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Brodsky and Winokur Family Trees |
Updated 3/29/2020 |
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Welvel Brodsky was born in Ukraine on June 18, 1886. He is probably the one standing toward the left in this picture, but that is only a guess based on the fact that he is the youngest of the four known brothers and that one looks youngest. In 1906, came to America on the SS Haverford from Liverpool to Philadelphia with his brothers Morris and Harry and Morris's wife and children. In America, he was known as William Howard, and in the early 1910s, he shortened his surname to Brod.
William married Mamie Shenkin in Philadelphia on August 21, 1908, a week after his sister Celia married Mamie's brother William Shankin. The two couples were married by the same rabbi.1 Mamie was born in Poltava, Ukraine on September 15, 1887. William and Mamie had four children in Philadelphia.
William worked with his brothers in the painting and interior decorating business for several years, but he became concerned about the medical consequences of breathing paint. He and his family moved to Los Angeles where William took up business as a furniture salesman, later owning and managing his own furniture business.
William died in Los Angeles on May 7, 1942. In 1957, Mamie remarried to Hyman Schulman. She died on February 22, 1967 as Mamie Brod Schulman.
Laines Brodsky was born in Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia on January 7, 1909. He was later known as Leon, apparently named after Mamie's father. Leon moved to California with his parents when he was a child. He worked as machine mill operator in furniture manufacturing, probably related to his father's business.
Leon married Rose Marie Singerman in Los Angeles on April 3, 1933. Rose was born in Los Angeles on June 26, 1911. They had three children.
Rose died on February 9, 1991 in Los Angeles. Leon died on August 31, 1994 in Los Angeles.
Julius Brodsky was born in Philadelphia on August 14, 1910. Later he was known as Howard Brod. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in civil engineering in 1933. He had a long and active career in industrial development.
Howard married Helen Eloise Vance in Chicago on April 24, 1947. Helen was born in Bridgeport, Illinois on September 30, 1906. She worked as chief clerk for General Electric in Los Angeles. They had no children.
Howard retired young, in 1963, and took up painting, becoming commercially successful creating humorous works with golf-related themes. He and Helen moved to Pebble Beach, California.
Howard died on February 15, 2008 in Pebble Beach and was buried at Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo, California. Helen died on December 17, 2003 in Pebble Beach and was buried with Howard at Skylawn.
Samuel William Brod was born in Philadelphia on Easter Sunday, April 7, 1912. On June 25, 1933, he married Lucille Beth Vogel. Lucille was born in Los Angeles on October 15, 1915. The marriage did not last long: they divorced before 1940, when Samuel was living with his parents and single in the census and Lucille remarried.
Samuel remarried to Joule Louise Bauer in Los Angeles on October 4, 1944. Joule was born in Cook County, Illinois on October 31, 1921. They had 3 children, all of whom are living.
Samuel died in Texas on January 22, 1998 and was buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, Los Angeles. Joule died on August 23, 2013 and was buried with him at Rose Hills.
Madeline Brod was born in Pennsylvania on January 15, 1914. She married Max Maron in the early 1940s. Max was born in Chicago on June 16, 1915. He was known by his nickname, Sonny. They had 2 children. Sonny died in Los Angeles on September 29, 1970 and was buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
On January 14, 1979, Madeline remarried to Joseph Simon in Los Angeles. Joseph was born on June 11, 1913. He came to the marriage with adult children from a previous marriage of his own. Joseph died on January 23, 2004 and was buried at Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills, California.
Madeline died on March 26, 2010 and was buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Sonny.
Sandra Rita Brod was born in Los Angeles on April 13, 1937, the daughter of Leon William Brod and Rose Marie Singerman. She married a man who may still be living in 1959. They had 2 children. The marriage ended in divorce in the 1970s.
Sandra died on January 18, 2002.
Arnold Irwin Brod was born in Los Angeles on January 7, 1942, the son of Leon William Brod and Rose Marie Singerman.
He married a woman who may still be living in 1966. They had 2 children. The marriage ended in divorce in the 1970s. He remarried in 1980 to another woman who may still be living.
Arnold died on January 27, 2001.
| 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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