Goldfoot Genealogy

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

                   Charlie sitting, 6  and Meshke, my father, standing at 4, Jewish parents from Lithuania and their father just dying in an accident.  They are 2nd generation immigrants;  1st born here.  

I say the very narrow world of my father, Moses/Morris/Maurice Goldfoot is because he was born on July1,  1908 at 277 Baker Street in South Portland and died in 1967. His father died from an accident involving his horse and wagon when he was 4 years old and his brother, Charlie, was 6.  They sold newspapers on the street and were able to make change.  My father, the smaller and lighter haired trailing behind his brother got the most business, he told us.  Then they'd come home and give the change to their mother.  Sometimes they managed to go to the movies.  Their mother, my Bubby, was so short she was almost midget-size, and only spoke Yiddish, completely illiterate from Lithuania as both parents were.   

As a child, he went to movies.    Motion pictures debuted in Oregon in 1894 when a kinetoscope arrived in Portland. The innovative technology allowed boxing matches, vaudeville acts, and other popular entertainment to be shown in penny arcades and peepshows and, after 1906, on the nickelodeon. 

Soon early films were being projected in theaters, first at Cordray’s Opera House in Portland. By 1897, local documentary films were being made, including Fishing on the Willamette (1897), The Portland Fire Department (1901), Decoration Day Parade (1902), Panoramic View of the Columbia (1904), and Opening Ceremonies of the Lewis & Clark Exposition Grounds (1905). One of the first feature films made in the state was The Fisherman's Bride, a 1908 silent film produced by Col.    He picked up English when he started school.  

 He lived in a day consisting of the radio.  Just before he died in 67, we had TV in the house by 1953.   One of Portland's first radio station licenses was granted to The Portland Telegram and the first broadcast was heard on November 21, 1921 from the Telegram's offices in the Pittock Block.  By his teens at 13, the year would have been 1921, so he may have had radio by then. "The Sheik of Araby" w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder was popular.  

                      

I remember sitting around our radio in the living room in Portland's Ladd's Addition and listening to Lux Theater.  Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55).                

Dad went in for all the sports; running, and loved baseball.  He had to quit high school before he started his senior year to help support the family of his mother, brother and two sisters. He hated giving up baseball but could weigh the more needed skill that he had-working-against enjoying something.   

              Mel Blanc, both born in 1908, a month older

I presume my father listened much earlier, and also in his many trucks.  He went to Failing Grade School in SW Portland with Mel Blank .Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank  May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs, including those of Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, Judy Canova, and his own short-lived sitcom.    

Blanc was born on May 30, 1908 in San Francisco, California, to Eva (née Katz), a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant, and Frederick Blank (born in New York to German Jewish parents), the younger of two children. He grew up in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood, and later in Portland, Oregon, where he attended Lincoln High School. He had an early fondness for voices and dialect, which he began practicing at the age of 10. He claimed that he changed the spelling of his name when he was 16, from Blank to Blanc, because a teacher told him that he would amount to nothing and be like his name, a "blank". He joined the Order of DeMolay as a young man, and was eventually inducted into its Hall of Fame. After graduating from high school in 1927, he divided his time between leading an orchestra, becoming the youngest conductor in the country at the age of 19; and performing shtick in vaudeville shows around Washington, Oregon and northern California.

        Dad, fighting under the alias of Billy Meshke

The Neighborhood House was right around the corner and that's where he started boxing, and went into it there professionally.  He said that if the opposition looked really tough, he'd lay down rather than be beaten to a pulp.  He had boxes of his gloves in our basement.  

At about that time he tried marriage with a Rose Zusman, but that was over about as soon as it started, marrying June 3, 1928 when he was 19 and divorced August 12, 1929 at 20. He worked for the kosher butcher on 3rd and Lincoln where the Lincoln Theater resided a few doors away.  

Then he met my tall mother, Mildred Elizabeth Robinson and married on April 29, 1932, bringing her home to his mother who they lived with for a few months.  Mom learned how to make a lot of Jewish dishes that Bubby was known for. He was still with the kosher butcher when I was born in 1934. His minimum wage was $0.40 per hour.  He got so he gave my mom $15 per week for groceries.  That's what he paid me per week when I was 16 and could drive myself to work.  I'd do his books after school.      

                                1934 During the Depression
                                         

Shipyards, Dad's 2nd job 

                                        
     Out of 24 hours, he worked 8 here at the shipyards, then the rest in his own business, buying cattle, selling hides to the government, meat to people.  He must have slept very little; never went to synagogue, unfortunately;  trying to provide security  for his family that he never had. 

Ann was born after her father had died.  Here she's with Bubby and her daughter, Harriet.  Bubby lived with Ann and her husband, Werner helping her with her 5 girls.

I loved it when he did get together with his sisters in Portland.  They'd speak Yiddish and laugh and laugh. Elsie had one son, Donnie.   I wonder if they mentioned how Bubby used to use the broom when they were under the bed to reach them.  She was outnumbered 4:1.  To provide for them, she had been a chicken plucker.                             

By 1941 we were at war, the 2nd World War.  Dad was exempt from the draft as he was in a business of buying hides by then with the beginnings of his own wholesale Meat Co.; leather for army boots.  So he, who never hammered a nail, became the manager at the ship yards of a group of workers. With his own business of Lincoln Wholesale Meats, he had butchers working for him; and my little cousin, Don, who finally was able to drive one of his trucks for him after school.

                   Silver Falls Meat Packing cattle truck

Dad never took a vacation but probably enjoyed the auction houses he drove to across Oregon in buying cattle more than he would any vacation.  A Jewish guy wearing jeans and flannel shirts and cowboy boots must have been quite a sight, sort of a Mel Brooks in "Blazing Saddles," 

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Dad made it big, but no hat; but wore the boots.  You walk around horse manure in cattle auctions, you know.    He wound up on Columbia Blvd next door to Swift and Armour with his new business of Silver Falls Meat Packing Co.  Though I had been keeping his books for him single-handed since age 15; when he moved in there, he hired professionals with machines.  I lost my job!  The best I did was enter college, and finally one day, while teaching at Lindbergh Grade School in Ontario, Oregon, got the school camera and made a study of cow to table...went through Silver Falls taking pictures and telling the story of meat.  

          6 hr 20 min (375.4 mi) via I-84 E driving....Portland to Ontario

When he came home from the road, being gone all week, he'd watch TV.  Life was all work and no play;  no reading great books or any book for that matter;  only magazines.   

Dad died on July 23, 1967, flown into Portland from Ontario to the Portland hospital. His illness happened right after Israel's 6 Day War (June 5th to June 10th 1967)   He had become ill and died in about 3 weeks at age 59. He probably didn't even follow the war, nor know about any of them as they didn't make the Portland papers.  What was in his life was the price of cattle, and what his children were doing.  He was so lucky that our mom was the kind who liked her freedom but also felt and needed that security he provided. She and I had a good time together.  

Dad died after being in the St. Vincent's hospital in Portland for four days.   He was only 59 years old.  He died at 11:00pm.  He's buried in the Shaarie Torah Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.  They spelled his mother's name as Hattie Germankoski on the death certificate.

He had hepatitis.  He had had a blood transfusion after surgery.  He had gone into shock.  They used hypnosis to bring him out.  The prostrate was operated on and was swelling.  It was hyperplasic.

Since then, I've heard from business men who were helped and got their start in business from my father.  That's a very Jewish mitzvah.  He helped many.  

He died in St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland and so did his father, most likely different buildings between the old hospital and the new one.       

Labels: baseball, Billy Meshke, boxing, butcher, meat packer, Mel Blanc, new immigrants, Ontario, Oregon, Oregon shipyards, Portland

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                         

                 1934-1935 with Dad, Morris Goldfoot in Portland    15 in 1949  in Portland and boyfriend Mort had left town

My family had moved to SE Portland of Ladds Addition that consisted of a mixed population of 3 Jewish families of Padrow and Robinson and Bricker and us; Swedish, several Chinese, Irish, and Italians and others.  Our school potlucks were a marvelous feast of around the world foods.  When I was born, my father worked in South Portland where he was born, in the kosher butcher shop on Lincoln Street. 

Later on, he had his own business of Lincoln Wholesale Meats, and after that he had grown into Silver Falls Meat Packing Co. I don't think anyone cared that he was like the Jewish Cowboy with jeans down to his hips way back then, and even wore cowboy boots. He was a great cattle-buyer and truck driver.  Being Jewish was not an issue that I ever heard about.     

     Middle aged in Ontario, Oregon dressed for Rosh Hashanah, and my mother and I were the only Jews in this town.  Oh yes, we did find one lady who had married an Italian fellow, and she became my mom's best friend.  This was a town that was important to my father's business.  He had a feed lot here for his cattle.   I taught 4th grade.  

  1980 Mom gave us a party before we left; making aliyah to Israel.  Danny was a lost Brooklynite who found us a synagogue in Boise, Idaho.  We moved to Israel and both of us were teachers.  

                                                 

     86 years, hiking in April 2021 in Gresham, Oregon

The problem of anti-Semitism and my life synchronize.  From 1933 on, life in Germany for the Jewish people had changed dramatically.  It was the start of a government sponsoring anti-Semitism as Hitler was coming into power.  I was born in 1934 and fortunately for me, in the United States. So here I am in January 2023 and still am alive!

I still am witnessing anti-Semitism in the world, and it's been 89 years since it started in 1933, that is governmental sponsored anti-Semitism.  

In their 25-point party program published in 1920, Nazi Party members publicly declared their intention to segregate Jews from “Aryan” society and to abrogate their political, legal, and civil rights.

Nazi leaders began to make good on their pledge to persecute German Jews soon after their assumption of power. During the first six years of Hitler's dictatorship, from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939, Jews felt the effects of more than 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives. Many of these were national laws that had been issued by the German administration and affected all Jews. But state, regional, and municipal officials, acting on their own initiatives, also issued many exclusionary decrees in their own communities. Thus, hundreds of individuals in all levels of government throughout the country were involved in the persecution of Jews as they conceived, discussed, drafted, adopted, enforced, and supported anti-Jewish legislation. No corner of Germany was left untouched.

Then Nazi Germany entered Poland on September 1, 1939 and their hatred  and jealousy of and for Jews spread throughout the world.  WWII had started.

To justify the action, Nazi propagandists accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans living in Poland. They also falsely claimed that Poland was planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle and dismember Germany.

According to their logic, they, who were persecuting Jews living in Germany, should have had the world to invade Germany to free the Jews.  Ha!  No one came to the Jews' aid, not even the United States.  They were dealing with their own anti-Semitism at that time.  No Jews allowed into many athletic clubs;  the telephone company of NY not hiring Jewish women,  These are things that happened to my friends.

                                           

   Nessim Menashe shoe store, West Burnside, Portland, c.1916.Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 023972  

In the first half of the 20th century, Jews were discriminated against in employment, access to residential and resort areas, membership in clubs and organizations, and in tightened quotas on Jewish enrollment and teaching positions in colleges and universities. Restaurants, hotels and other establishments that barred Jews from entry were called "restricted".  As to stores, they started their own.  That's how Meir & Franks

 developed.                         

1948-1951 My cousin Nathan Goldfoot 3rd from left, me on right, my boy

friend, Sam Arnstein, on left, at one of our formal dances.  

My Jewish peers and I were not asked to join any sororities or 

fraternities in   high school or college so we had our own.  Actually, we had a great time and 

had formal dances at wonderful places.  I remember sitting in 

the cafeteria of 

high school and the other students were talking about those 

terrible Jews.  I  mentioned that I was Jewish, and were they

 ever surprised! 

 That was it; I embarrassed them.  It felt good.  

Jews encountered resistance when they tried to move into white-collar and professional positions. Banking, insurance, public utilities, medical schools, hospitals, large law firms and faculty positions, restricted the entrance of Jews. This era of "polite" Judeophobia through social discrimination, underwent an ideological escalation in the 1930s.  Many Jewish students were turned away from Medical school as they had quotas, and we had so many bright and eager Jews that missed out becoming doctors, something my father would have loved to be able to do, but he was one of the poor Jews.  He went on to be the designer and owner of his own meat packing company, and he knew a lot, so much, about anatomy.  

My family and I living on the West Coast weren't harmed, but throughout the world, other Jews were losing their lives.  

Portland had 8,000 Jews in the 1920s.  Today, Portland is home to more than 40,000 Jewish residents, and Jewish history in Oregon goes back to 1849.   Many Jewish residents helped shape Portland’s future, such as Bernard Goldsmith, the mayor of Portland from 1869-1871, who built the Willamette Falls Locks in Oregon City; Aaron and Jeanette Meier and Emil Frank, of the Meier & Frank department stores; “Soda Pop King” Louis Albert; and Sam Schnitzer of Schnitzer Steel, to name just a few.

TABLE B (CONTINUED) Jewish Jewish City Population City Population Kansas City, Mo 12,000 Reading, Pa 1,750 Butte, Mont 1,000 Scranton, Pa 7,500 Omaha, Neb 10.000 Providence, R. 1 15,000 Camden, N. J 2,000 Memphis, Tenn 7,000 Jersey City, N. J. 12,500 Nashville, Tenn 3,000 Paterson, N. J 15,000 Dallas, Tex 8,000 Trenton, N. J 7,000 Fort Worth, Tex 2,250 Albany, N. Y 7,000 Houston, Tex 5,000 Buffalo, N. Y 20,000 San Antonio, Tex 3,000 Rochester, N. Y 20,000 Salt Lake City, Utah... 2,500 Syracuse, N. Y 12,000 Richmond, Va 4,000 Akron, 0 2,000 Seattle, Wash 5,000 Cincinnati, 0 25,000 Spokane, Wash 1,100 Columbus, 0 9,000 Tacoma, Wash 900 Dayton, 0 4,000 Milwaukee, Wis 20,000 Toledo, 0 7,500 Youngstown, 0 5,000 Total 513,000 Portland, Ore 8,000 or about 4.1$ As to cities of the second class, namely, those having a general population of between 50,000 and 100,000, their percentage of Jews averages about three per cent. Generally speaking, with regard to both classes mentioned above, it may here be noted that the proportion of Jewish residents is greater than the mean in the East, and less than the average in the West. The tables given below are peculiarly instructive as exhibiting how the percentage of Jewish residents tends to become gradually lower as the total number of citizens decreases.

Children of Eastern European and Sephardic immigrants who came of age in the 1920s and 1930s remember the neighborhood as insular and nurturing. It was a time of increased antisemitism locally and nationally, and the neighborhood of South Portland and its institutions provided a respite. Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, and accelerating in the 1940s and 1950s, families moved to more prosperous areas of the city. Still, South Portland remained a Jewish institutional hub, with ethnic shops, the Portland Hebrew School, the Jewish Home for the Aged, Neighborhood House, the B’nai B’rith Building (later the Jewish Community Center), and all but two of the city’s congregations.

Anti-Semitism makes fun of to the point of cruelty of being Jewish.  It states that Jews are stupid when our IQs say otherwise.                             

Many of our Jews could be classified as "star" people, and we are the Star of David people,  a group talked about of immense talent in many fields on the internet today.  The author implies that they may have come from the stars.  Well, our people did come as aliens from other countries but not from the stars.  For us it was good genes; good families that believed in education.  Native Americans, Chinese, etc all have found star people among themselves.  

Resource:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitic-legislation-1933-1939

https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/jewishpop-ajc.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism_in_the_United_States

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/invasion-of-poland-fall-1939#:~:text=On%20September%201%2C%201939%2C%20Germany,to%20encircle%20and%20dismember%20Germany.

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/jews-in-oregon/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_people_(New_Age_belief)

Labels: anti-Semitism, Jewish population, Oregon, Portland, WWII

 Nadene Goldfoot                                   

                                             
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  This baby is me, and I'm now a senior of 88.  Dad died way too young at 59.  His buddy was a pharmacist, and Dad had a dresser filled with vitamins.   Now that we're living longer lives, what do we do when we can't take care of ourselves?  Here's a history of what has happened to our family.  So far, we've been pretty lucky.  I'm still able to live alone.  

Those of us who are lucky reach a senior age past 65.  That's when physical problems start to show up, regardless of what era you are living in.  Today's 2022 happens to find seniors in much better condition than in the past, but that is not a sure thing.  I've seen a lot of seniors live till almost 100 in the past in our genealogy.

Our paternal grandmother, Addie Zlata "Hattie" Jermulowske,  was born  on January 11, 1886 on a Monday in Lazdijai, Suwalki, Lithuania,  and died on a Saturday at the age of 64 years, 10 months and 28 days.  Lazdijai is 54" 14'N,  23"  31'E in Lithuania.  Also spelled as Lozdzieje and it is in Suwalki.    It is 4.3 miles from Poland's border.  For several centuries the territories of Suwalki, Lomza, and Trakai were part of a unified political unit in Greater Lithuania. After that, Suwalki and Lomza were together in the Duchy of Poland while a smaller Trakai was part of Lithuania.  Suwalki is the Gubernia.  Since WWI, Northern part is in Lithuania, southern part in Poland.  Lazdijai was partially in Poland, a major town. She had a hard life, immigrating from Lithuania to Washington and living in a wee little mining town first with her family further away in Council, Idaho.  She washed dishes at a bar/restaurant there at age 17 and she was so tiny.  Her legs were broken in a pogrom in Lithuania, stunting her height even more.  

10/12/06  According to the marriage certificate, both Addie and Nathan lived in Council, Idaho when they married on 20 Nov. 1905.  Sam and Harry Criss were witnesses.  Other witnesses were C.J. Urdrick and Jamy (possibly Jenny) Criss.  D.J. Richardson was the JP that married them.  Frank E. Smith was the County Recorder.   She said she immigrated from Hamburg, Germany. on the vessel "Altverten" and said she was married.  That means Nathan and she came together though they married in Council, Idaho.  She arrived at New York City port in New York around 6th of May, 1903. (Think she didn't understand the question as she never learned to speak

 English.) 

                 Ann, Bubba and Ann's first daughter-Harriett

Starting with  Bubba, my Dad's tiny, petite mother, Zlata (Addie, Hattie, Ettie) Jermulowske (1/11/1886-12/9/1950) ,  Bubba was a widow with 4 children by 1912  when she was only 26 years old. 

    1926 Portland, Oregon's South Portland with SE Portland 

 Her oldest, Charlie, married Helen and they moved to their own home.  My father, Morris, married Mom-Mildred and they lived with Bubba until they moved to SE Orange Street in Ladd's Addition, and then a few months later to their permanent home on Spruce Street.  Elsie married Al and Don, an important grandson, was born.  He would be a major help to Bubba as she lived alone at times by living with her.  Don learned Yiddish this way as that's what Bubba spoke.  Ann was left, and married Werner. They lived with Bubba, and  had 5 girls.    

Ann and Werner's 5 girls were lucky to have had Bubba take care of them as they were living with Bubba until they moved to their home off of Hawthorne Avenue, the last to leave South Portland.  Ann (11/11/1912 died 9/19/1972 during the high holidays or just after of a heart attack, leaving Werner and her last daughter, Sandra.  The other 4 had moved elsewhere through marriage or work.  Harriett had married Bill in 1971;  Darlene married Bob in 1964;  Francis married Larry in 1965;  Rose married Art in about 1970, and Bubba had died on December 9, 1950 and Sandra was born in April 1949.  She was lucky to have been born while Bubba was still with us and doing well.  So Bubba spent her life living with her children.  Harriet( 6/25/1941-1/17/1999), the first daughter, has died at age 57 years  6 months  23 days from throat cancer.   Darlene (9/9/1942-11/11/2020), 2nd daughter  died at age 78 years  2 months 2 days. 

Zlata's husband, our grandfather Nathan Abraham Goldfus/Goldfoot, was born on August 5, 1871in Telsiai, Lithuania and died in a horse and wagon accident 110 years ago where he was thrown out of his wagon and had hit his head on a Friday and never woke up and so died on July 19, 1912.   Zlata didn't know what happened as he hadn't come home for Shabbat.  A friend came and told her later.  He was buried on Sunday.  

• Fri, 19 July 1912 = 5th of Av, 5672
• ה׳ בְּאָב תרע״ב

                          

He died in  St. Vincent's hospital on Westover Road where it was in 1912.  His great grandson, Steve, would be a nurse in the new St. Vincent's hospital many years later. 

Zlata's first son was Charles "Haskel" Goldfoot (9/22/1906) in Council, Idaho.  and died 12/17/1949.  I remember my father driving there from Portland in the middle of December and bringing back my cousin, Nate.  Charles died at age 43 years 2 months 25 days from smoking.  

Nathan Bernard Goldfoot with cousin Don Eichman at Center.  

Nate just passed away 4/26/2020, born 2/25/1934 at age 86 years  2 months 1 day.  

   Dad was a pro boxer before becoming a butcher.  He kept his boxing gloves in a box in the basement.  He was Billie Meshke in the boxing world;  had a big poster with his picture, etc.  He was tough, a kid who was out on the streets selling newspapers at age 4.  

My Dad, Moses (on the birth certificate) Morris, Maurice Goldfoot was born 7/1/1908 and died 7/23/1967 in Portland at age 59 years 22 days. He had some kind of attack and had died about 3 weeks later.  I think it was the liver from a former blood transfusion. 

Mom, Mildred Elizabeth Robinson, was born 6/29/1913 and died 10/5/2005 at age 92 years  3 months  6 days.  I was living with her in Ontario, Oregon when she passed away.  That was the other end of his business as a wholesale meat dealer with Silver Falls Meat Packing Co.  They had a home there and kept the Portland home, too, where I spent all my life till I moved away.  It was in Ladd's Addition.                                        

                                      Our family in 1947

Ladd’s Addition is named for William S. Ladd, who served as Portland’s mayor way back in the 1850s. He’s also known for founding Oregon’s first bank in 1859 as well as building the first brick building in Portland!

Believe it not, Ladd’s Addition was once a 126 acre farm, owned by William Ladd himself. In 1891, the city of East Portland became incorporated into Portland proper and the plans for creating a residential neighborhood named Ladd’s Addition began.  Our family moved there in 1935.  

 Mom had a stroke on a Saturday.  I was with her in Ontario, Oregon when it happened, so called the ambulance.  Luckily we were only a few blocks from the hospital.  She died on a Wednesday, the 2nd day of Rosh Hashana, several months later.  That stroke had wiped out all her memory, even that was the ability to read or know any of her family.  It came back, though.  

Abraham, our grandfather Nathan Abraham Goldfus/foot's 3rd child,  was born about August 15, 1909 and died January 25, 1910, dying at age 5 months 10 days, probably of crib death. He slept between his parents in a bed with a feather mattress.     

Elsie  was then born March 10, 1911.  She married Al on 2/3/1934.  Don was born in 1937.  Elsie died 6/8/1986 at age 75 years  2 months 29 days.  She died at the Robinson Home (for the aged) where she knew many of the people there.  Her son had been able to get her in there.  She, of course, was able to speak Yiddish as well as all of Zlata's children did, and had many Yiddish-speaking friends there during her life there.  Evidently all of Zlata's children had attended Commerce High School (became Cleveland later). Dad didn't graduate but quit to work (probably in the Kosher Meats store on Lincoln) to help support the family. He was working there when they were expecting me.   Elsie had been a Deli manager  and both she and Ann had worked for Mosler's Bakery making bagels when younger.  

            

Ann Naomi Goldfoot was born  after her father's death on November 11, 1912, and he had died about 4 months earlier on July 19, 1912.  Here she's with her dog, Bonnie and the next, of course, was as a bride in 1939.  

Ann and Werner Oster, a German Jewish immigrant,  married September 1, 1939.  I was the reluctant 5 year old flower girl.  
She died September 19, 1972 at age 59 years  10 months 8 days, almost the same age as her brother, Maurice who died at 59 and 22 days. Dad only smoked a cigar occasionally, not cigarettes, like Charlie and Elsie.  

I have a brother, David, younger than me, and I hope for his reaching 120 years as Moses had.  In fact, the Jewish "Happy Birthday Wish is that the person reaches 120 years.  Just think, 4,000 years ago the air was cleaner, and COVID didn't exist.  It was possible. If anyone reaches that marvelous age, I do hope it's done in good health.

Mom with Great Aunt Jenny(2/14/1882-4/2/1973) , Alice's sister.  My mom was 5'6" so the Jermulowske sisters  were quite short. In those days, women wore a hat and gloves when they went downtown.   

Great Aunt Alice (4/16/1896-4/10/1990)  and Great Uncle Max Turn 12/1/1889-4/21/1986)  The Turns were close to us. 

         Max Tern's grandfather, Saul "Shal" Turshinsky b: c 1845 
My first real Passover was with them and Uncle Max did the whole seder, every word of it.  They moved into the Robinson Home in their old age.  

Labels: Goldfoot Family, Oregon, Robison Home, Seniors