OBITUARY Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapels 114-03 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills, NY:
Ruth WEYL
NOVEMBER 6, 1908 – FEBRUARY 23, 2019
Ruth WEYL was born on November 6, 1908 and passed away on February 23, 2019.
Ruth Weyl Obituary - Ruth Weyl November 6, 1908 - February 23, 2019 (110 years old)
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It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Ruth Weyl (Forest Hills, New York), who passed away at the age of 110, on February 23, 2019. Family and friends can send flowers and/or light a candle as a loving gesture for their loved one. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Ruth Weyl to show support.
Ruth Weyl (née Markt; 6 November 1908 – 23 February 2019) was a German-born American supercentenarian of Jewish ancestry
Biography
Ruth Weyl was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Lower Silesia, Poland) on 6 November 1908.
Her parents were Heinrich Markt (born 1870) and Elsa Markt (née Bogen; born 1877).
She had at least one sister, Annemarie Holz.
In 1930, she married Heinrich (later Henry) Weyl, who was also from Breslau. When the Nazis forced them to close their business on June 26, 1937, Ruth and Heinrich decided to leave the country and immigrated to Kenya, then under British rule. They first stopped in London to visit relatives and then took a boat from Southampton to Mambasa and from there to Nairobi.
The couple sailed to New York, United States on board the Queen Elizabeth I, arriving in March 1948. They lived in Astoria for 30 years until Heinrich died in 1977. A short time later, Weyl moved to Forest Hills, where she continued to lived until her death on 23 February 2019 at the age of 110 years, 109 days.
OBITUARY Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapels 114-03 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills, NY:
Ruth WEYL
NOVEMBER 6, 1908 – FEBRUARY 23, 2019
Ruth WEYL was born on November 6, 1908 and passed away on February 23, 2019.
Ruth Weyl Obituary - Ruth Weyl November 6, 1908 - February 23, 2019 (110 years old)
Here is Ruth Weyl’s obituary. Please accept Everhere’s sincere condolences.
It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Ruth Weyl (Forest Hills, New York), who passed away at the age of 110, on February 23, 2019. Family and friends can send flowers and/or light a candle as a loving gesture for their loved one. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Ruth Weyl to show support.
Ruth Weyl (née Markt; 6 November 1908 – 23 February 2019) was a German-born American supercentenarian of Jewish ancestry
Biography
Ruth Weyl was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Lower Silesia, Poland) on 6 November 1908.
Her parents were Heinrich Markt (born 1870) and Elsa Markt (née Bogen; born 1877).
She had at least one sister, Annemarie Holz.
In 1930, she married Heinrich (later Henry) Weyl, who was also from Breslau. When the Nazis forced them to close their business on June 26, 1937, Ruth and Heinrich decided to leave the country and immigrated to Kenya, then under British rule. They first stopped in London to visit relatives and then took a boat from Southampton to Mambasa and from there to Nairobi.
The couple sailed to New York, United States on board the Queen Elizabeth I, arriving in March 1948. They lived in Astoria for 30 years until Heinrich died in 1977. A short time later, Weyl moved to Forest Hills, where she continued to lived until her death on 23 February 2019 at the age of 110 years, 109 days.
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