Friederike "Fritzie" was born in Vienna, Austria. She was the youngest of two daughters. Her older sister was Gertrud Rubinstein. Her father Leo died when she was 9 years old and her mother then went to work running a small store in the factory section of Vienna.
At age 17, she and her sister Gertrud immigrated to the United States. Because the U.S. had a quota system, they were able to leave Austria before their mother. Their Uncle Samuel Mintz set them up in an apartment in NYC and gave them grocery money for a week to get them started.
Fritzie's occupation on the ship manifest was given as typist. But her first job was in a candy factory. She told me that one of the perks of her job is that she could eat all the chocolate that she wanted - but she said after that job it was 10 years before she could look at chocolate again!
She met her future husband, Bob, in the Kings Wheelers Bicycling Club in Brooklyn, NYC. They were married on 4 Jul 1942. They were both working at that time and it is when they could both get off from work. Her husband Bob also said that way he could remember the date of their anniversary!
Later when her children were young, she typed addresses on envelopes as a part-time job. She then became a secretary for the District 13 public school system in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. and continued that career until she retired. To get the secretary position, she had to know shorthand. She had learned German shorthand in Austria, and it was her husband that suggested that she adapt it to English since shorthand is fundamentally phonetic. She was able to do so, but it confused one of her principals who could read English shorthand but not her modified version!
They retired upstate New York where they became active in local square dancing clubs and church activities. They even toured Europe participating in square dance demonstrations. They had 37 acres of land with a trout stream as the back border. They also had two German shepherds, Princess I and after that dog's death, a second shepherd Princess II. After Bob died, Fritzie got a yellow lab Sandy which survived Fritzie's death. (See Find A Grave Memorial# 144979974)
Fritzie and Bob were buried in Van Etten, NY.
At age 17, she and her sister Gertrud immigrated to the United States. Because the U.S. had a quota system, they were able to leave Austria before their mother. Their Uncle Samuel Mintz set them up in an apartment in NYC and gave them grocery money for a week to get them started.
Fritzie's occupation on the ship manifest was given as typist. But her first job was in a candy factory. She told me that one of the perks of her job is that she could eat all the chocolate that she wanted - but she said after that job it was 10 years before she could look at chocolate again!
She met her future husband, Bob, in the Kings Wheelers Bicycling Club in Brooklyn, NYC. They were married on 4 Jul 1942. They were both working at that time and it is when they could both get off from work. Her husband Bob also said that way he could remember the date of their anniversary!
Later when her children were young, she typed addresses on envelopes as a part-time job. She then became a secretary for the District 13 public school system in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. and continued that career until she retired. To get the secretary position, she had to know shorthand. She had learned German shorthand in Austria, and it was her husband that suggested that she adapt it to English since shorthand is fundamentally phonetic. She was able to do so, but it confused one of her principals who could read English shorthand but not her modified version!
They retired upstate New York where they became active in local square dancing clubs and church activities. They even toured Europe participating in square dance demonstrations. They had 37 acres of land with a trout stream as the back border. They also had two German shepherds, Princess I and after that dog's death, a second shepherd Princess II. After Bob died, Fritzie got a yellow lab Sandy which survived Fritzie's death. (See Find A Grave Memorial# 144979974)
Fritzie and Bob were buried in Van Etten, NY.
Friederike "Fritzie" was born in Vienna, Austria. She was the youngest of two daughters. Her older sister was Gertrud Rubinstein. Her father Leo died when she was 9 years old and her mother then went to work running a small store in the factory section of Vienna.
At age 17, she and her sister Gertrud immigrated to the United States. Because the U.S. had a quota system, they were able to leave Austria before their mother. Their Uncle Samuel Mintz set them up in an apartment in NYC and gave them grocery money for a week to get them started.
Fritzie's occupation on the ship manifest was given as typist. But her first job was in a candy factory. She told me that one of the perks of her job is that she could eat all the chocolate that she wanted - but she said after that job it was 10 years before she could look at chocolate again!
She met her future husband, Bob, in the Kings Wheelers Bicycling Club in Brooklyn, NYC. They were married on 4 Jul 1942. They were both working at that time and it is when they could both get off from work. Her husband Bob also said that way he could remember the date of their anniversary!
Later when her children were young, she typed addresses on envelopes as a part-time job. She then became a secretary for the District 13 public school system in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. and continued that career until she retired. To get the secretary position, she had to know shorthand. She had learned German shorthand in Austria, and it was her husband that suggested that she adapt it to English since shorthand is fundamentally phonetic. She was able to do so, but it confused one of her principals who could read English shorthand but not her modified version!
They retired upstate New York where they became active in local square dancing clubs and church activities. They even toured Europe participating in square dance demonstrations. They had 37 acres of land with a trout stream as the back border. They also had two German shepherds, Princess I and after that dog's death, a second shepherd Princess II. After Bob died, Fritzie got a yellow lab Sandy which survived Fritzie's death. (See Find A Grave Memorial# 144979974)
Fritzie and Bob were buried in Van Etten, NY.
At age 17, she and her sister Gertrud immigrated to the United States. Because the U.S. had a quota system, they were able to leave Austria before their mother. Their Uncle Samuel Mintz set them up in an apartment in NYC and gave them grocery money for a week to get them started.
Fritzie's occupation on the ship manifest was given as typist. But her first job was in a candy factory. She told me that one of the perks of her job is that she could eat all the chocolate that she wanted - but she said after that job it was 10 years before she could look at chocolate again!
She met her future husband, Bob, in the Kings Wheelers Bicycling Club in Brooklyn, NYC. They were married on 4 Jul 1942. They were both working at that time and it is when they could both get off from work. Her husband Bob also said that way he could remember the date of their anniversary!
Later when her children were young, she typed addresses on envelopes as a part-time job. She then became a secretary for the District 13 public school system in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. and continued that career until she retired. To get the secretary position, she had to know shorthand. She had learned German shorthand in Austria, and it was her husband that suggested that she adapt it to English since shorthand is fundamentally phonetic. She was able to do so, but it confused one of her principals who could read English shorthand but not her modified version!
They retired upstate New York where they became active in local square dancing clubs and church activities. They even toured Europe participating in square dance demonstrations. They had 37 acres of land with a trout stream as the back border. They also had two German shepherds, Princess I and after that dog's death, a second shepherd Princess II. After Bob died, Fritzie got a yellow lab Sandy which survived Fritzie's death. (See Find A Grave Memorial# 144979974)
Fritzie and Bob were buried in Van Etten, NY.
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- Find a Grave Lyons or Rubinstein
