Given name:
Minnie Weiss
Minnie changed her first
name to
Shelly as an adult
Born:
February 25,
1914 at Memorial Hospital of Worcester, Massachusetts
basic 1914 birth information
Her biologic parents:
mother -- Mary
Leonard (Lehner) Weiss,
died
September 26, 1915 in Worcester, MA
father -- Harry B. Weiss,
died on March 2,
1954 in Beaumont, TX
Parents
married on November 10, 1912 in Boston, MA
residence: 37 Paine St., Worcester, MA
Childhood:
After the death of her
mother Mary Lehner (aka Leonard) on September 26, 1915 in Worcester, MA,
Minnie (19 months old) moved into the home of her grandparents, Solomon &
Leibe Hannah Weiss in New York and was living there in
1920 (census
copy) as a young
child. However, she
was next raised by Aunt Sadie (Sarah) Weiss Bergold and Frank J. Bergold with cousin Henry
Bergold at 134 Keap St., Brooklyn, NY
Marriage:
To Samuel L. Stecker
(b.March 3, 1907, d. March 18, 1965) in New
York, lived later in
Detroit, Michigan
Her children:
Stephen Leonard Stecker, M.D. (b.
5-24-1938 in Brooklyn, NY,
now lives in San Diego, CA)
Michael Alan Stecker, M.D. (b.
8-25-1943 in Brooklyn, NY,
now lives in Los
Angeles, CA)
Her grandchildren:
From Stephen and Alix
Colcombet Stecker: Tiffany, Mathieu,
Dylan Stecker
Died:
December 12, 1982 in Chula Vista, CA, buried at Hillside Memorial Park &
Mortuary, Los Angeles 90045