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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Samuel DAMESEK: Birth: 15 SEP 1902 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Death: 18 DEC 1990 in White Plains, Westchester, NY

  2. Abraham DAMESEK: Birth: 25 MAY 1904 in Bronx, Bronx, NY. Death: 27 NOV 1979 in Schenectady, Schenectady, NY

  3. Meyer DAMESEK: Birth: 14 JAN 1910 in Bronx, Bronx, NY. Death: 22 MAY 1965

  4. Alex DAMESEK: Birth: 11 OCT 1914 in Bronx, Bronx, NY. Death: 22 JAN 2006 in Deerfield Beach, Broward, FL


Sources
1. Title:   City of New York Department of Health, Certificate of Death for Becky Damesek (12 feb 1938)
2. Title:   National Archives, 1910 Census for da Bronx (21 May 1910)
3. Title:   1920 Census of Bronx, Bonx, NY. Natioonal Archives. 8 Jan 1920.
Page:   3
4. Title:   Max Damesek, 1930 US, Bronx, Bronx, NY, ED 25, sheet 12b, 14 Apr 1930; National Archives Roll 1475.
Page:   12b
5. Title:   Alex Damesek, Letter From Alex Damesek (26 Feb 1997)
6. Title:   Phyllis Ravenette, Family history letters from Phyllis Ravenett (3 and 19 Feb 1997)

Notes
a. Note:   She was born: 1875 (35 in 1910) according to that census.
 1876 (39 in 1915) according to that census.
 1878 (42 in 1920) according to that census.
 1878 (52 in 1930) according to that census.
 1878 (60 in 1938) according to her DC.
  Old Lithuanian records typically spell the name Sora Rivka.
  My grandfather told me his mother was Rebecca RIEMER born in Vilna, Russia. That city is now known as Vilnius, Lithuania. My grandmother adds that hthat is the birthplace of violist Jascha Heifetz. According to Neal RIEMER (58), however, this was her adopted American name. Her real name was Sura Rifka RIEMER. Sura Rifka is Hebrew for Sarah Rebecca. Cousin Phyllis says that she was named after Peshka RIEMER.
b. Note:   atic carcinoma of liver.
Note:   At the age of 60, Becky DAMESEK died of Carcinoma of Stomach and Melast
c. Note:   1910 census: Married 8 years (1902) 1920 census: Does not ask years of marriage
 1930 census: Married 22 years (1908) Must be wrong.


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