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Brodsky and Winokur Family Trees |
Updated 3/29/2020 |
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Harry Brodsky's death notice says that he is survived by a sister named Celia Shankin. This seems to refer to the Celia Brodsky who married William Shankin, but that Celia's tombstone identifies her as the daughter of Abraham, not Hillel like the other Brodskys. I have assumed that this is Harry's sister and Hillel's daughter and the tombstone is in error for some reason.
Celia Brodsky was born in Ukraine on September 7, 1887. She came to Philadelphia in September 1906 on the Friesland with her mother and her sister Fannie. She married William Shankin in Philadelphia on August 13, 1908, a week before William's sister Mamie married Celia's brother William. Celia's mother Sarah signed a consent to this marriage, because Celia was not yet 21. The two couples were married by the same rabbi.1 William Shankin was born in Russia on February 10, 1886. He came to America in 1906 and was naturalized on February 14, 1946. He worked as picture framer and later owned an art shop. They had four children.
William died on February 23, 1947 in Philadelphia of a pulmonary infarction and was buried at Mount Lebanon Cemetery near Philadelphia. Celia survived him by almost 30 years but never remarried. She died on September 15, 1975 in Los Angeles, where two of her children were living at the time, and was buried with William at Mount Lebanon.
Minnie Shankin was born in Pennsylvania on May 30, 1909. She was later known as Mildred. She worked for a time as retail salesgirl. In the 1940s, she moved to Los Angeles, where her mother's brother, William and his wife, Mildred's father's sister, lived. In Los Angeles, she married Sam Stabin on November 25, 1953. Sam was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 5, 1924. He served in the Army and was honorably discharged before March 20, 1949. They had apparently did not have any children: Mildred was already over 40 when they married.
Sam died on October 16, 2004 in Tarzana, California. Mildred died on January 23, 2008.
Julius Shankin was born in Philadelphia on April 25, 1910. Later he was known as Howard. He worked for a time as a salesman in his father's art shop. He served in the Army during World War II.
After the war, Howard married Helen Mehr. Helen was born in Rhode Island on January 2, 1911. They had one child.
Howard died on March 17, 1974 and was buried at Mount Sharon Cemetery near Philadelphia on March 19, 1974. Helen died on December 18, 2002 and was buried with Howard at Mount Sharon.
Leon Shankin was born in Pennsylvania on January 8, 1914. He served in the Army during World War II. Later he worked as salesman for Gindy Trailers.
He married Frances Levin in Philadelphia in 1941. Frances was born on October 9, 1920. They had three children.
Leon died on January 25, 1966 and was buried at King David Memorial Park near Philadelphia. Frances survived him by more than 40 years. She remarried during that time to a widower with four adult children of his own. They remained married until Frances' death on August 11, 2011 from cardiovascular disease. Frances was buried at King David Memorial Park, probably with Leon.
Morris Shankin was born in Philadelphia on May 25, 1923. He served in the Army during World War II.
He married Helene Marcia Kaplan in Los Angeles on July 15, 1956. Helene was born in 1938. The marriage was short-lived: Morris remarried to Ruth Rita Gelman in Los Angeles on September 1, 1960. Ruth was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 25, 1932. She was a divorcee, apparently with two daughters from a previous marriage, although the birth records for those daughters give their surname as Shankin. Perhaps Morris adopted them after the marriage and their birth records were amended.
Ruth died on November 8, 1998 and was buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Morris died on December 22, 2016 and was buried with Ruth at Mount Sinai.
| 1. | Both couples were married by Rabbi Abraham Hirsh Ershler (sometimes spelled Erschler), a well-respected rabbi in Philadelphia but one who had a reputation for being tardy in providing returns of marriages to the city within 30 days as required by law. These two Brodsky-Shankin marriage returns were among the 600 returns that the rabbi's widow found in the basement after the rabbi's death in November 1910. It is clear that these marriages were part of that pile because both returns were stamped as filed on March 28, 1911, the day before this scandal was reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Lancaster New Era. |
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