Rose (Stoloff) Haber was born April 18, 1909, sharing her birth month and day with her son, George, born 35 years later. She had four brothers and sisters: Louis, Solly, Fannie, Lillian,and Rachel who later married a Connecticut executive and changed her name to Shelley). Louis volunteered in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade that fought in the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s; he was killed at the age of 28 in the Battle of the Ebro outside Barcelona. Rose spent time in Chicago, courtesy of relatives, to study bookkeeping and office procedures and returned to New York to work part-time in various offices in New York City and Brooklyn as a bookkeeper and office manager. She married Harry in 1941 and they moved from the lower East Side (229 East 4th St.) to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, where they raised their son, George, born in 1944. With her background in office and administrative work, she served as the unofficial "spokesperson" for her brothers and sisters, and some of their children, often handling paperwork for them and helping type and edit assignments the nephews and nieces wrote for school (including college!)In her youth, Rose was very athletic, and enjoyed tennis and horseback riding.
Rose (Stoloff) Haber was born April 18, 1909, sharing her birth month and day with her son, George, born 35 years later. She had four brothers and sisters: Louis, Solly, Fannie, Lillian,and Rachel who later married a Connecticut executive and changed her name to Shelley). Louis volunteered in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade that fought in the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s; he was killed at the age of 28 in the Battle of the Ebro outside Barcelona. Rose spent time in Chicago, courtesy of relatives, to study bookkeeping and office procedures and returned to New York to work part-time in various offices in New York City and Brooklyn as a bookkeeper and office manager. She married Harry in 1941 and they moved from the lower East Side (229 East 4th St.) to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, where they raised their son, George, born in 1944. With her background in office and administrative work, she served as the unofficial "spokesperson" for her brothers and sisters, and some of their children, often handling paperwork for them and helping type and edit assignments the nephews and nieces wrote for school (including college!)In her youth, Rose was very athletic, and enjoyed tennis and horseback riding.
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