Tombstone Tuesday: Sonia Krakowsky, Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, NY

Last week I chronicled Abraham and Rose Krakowsky. After Rose died in 1960, and in 1961 Abraham married Sonia Bachman, a twice-married widow. They were married for about 16 years before Sonia passed away.

Here lies

Sarah daughter of Asher

SONIA

KRAKOWSKY

DIED MARCH 12, 1977

AGE 76 YEARS

BELOVED WIFE, 

MOTHER - GRANDMOTHER

Sarah Kuszner (likely pronounced Kushner) was born in Starokostyantyniv (a larger community located 32 km SSE of Labun) in about 1901 and immigrated to the United States on the S.S. Aquitania.[1] She landed in New York on 7 April 1922. While she was met by her brother Abraham who lived in the Bronx, she ultimately wound up in Boston.

In Boston on 7 December 1924, Sarah (now Sonia) married Morris Fertel.[2] Morris, born in Hrytsiv (a small community 8 miles SE of Labun) managed, and eventually owned, a grocery store.[3]  

Morris and Sonia Fertel had three children: Arthur (1925-2016), Alice and Arnold.

Morris Fertel died on 23 April 1938. His grave is in the Staro Konstantinov Cemetery, West Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. After his death, Sonia continued to run their grocery.[4]

Sonia married Harry Bachman in the Bronx on 24 February 1946. This information comes from her naturalization file and is confirmed by an indexed marriage license application dated 21 February 1946.[5] I have not yet acquired that document.

Sonia Bachman stayed in Boston and she and Harry ran the grocery.[6]

I have not determined what happened to Harry Bachman, but sometime in 1961, Sonia and Abe Krakowsky applied for a marriage license in the Bronx.[7]

Sonia's Social Security Death Index record indicates she was born 24 March 1901 and her last residence was in the Bronx.[8]

She is interred in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot, block 24, Maccabee Road, Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, New York.

Notes:
1. Manifest, S.S. Aquitania, 7April 1922, stamped p. C2, line 6, Sarah Kuszner, age 20; images, New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 August 2017).
2. Sonia Fertel naturalization file no. 235423 (July 1942), U.S. District Court of Massachusetts at Boston; images, "Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 August 2017); NARA Record Group 21, Records of the District Courts of the United States.
3. Morris Fertel, naturalization file no. 107634 (February 1929), U.S. District Court of Massachusetts at Boston; images, "Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 August 2017); NARA Record Group 21, Records of the District Courts of the United States.
   Manifest, S.S. Samland, 2 July 1921, p. 47, line 4, Mojshe Fertel, age 20; images, Pennsylvania Passenger Lists, 1800-1962," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 August 2017).
   1930 U.S. census, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Boston, enumeration district 13-395, sheet 13B, dwelling 19, family 73, Morris and Sonia Fertel family; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 August 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 951.
4. Sonia Fertel naturalization file no. 235423 (July 1942), U.S. District Court of Massachusetts at Boston.
   Morris Fertel, naturalization file no. 107634 (February 1929), U.S. District Court of Massachusetts at Boston.
   1940 U.S. census, Suffolk Co., MA, pop. sched., Boston, enumeration district 15-503, sheet 8A, household 178, Sonia Fertel family; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 August 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 1673.
5. Bronx County, New York, affidavit and license to marry, Harry Bachman and Sonia Fertel, application date 21 February 1946; "New York City, Marriage Indexes, 1907-1995," index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 August 2017); citing Municipal Archives, New York City.
6. "U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995," images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 August 2017); entry for Harry Bachman, Boston City Directory, 1952, p. 294.
7. Bronx County, New York, affidavit and license to marry, Abraham Krakowsky and Sonia Bachmanl, application date 1961; "New York City, Marriage Indexes, 1907-1995," index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 July 2017); citing Municipal Archives, New York City.
8. "U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014," index, Ancestry (http://www. ancestry.com : accessed 5 August 2017); entry for Sonia Krakowsky, SSN 061-52-8258, Mar 1977.