Tombstone Tuesday: Ruth Garber and George Levine

LEVINE

RUTH

BELOVED WIFE & SISTER

AUG. 17, 1915

NOV. 13, 1996

GEORGE

BELOVED HUSBAND

MAR. 17, 1898

AUG. 23, 1987

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Ruth Garber Levine was the first child of Max and Mary Garber. She was born in New York, New York.[1] [2]

Ruth graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn and then attended the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance at New York University (class of 1935) where she obtained a B.S. in marketing.[3] Today that school is known as the Stern School of Business.

Sometime after 1 April 1940, when Ruth is was enumerated as single and living with the Max and Mary Garber family in the 1940 U.S. Census, she married George Levine.[4] Ruth and George had no children.

Late in life, Ruth and George moved to Florida where they resided until death. The Levines are buried at Menorah Gardens and Funeral Chapels in Southwest Ranches, Florida. [5]

Notes:

1.  1930 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, Enumeration District (ED) 24-1303, sheet 1B, dwelling 17, family 20, Ruth Garber; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 March 2008), citing National Archives microfilm publication T626, roll 1497, Family History Library microfilm 2,341,232.

2. 1940 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, Enumeration District (ED) 24-1836, sheet 4A, household 57, Ruth Garber; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 April 2012), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 2594.

3. School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, New York University, The Violet (New York University: New York 1935), 65; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 September 2012).
4. 1940 U.S. Census, Kings Co., NY, pop. sch., Brooklyn, ED 24-1836, sheet 4A, household 57, Ruth Garber.
5. Special thanks to Menorah Gardens and Funeral Chapels for providing the photograph (17 January 2014).