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    Once again we have seen another year pass and these pages will reflect the history of our families during this time. I can only report what is sent to me, so please don't be upset if your story is not here. For stories of general interest, please visit the page for 2004.

       
            Kevin & Mollie and big sister Dylan are awaiting April 2005.
                Geoff & Amy Genser and big brother Milo are awaiting March 2005.

       
            Tamar, daughter of Jonathan & Efrat Balcombe.
                Romi, daughter of Uri & Shirit Keynan
                    Dara, daughter of  Jolee Rosenau & Seth Klugherz
                        Noah, son of Randi Rosenau & Murray Goldberg
                            Leia, daughter of Jonathan Berkowitz.
                                Brett, son of Mark & Stacy Loeb.
                                    Maya Keeley, daughter of Jeffrey & Tricia Gerenraich.

Raz Chen, son of Anat Mann & Eli Chen.

    First cousins Kayla Rimmon and Gabriel Rimmon celebrated their bat/bar mitzvah one week apart. For a pictorial review click on Kayla's Bat Mitzvah page and Gabriel's Bar Mitzvah page.
    Noah Marcel Koch, January 2005

    Josh Kahn has graduated from University of Washington and has moved to Los Angeles where he is working in public relations.
    Jessica Klein graduated from the University of Delaware and all her siblings were there to help celebrate.
    Aaron Schwanke graduated with High Honors from the University of Texas with a degree in Elementary Education.  After a Fall/Winter working vacation in the UK, he will (hopefully) join the ranks of the employed.
    Elana Brownstein is back from a year in Israel and will start at University of Maryland.
    Jennifer Levinson, following the completion of her nursing degree, is the Head Nurse for Pediatrics and the Pediatric ICU at North Monroe Medical Center. It is an HCA hospital. hey intend to send her to Duke University in August, 2005, to get her Pediatric Nurse Practioner, Acute and Critical Care Certification.
    Kaela Kahn went to Israel this summer with her school class
   Toby Kahn went with a youth group for a short visit also. Toby is a student at Whitman college in Walla Walla, Washington.
    Andrew Genser has graduated the University of Michigan and is now working in LA as a screenwriter.
    Ari Brownstein is continuing in Boston at Northeastern, and hoping to cover expenses while working at Legal Seafood.
   Stephen Rothschild, Sr. became First Vice_President (president-elect) of the Million Dollar Round Table, "The Premier Association of Financial Professionals." There are over 29,000 members in over 74 countries and territories.
   Emily Bettman Mayer has produced another play by her husband Jerry Mayer. "2 Across", currently playing at the Santa Monica Playhouse has been extended till February 27.. And from April 13 to June 19, 2005 will be at the the New Theater Restaurant in Overland Park, Kansas, starring Bonnie Franklin and Bruce Weitz.
    Jeff Marx is now attending Georgia Tech full-time, getting his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering.
    Emily Marx has graduated Cornell and relocated to New York City, where she is working at The Late Show with David Letterman.
    Congrats to Robert Rosenau on becoming a great-grandfather two times over. (see above).
    Nancy Rose is decorating Gourds with wood burning and paints.  Its fun and not always so easy. "I have to give them away as I  don't have room for them all.  Anyone else involved with gourds?  Also I will be taking a rug braiding class soon."
    "First-time-great-grandfather Tommy Godchaux and first-time-grandmother Beryl Godchaux Dandridge are celebrating the birth of Leia Berkowitz named above.
    Babette Strousse Smith continues as Director of Finance and Control for Nokia Design- based out of Calabasas, Calif.
    Her husband Martin Smith has designed and manufactured an award winning product for cleaning artist's paint brushes which is featured on the website http://www.artistbrushmate.com/ He was just recently awarded a silver metal by the Industrial Designer's Society and Businessweek Magazine for his design of the brush cleaning unit. He also has a website http://www.socalook.com/ featuring the VW hotrods that he has been building. Marty's cars have been featured in several international VW and hot rod magazines in the past few months. He continues as Chair of the Product Design Program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
    Their sons: Noah Martin Smith has graduated from Hamilton High School Music Academy and is attending Otis College of Art and Design in LA. Watch for him in his first feature role in "The Little Black Book" which was filmed in 2003.
   And Matthew Smith continues studying mechanical engineering at RIT- but is currently in the 2nd semester of a 2 semester internship with MetalCrafters- a custom automotive prototyping group in Fountain Valley, CA.
    Patrick Freeling and his family are now living up in Northern California, where Pat is a California State park ranger again.
   Samuel Sandmel's *A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament* has been republished by Skylight Paths, with a new introduction by his son, Rabbi David Sandmel.
    Jodi Bach, graduated in December from St. Cloud State University and competed in the NCAA Tennis Regionals in Topeka, KS.
    Brian Netter will be graduating June 2005 from UCLA with a degree in applied mathematics and has already had a job offer in the S. F. bay area.
    If you want to read all about Alexander Sherr go to his website http://www.mnasherr.com/pages/2/index.htm . It is really quite interesting.

        Andrew Brown and Shannon Rutherford, August 2004
        Gal Chen and Nili Schlachet, 2004
        Julie Nachman and Clay Gilchrist, May 2004
        Wendy Brashear and Jeremy Diggins, October 2004

                                                                            1924 - 1934

~~ Nancy Mann Rosen ~~ Susan Silberstein Beneman ~~ Joan Glanz Rimmon  ~~ Shirley Honkofsky Simon ~~
~~ Doris Katz Kantor ~~ Emily Bettman Mayer ~~ Elsa Shiman New ~~Lynn Benoliel Lane ~~ Richard E. Goldsmith ~~ ~~Gerhard Wolff ~~ Jack Rephan ~~ Adina Stampf Katz ~~ Marvin H Schwartz, Sr. ~~ Norma Kohen Friedman ~~
~~ Mark Elias ~~ Wilma Katz Taylor ~~ Marylou Goldhardt Martuscelli ~~ Alice Weinberg Herrmann ~~
~~ Peter Andre Benoliel  ~~ Donald Ralph Simon ~~ Roger Walter Langsdorf ~~ Susan Rosenstock Nolan ~~
~~ Janet  Rosenstock Greenwald ~~ Jerome Mayer ~~ Barbara Keller Kent  ~~ Lilian Lewis Shiman ~~
~~ Ann Wallach Ries ~~ Amelia Katz Welsh ~~ Paul Shiman ~~ Barbara Ferguson Fox ~~ Stephen Kent ~~
~~ Constance Kaufmann Langsdorf ~~Ella Lirmann Ben-David ~~ Irene Bettman Zivi ~~ Maize Shalom Amir ~~
~~ Fred Friedman ~~ Richard Brownstein ~~ Edwin H. Mann, Jr. ~~ Audrey Perry Freed ~~ Albert Katzenstein ~~
~~ Howard Greenebaum ~~ Emanuel Carey Ries ~~ Barbara Levistein Horvitz ~~ Lee Katz Greenwald, Sr. ~~
~~ Chayuta Eisenberg Ben-David ~~ Norris Kantor ~~ Sally Weisburger Buckley ~~ Robert Ellis New ~~
~~ Joseph B. Kohen ~~ Amos Katz ~~ Betty Jean Katzenstein Van Os ~~ Irvonne  Tenenbaum Kane ~~
 ~~ Robert James Welsh ~~ Sydonia Stern Buxbaum ~~ Marjorie Weinberg Ottenheimer ~~ Margery Netter Patterson ~~ ~~ John Langsdorf ~~ Mary Anne Epstein Saltzstein ~~ Lois Saunders Worth ~~ Alfred Gross ~~ Bennard B. Perlman ~~ ~~ Lois Wallach Hess ~~ Gisela Eckstein Zamora ~~ Karl Stern ~~ Mordechai Ben-David ~~Joan Nusbaum Cone ~~
~~ Terry Stern Katzmann ~~ Constance Allenberg Katzenstein ~~ Donald Julian Zadeck ~~ Judith Katz Horesh ~~
~~ Henrietta Alexander Neuburger ~~ Carolyn Wertheimer Michlosky ~~ Frances Katzenstein Zadeck ~~
~~ Marki Rutherford Lowenstern ~~ Herman Van Os ~~ Marion FlorsheimB~~ Ellen C Greenebaum ~~
~~ Mimi Sue Back Loeb ~~ Arthur Lyon Herrmann ~~ Theodore Lutzky ~~ Barbara Rothschild Kahn ~~
~~ Werner Neuburger ~~ Elisabeth Moller Wurzburger ~~ Marilyn Holstein Lutzky ~~ Shimon Horesh ~~
~~ Hannelore Militzer Noe ~~ Naomi Rabinowitz Wurzburger ~~ Jim Horvitz ~~ Esther Freed Simon ~~
~~ Irving Simon ~~ Beate Deutscher Mann ~~ Henry Lowenstern ~~Stanford Z. Rothschild
~~ Ann Weisburger Lebherz ~~ Benton Perry ~~Samuel Zivi ~~Lewis Hess, Jr. ~~ Ezra Amir ~~
~~ Elinor Rosenblatt Thaviu ~~ Karola Stern ~~ Ellen Viner Seiler ~~  Hannah Gedalov Bar-Tuvia

1916 - 1923
 ~~ Sidney Davidow ~~ Marie Marx ~~ Elise Cohen Rubiner ~~ E. Richard Friedman ~~
~~ Ellen Langsdorf ~~ Pat Martuscelli ~~ Martyl S. Langsdorf  ~~ Betty Langsdorf ~~ Margaret Rose
~~ Bob Lebherz ~~ Herbert Marx ~~ Manny Marx ~~ Friedel Marx  ~~
~~ Florette Katz Weitzman ~~ Charles E. Fox Jr. ~~  Helen Eisman Rothschild ~~
~~ Robert Rosenau ~~ Lisa Freudenthal Oppenheimer ~~ Eva A. Florsheim ~~
~~ NancyNell Rose Robinson ~~ Harry Bachenheimer ~~ Tom Godchaux ~~
~~ Pearl Katz Blumenthal ~~ Judy Marx Marx ~~ Elinor Collinson Langsdorf ~~
~~ Betty Granat Langsdorf ~~ Lothar Brown ~~ Eugene Weinstein ~~
~~ Manny Burger ~~ Naomi May Palmbaum ~~ Arthur Cone Jr. ~~
~~ Robert   Rothschild ~~  Molly Luna Rothschild ~~
~~ Ruth Muller ~~ Ze'ev Muller ~~ Rebecca Muller ~~
~~ Ruth B. Friedman ~~ Richard Friedman ~~ Lois Friedman Davidow
~~ Fred Wurzburger ~~ Hannah Rothschild Zurndorfer ~~
            ~~ Herbert Reinheimer  ~~ Dorothy Reinheimer ~~ Ruth Reinheimer Rothschild ~~
            ~~ Barbara A. Nusbaum ~~ Charles Michlosky ~~ Ernest Dean ~~ George Avis ~~           
            ~~ Harry Blumberg ~~ Ruth W. Blumberg ~~ Selma Blumberg Rosenberg ~~
            ~~ Frances Shachtel Morgenstern ~~ Walburga von Raffler Engel ~~ Irving Stern ~~
            ~~ Helene Strousee Ross ~~ Ira Ross ~~  Jacques Strousse ~~ Harry Katzmann ~~
            ~~ Lee Rosenblatt ~~ Elise Cohen Rubiner ~~
            ~~ Sarah Wahlhaus Yaron ~~ Pinkus Yaron ~~  Sam Rimmon ~~

1910 - 1915
~~Ruth Rothschild Bettman ~~
Victoria Rothschild Hirshey ~~ Rose Weiss Honkofsky ~~
~~ Marga Stahl Brauner ~~ Miranda Levy ~~
 ~~ Frances Langsdorf Greenebaum ~~
~~ Walter Lowen ~~ Sydney "Jim" Rothschild ~~
~~ Margaret Weil Simon Rose ~~

    Bob Welsh, Irvonne Kane, Nancy Nell Rose Robinson, Irving Simon, Sam Rimmon

•     Wendy Welsh Grosvenor, beloved wife of Harley, adored mother of Robert and Kara, dearest daughter of Bob and Millie Katz Welsh and sister of Jeff and Robert Welsh Jr. After a long battle with MS, Wendy is now at peace. A memorial service was held in December when her brother Jeff was visiting from Australia. April 2004.

•     Shimon Horesh, beloved husband of Judith Katz Horesh, dearest father of Orli, Yael & Naomi. Shimon was killed in a car accident.

•     Jean (Saltzstein) Herman, a pioneering Milwaukee community activist and mother of former Maine First Lady Mary Herman, died peacefully in her Topsham, Maine, home. She was 86. Born in Milwaukee in 1918 she was the daughter of Benjamin F. and Edna (Doctor) Saltzstein. Mrs. Herman moved from Milwaukee to Maine in 1998. She also had a home in Sarasota, Florida.
      Mrs. Herman had a particular interest in promoting child welfare and racial harmony. She was a board member of many community organizations, including Child Care Centers, Inc., of Milwaukee, an early Milwaukee day care services organization (of which she is the only emeritus board member); Lad Lake, a children's foster home; Neighborhood House, a Milwaukee settlement house, and Camp Sidney Cohen, a summer camp for inner city children. During the Second World War, she worked for the Travelers' Aid Society and the USO.
      "She was a common sense visionary," said her son John. "Decades before 'two career couples' were commonplace, she understood that mothers, particularly single mothers, could work only if affordable child care were available. Her belief that a working mother could also be a good mother was revolutionary to some. Long silenced are many skeptics Jean Herman converted to believers".
      "She raised three kids and ran a large house. But she had an important life outside our home," said her son Tom. "She had a career when no one defined it as a career,"
  Mrs. Herman was a fearless supporter of Planned Parenthood, often a presence outside targeted counseling centers well into her '70's to insure those seeking counseling could safely get in. She was also a founder of the Milwaukee Forum, an organization that brought young leaders of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds together to discuss how the increasingly racially diverse Milwaukee community could better work in concert. She was active for many years in organizing the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee and the Water Tower Trust, a Milwaukee historic preservation organization. After moving to Maine, she was active in the campaigns of her son-in-law, former Governor Angus S. King.
      "I remember as a young child walking door-to-door with her, collecting for the Red Cross," recalled her daughter Mary. "She taught me the value and joy of putting your energy back into the community."
      Mrs. Herman's family roots in Milwaukee go back to its early days. Her grandfather, Samuel Birkenwald immigrated to Milwaukee from Germany in the early 1850's and founded S. Birkenwald and Co., a butcher and imported food shop at what is now 6th Street and Wisconsin Avenue in 1857. Her father, Benjamin Saltzstein, was a lawyer and former treasurer of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
      In addition to her daughter, Mary of Brunswick, Maine, Mrs. Herman is survived by her sons, Thomas and John, both of Boston, and eight grandchildren. She was the wife of the late David A. Herman, also of Milwaukee, a founding partner of the public relations firm Barkin, Herman, Solochek, Paulsen.

•     Gloria, beloved wife of John Newburger for 47 years, they were school sweethearts. Dearest mother of Phyllis (Jeffrey) Blank, Iris (Mark) Edelman, and Bruce (Lisa). Adored grandmother of Hilary & Jordan Blank, David, Jacob & Rachel Edelman, and Serena & Ethan Newburger. August 2004

•     Albert Ashkenazy, of Carlsbad, CA, beloved husband of Kitty, brother of Ernst (Barbara) Dean and Beate Mann, uncle of many nieces and nephews, November 2004. He was 84.

•     Henry F. Marx, born in Little Rock, a son of the late Sydney and Louise Frank Marx, he was reared and received his early education in Pine Bluff. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he was a member of the ZBT fraternity. After graduation he returned to Pine Bluff and joined his family retail clothing business, Henry Marx Company, operating the business his grandfather established in 1895, with his mother and brother. He was an accomplished professional photographer and had several of his works printed in national publications.  He was active for many years in the Pine Bluff Camera Club and chronicled local events through the lens of his camera.  A member of Temple Anshe Emeth, the Retired Officers Assn., and the Pine Bluff Jazz Club, he also served in the US Army Reserve Field Artillery.
      Henry married Susan Nemzoff, who predeceased him in 1987. His survivors include two sons, Scott of Pine Bluff and Andrew of Little Rock, and one brother, Bo, of Pine Bluff.   November 2004.

•     Margot Bernstein Kohen, adored wife of Joseph for 47 years, beloved mother of Douglas (Mary) and  Susan (James) Decker and four grandchildren, Evan & Andrea Kohen and James & Kyle Decker. Dear sister of Don Bernstein,  sister-in-law of Steven (Barbara) Kent and  Norma Kohen (Fred) Friedman, and five nieces and their families. November 2004.

•     Ellis Setton was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1933. The second son of Chaim Setton and Grazia Savdie he was schooled in English by Irish Missionary Priests. His was a large Sephardi family, many of whom came from Syria. Both is maternal and paternal grandfathers were born in Manchester.
      His parents were born in Egypt. Ellis matriculated at the Lincoln School of the American University in Cairo and before the age of seventeen, decided life in Egypt was becoming too difficult. There was very strong anti foreign feeling and Ellis experienced racism on several occasions in his teens. The family lived close to the Royal Palace and by 1956 were ousted together with all other foreigners.
      Ellis, travelling on a British Passport like the rest of his family (his uncles had fought with the Royal Airforce in W W 11 ) decided, in his youthful wisdom, to leave Egypt in 1951 , leaving behind his mother and younger brother, Albert (Bertie). Ellis wanted to go to an English speaking country. England was on its knees after WW II. Canada was too cold after the heat of Egypt. The United States had a waiting list a mile long. When the opportunity to go to Australia was offered to him, he traveled on a P and O ship alone and not quite eighteen years old. His mother's brother Felix Savdie had settled in Sydney two years before with his wife and children, Elliott and Millie. Ellis began work with a large Insurance Company and was determined to get a University degree. He went to Sydney University and graduated Bachelor of Economics, at night, over six years.
      His mother Grazia and brother Albert joined him in Sydney in the late fifties and tried to settle in Australia. Grazia worked in a department store and Albert went to high school. Life was very difficult for his mother and she left to join the rest of her family who had migrated to France. Albert stayed and finished his schooling in Sydney. Ellis began a new career in Market Research - then a very young industry - and worked his way to Managing Director of the company in a very short time.
      He had met and married Barbara Moss and soon after, the company (Unilever) relocated them to England and then Brazil for two years where Nicole was born. The company recalled him and his family to Sydney and two years later Gabriella was born. The family settled in Roseville and became very involved with with foundation and early growth of Masade College. Ellis was on the Masada board for many years. He was also on the board of The North Shore Synagogue and served on committees of the JCA. He was a very active Rotarian. He became a partner in a company importing packaging machinery after leaving Unilever where he had served for eighteen years.
      He loved a game of poker and played regularly with a group of friends from Egypt and also enjoyed playing Bridge. He played a regular and high standard of tennis and was talented at Fencing. Barbara died tragically in 1982.
      Ellis met Eva in 1983. They enjoyed twenty one happy years together. Their five children NICOLE and John , Joshua and Sacha: GABRIELLA and Brad, Chloe and Kaiya: SHARON and Mike and Alon: GARY and Trisha and Esther: DAVID and Helen and Jacob and Rosie, together enjoyed many happy family gatherings in various States in Australia and overseas.
      Ellis, always an avid music lover, took up playing the recorder in his fifties. He was involved in Early Music and Recorder Societies and established a small business importing recorders made on a Kibbutz in Israel. He was very involved with The Friends of The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and was their State as well as Federal Treasurer for many years. He loved to attend concerts, theatre and opera but most of all, he loved being with his family and friends.
      He was Regional Officer of the HSJE and a regular contributor to the worldwide network EGYJEWS where he wrote and received email, sometimes three or four times a day. He was very interested in genealogy and built a large and comprehensive family tree. His many relatives in Sydney, Melbourne, France, South America, England, Switzerland, Israel and the USA together with his close family unit will miss him terribly. ELLIS: A man of passion. A man of principle. A man of honor. Rest well, dear man.

•     Martha Marbo Cohrssen, widow of the late Hans Cohrssen, in Frankfurt. She leaves her dear children, a daughter, Aya and a son Andreas, step-children Barbara Cohrssen Powell, John Cohrssen, grandchildren Simon Wionski and Maya Cohrssen-Hernandez

May Hashem comfort all of the bereaved.

Thank you to all the contributing editors for their letters and articles.

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