Tombstone Tuesday: Sylvia Reitman, Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, New York

Here lies

Ziesel daughter of Chaim Ephraim

Died 29 Shevat 5704

May her soul be bound in the bonds of the living

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SYLVIA

REITMAN

DIED FEB. 23, 1944

AGE 38 YEARS

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BELOVED WIFE

AND MOTHER

Sylvia Reitman's association with the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association landsmanshaft burial plot is via her husband Samuel Reitman, a native of Labun (Lubin in Yiddish), Volhynia Gubernia, Russian Empire (Ukraine). 

Sylvia was born Zyzia Mutterperl to Chaim (Hyman) Munia Mutterperl and Chasia (Anna) Teller.[1] Her father's naturalization record reports Sylvia was born 22 August 1906 and was their third child.[2] Her siblings were Samuel, Bertha and Norman. 

She immigrated with her parents and brother Nachman (Norman) to New York City on 2 July 1922 aboard the S.S. Zeeland. Her sister Brucha (Bertha) Mutterperl Lerman was left behind in their town of Lyubar, Volhynia Gubernia. But, by the time Hyman became a citizen in 1929, both Bertha and his eldest child Samuel were also in the United States.

Sylvia married glazier Samuel Reitman, son of Morris and Dora Reitman and brother of Julius, Lillie, Louis, Anna and Fannie, on 14 April 1929 in Manhattan.[1] They were married by fellow Lubiner Rabbi Yoer Lerner. Another Lubiner (and glazier) Jacob Alperin signed their marriage certificate as a witness.

Labun, Samuel's hometown in the old country, was about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) WNW of Sylvia's.

After their marriage, the couple settled in Manhattan on 21 East 2nd Street.[3] Their daughter Belle Claire Reitman was born on 28 September 1930.[4] Her married name was Abel and she died in California on 16 June 1997.[5]

In 1940, Samuel, Sylvia and Belle lived at 1 Pike Street, New York, New York.[6]

Sylvia died young - at about 39. Her death certificate does not state the cause of death, but she was in Gouvernuer Hospital, a municipal hospital at 621 Water Street, New York, New York, for 13 days before she passed away.[7]

Samuel Reitman is not buried in any of the three First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plots at Montefiore and Beth Moses Cemeteries. I have not located any records indicating that he'd married again. There is a possibility he died in Florida.

Sylvia Mutterperl Reitman is buried in Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, New York, block 89, gate 156W, line 7L, grave 1. 

Notes:
1. New York County, New York, marriage certificate no. 8266 (1929), Samuel Reitman and Sylvia Mutterperl, 14 April 1929; Municipal Archives, New York City.
    Manifest, S.S. Zeeland, 2 July 1922, list 7, line 16, Zysia Miterperl (age 21); images, "New york, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 October 2016); citing NARA microfilm publication T715, roll 3134.
2. Hyman Mutterperl, naturalization file 125639 (18 March 1929), Southern District Court of New York; images, "Selected U.S. Naturalization Records - Original Documents, 1790-1974," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 October 2016).
3. 1930 U.S. census, New York County, New York, population schedule, Manhattan, enumeration district 31-121, sheet 13A, Samuel and Sylvia Reitman family; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 October 2016); NARA Microfilm publication T626, roll 1547.
4. Samuel Reitman, petition for naturalization, file no. 186513 (30 October 1931), Southern District Court of New York; images, images, "Selected U.S. Naturalization Records - Original Documents, 1790-1974," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 December 2010).
5. "California, Death Index, 1940-1997," index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 October 2016), entry for Belleclaire Abel, died 16 June 1997; citing California Department of Health Services.
6. 1940 U.S. census, New York County, New York, population schedule, Manhattan, enumeration district 31-204, sheet 63B, household 402, Samuel and Sylvia Reitman family; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 October 2016); NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2629.
7. New York County, New York, death certificate no. 4866 (1944), Sylvia Reitman, 23 February 1944; Municipal Archives, New York City.