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Family of Sender Berka BENSMAN and Fanny MERYN

Husband: Sender Berka BENSMAN

  • Name:

  • Sender Berka BENSMAN

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Samuel BENSMAN (1856-1922)

  • Mother:

  • Mara Beila Tzipa LEVINE (1858-1926)

  • Birth:

  • Mar 3, 1876

  • Beshenkowitz, Lepel, Vitebsk, Russian Empire

  • Immigration:

  • Oct 20, 1902 (age 26)

  • to New York, NY from Antwerp, Belgium

  •  

  • Vessel: S.S. Zealand

  • Naturalisation:

  • May 10, 1937 (age 61)

  • U.S. District Court

  •  

  • Address: Milwaukee, WI

  • Death:

  • Dec 25, 1956 (age 80)

  • Milwaukee, WI

  • Burial:

  • Dec 28, 1956

  • Spring Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Milwaukee, WI

  •  

  • Hebrew inscription:

    אלכסנדר בער בר שמואל

    Translation:

    Aleksandr Ber son of reb Shmuel

Wife: Fanny MERYN

  • Name:

  • Fanny MERYN

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • Jan 1, 1887

  • Homlih, Russia

  • Death:

  • 1969 (age 82)

  • Milwaukee, WI

  • Burial:

  • 1969

  • Spring Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum

  •  

  • Address: Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

    Hebrew inscription: לנייפ תב ר יול קחצי Translation: __ daughter of reb Levi Yitzhak There is a memorial for Fannie that includes an image of her tombstone. The name listed in the Hebrew inscription for her may have been misspelled or an attempt to transliterate Fannie into Hebrew. Transliterated, the name is Final or Pinal.

Note on Husband: Sender Berka BENSMAN

Born in Russia, Mr. Bensman came to Milwaukee in 1908. He was the former owner of the Bensman funeral home which after his retirement in 1953, merged with the Goodman Funeral Home. He was a co-founder and past President of Congregation Anshe Lebowitz and a member of the Home for Aged Jews, the Jewish Convalescent Home, and the Mizrachi organization. He formerly belonged to the Milwaukee County Wisconsin State and National Funeral Directors Associations and the National Jewish Funeral Directors Association.

Survivors include his wife Fannie; 6 daughters, Anna Mendelson,

Dorothy Pomerance and Esther Gersuk of Detroit, Rose Friedman and Edyth Laber of Milwaukee, and Fay Aronoff of Toledo, Ohio. 4 sons: Sam, Ralph, and Irving of Detroit and Al M. of Long Beach, California; 3 brothers, Ben and Max of Milwaukee and Louis of Detroit; 2 sisters, Anna Greenstein of Madison, Wisconsin and Elizabeth Cohen of Weyauwega, Wisconsin.