by marlenetrestman | Jan 15, 2025
Aubrey & Norman Mayer In 1923, nearly five years after the death of husband, Jesse Louis Mayer, Margot Mannison Mayer admitted her two boys to the Home from El Paso, Texas. Aubrey Edward was 8 years old and Norman David was 7. After the boys entered the Home,...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 9, 2025
Rebecca (Bella) Lazaroff In 1920, Rosa Lazaroff, a Russian immigrant widow, married Harry Ripps. The couple lived in Mobile, Alabama with Rosa’s daughter, Rebecca Lazaroff, who was born in New York in 1913. In June 1923, Rosa died. Four months later, Harry...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 8, 2025
Helen & Ruth Eldrich While on his way to find work in neighboring Goose Creek, forty-one-year-old Sigmund Eldrich, a peddler, suddenly died at Houston’s Union Station in March 1922. The next year, Sigmund’s widow, the former Tillie Blum, placed their...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 6, 2025
Adele, Bessie, Louise, and Sarah Karp In 1923, Rosie Dubinski Karp admitted her three eldest daughters to the Home: Louise (2), Bessie (3), and Adele (5). Three years later, their youngest sister, Sarah, joined them. As for their father, Jacob, who had earlier worked...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 31, 2024
Louis Cohen Louis Cohen arrived at the Home at age 3 in December 1922. Apart from news clippings reporting that he appeared in the Home’s 1933 anniversary performance of Alice in Wonderland and that he graduated in 1937 from Samuel Peters Commercial High School...
