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- Our Aunt Ruth, Ronnie’s mom, was never clear about her actual date of birth. There seems to be a familyhistory associated with this. When Ronnie (Kurzeja) sent me Grandpa Arnold’s naturalization papers, they showed that the family birth records were not accurate. When I asked Ronnie about the dates he wrote: “Berel (Benjamin) was born in 1909 not in 1910, Feiga (Edith) was born in 1911, not in 1912. Rifka (Ruth) was born (claimed 1916) and Fishel (Floyd) was born in 1916, not 1917. ………Edith told everyone she was born in 1916. Based upon the hearing before the Social Security Administration to establish Ruth’s correct date of birth, they relied on the earliest available record then known which was Arnold’s Certificate of Naturalization to establish her birth year as 1916. One could then infer from the illogical logic that Floyd, Edith and Ruth were triplets having all been born in late 1916. You asked what to write for Ruth’s date of birth? Since birth records have little or no value to the Marchewka clan, please enter Ruth’s birthday as Jan 1, 1904. This way we can say that she lived to age 100.”
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1915 - 2004 (88 years)
