by marlenetrestman | Mar 14, 2025
Ellis, Van & Carol Hart In early 1926, H. Van Eaton Hart, a merchant, and his wife, the former Lillie Oppenheim, were living in Beaumont, Texas with their four sons when H. Van Eaton died of pneumonia. Unable to care for her sons alone, Lillie moved the family to...
by marlenetrestman | Mar 11, 2025
Eugene, Milton, Dollie, & Julius Fruchtgarten In 1927, Adolph Fruchtgarten of New Orleans admitted his four children, Eugene (10), Milton (8), Dollie (5), and Julius (3), to the Home. What happened to Adolph’s wife, the former Henrietta Hyman, is unrecorded...
by marlenetrestman | Mar 11, 2025
Sam Levitan In 1927, following the death of his wife, Tillie, New Orleans salesman Herman Levitan admitted his two-year-old son, Sam, to the Home. Sam’s earliest memories of the Home were walking around in his crib while being surrounded by admiring young girls....
by marlenetrestman | Mar 10, 2025
Lillian Hofstetter When Lillian was two, her mother died. She shuttled between two aunts in New Orleans while her father traveled frequently for his job as a ship steward. In 1927, at age 6, Lillian was admitted to the Home. After attending Newman School for the lower...
by marlenetrestman | Mar 10, 2025
Rose Sohmers Rose Sohmers was admitted to the Home in December 1926 at the age of 23 months by her father, Felix, a cabinetmaker. What happened to her mother, the former Rosie Felsenstein, is today unrecorded. As told to her by Home Nurse Anna Levine...
