland, Oregon with baby Charlie in 1906. He died July 19, 1912 . Nathan had a horse and wagon given to him by a helpful Jewish society. He delivered goods in this wagon from the Willamette River to SE Portland. One day the horse was spooked and ran, tipping over and Nathan hit his head and was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. It was the old one, not the new one that his great grandson, Steve Henwood has worked in as a nurse. He died, not waking up, on a Friday, July 19, 1912. In the meantime, his wife Zlata, 5 months pregnant, was most upset as she didn't know what had happened. He hadn't come home for Shabbas and she was besides herself. Finally, after he had passed away, his friend came and told her, and she was so upset, of course! She cursed the man for not coming to her on Friday to tell her, and he died 2 years later. Baby Ann was then born on November 11, 1912. Nathan hadn't trusted banks, but hid his money, he told Zlata, in the horse shed. She searched and searched but never did find it.
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Outgoing, full of heck,
great dresser
Uncle Charlie |
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| Charlie on left, Moshe (Morris) on right |
Their first son, Charles, was born there September 22, 1906. He and his brother, Maurice, attended Failing Grade School in South Portland, which was near the Neighborhood House and the Gulch where Zlata raised goats for a while. Then she worked plucking chickens. Uncle Charles married Helen Hochfeld on July 11, 1929 in Portland, Oregon. Her folks had a big department store. They moved to Grand Coulee, Washington in 1939 where Charlie had a clothing store and was a volunteer with their fire department. Charlie died on December 17, 1949. My dad, Maurice, drove up there to attend the funeral and brought back my cousin, Nate Goldfoot who lived with us for a while. I remember my dad got us a 40 Plymouth and Nate drove us to school where he dropped me off at Washington High and he continued on to Benson High just beyond it.
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| Aunt Elsie Eichman holding me |
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| Nate, myself and Uncle Charlie |
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Morris Goldfoot
AKA Billy Meshke |
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| Charlie Goldfoot with son Nathan |
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Maurice, Mildred, Nada and David (b:1942)
if David's 3, I'm 11; possible-or David 5 and I'm 13. |
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| Maurice at the coast. |
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| Me and my Dad, Maurice |
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| Me and my Dad Morrie |
Moses (Morris--Maurice Goldfoot was born in Portland on July 1, 1908. He remembered sitting on his dad's lap who had a beard. He loved playing on the baseball team at Commerce High but wasn't able to finish and graduate as he felt he needed to go to work to help support his mom and his 3 other siblings. His parents had had a 3rd son born, Abraham, in August of 1909, who died when an infant in his parents' feather bed. Since then 2 daughters were born; Elsie and Ann, the baby Anne born after their father's death 4 months later. .Morrie met my mother, Mildred Elizabeth Robinson in South Portland where he worked in a butcher shop. She was living with a Jewish family, the Gurions, as their nanny. She would walk by the butcher shop with her charges and he noticed her, talked and they dated. They married on April 29, 1932. I was born in 1934, 6 months after Charles and Helen's son, Nathan Bernard.
Eight years later, my brother, David Goldfoot was born.
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| Nada, Don at Zoo |
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| Zlata (Bobbie) with Moshe and me. |
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Aunt Elsie with her black hair took after her mother's
coloring. |
Elsie was born on March 10, 1911. I remember that she worked in Mosler's Bakery, and so did Anne, her little sister. The girls were able to finish high school. Elsie worked with Al (Albert) Eichman at the bakery, and they married on February 3, 1934. Don was born in November of 1937.
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| Anne, Zlata and Harriett, her first child |
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Married in South Portland
in Neveh Zedek
Synagogue by Rabbi
Kleinman. |
Anne Naomi Goldfoot was born November 11, 1912, after her father had died in the horse and wagon accident. She met Werner Oster through my dad, Meshke since their uncle Max had sponsored him, a German Jewish refugee, and got him a job with my father's new business of Lincoln Wholesale Meats across the street from the Lincoln Theater in South Portland. Werner's parents had had a sausage market in Germany. Werner got out of Germany in May of 1939 and went to New York first. I have in my records that they married September 1, 1939. I remember being the flower girl in their wedding. We have the movie reel of the wedding.
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David, Charlotte, Dianne, 2 neighbors, Joan Padrow, Pat Schumacher,
Pat Gustin, Donald Hart, Nadene for David's birthday? |
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Maurice holding David, Uncle Kennie Robinson holding Charlotte, and Werner
holding Darlene in our back yard. I'm about 10, sitting on the grass.
Standing is Dianne Robinson, Harriet Oster and Donnie Eichman,
all my cousins and brother. Taken before 1946 when Kenneth Robinson
was born. Charlotte was born in 1942, so it must have been in 1944.
Gee, it was cool that we all got together with our fathers like this.
Cousins galore from Mom's side and Dad's side.
On the left is Rabbi Abraham Goldberg born in England who lived in
Israel. He was the man who helped to steer me to Telsiai, Lithuania to find
our Goldfus/Goldfoot line. He was slaughtered in a synagogue in Israel by terrorists. It was after that when I was notified of his death that I had found out he was a rabbi. He's connected to Stanley Goldfoot's line. |
