Temple Emanuel Cemetery
Hidalgo Co. Cemeteries of Tx
Submitted by Frances Isbell
With Permission of Hidalgo Co. Historical Commission (2005)
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LOCATION;
South Ware Road at McAllen city limits.
SURVEYED:
From 1997 Cemetery List
published in 50th Anniversary Celebration booklet, McAllen, Texas,
1998. For full date, see Texas
Jewish Burials by Gertrude M. and Donald L. Teter, Texas Jewish Historical
Society, c1997.
HISTORY:
The first Jewish congregation in the Rio Grande Valley was a joint
Brownsville-Matamoros community. In
1876, according to a letter by Mayor Benjamin Kowalski of Brownsville, a
Hebrew Benevolent Association was formed and “feast and fast days” were
celebrated in Matamoros.
In the early 20th century, most
Jews in the upper Valley lived in Mercedes and Pharr, the two largest cities.
They rented a building in Mercedes for services until, in 1935, Temple
Beth Israel was erected in Mercedes.
By the late 1940s, there were so many
Jewish families in the McAllen area that a new temple was needed.
In 1948, 28 Jewish families met in Pharr to begin plans to form a
temple in the upper Rio Grande Valley. Construction
began in 1948 and on March 20, 1949, Temple Emanuel was dedicated in McAllen.
The Temple building was designed by McAllen
architect Zeb Rike and constructed by William E. Crawford of McAllen. It was remodeled and enlarged in 1973.
The first congregation had 60
members, with Adolph Westerman as president.
For the first seven years, men of the congregation took turns as lay
readers. Louis Herman, one of the
founders of the congregation, served as lay reader until his death. In 1956, Rabbi H. B. Ettinger became Temple Emanuel’s first
rabbi.
By 1998, its 50th year, the congregation had
expanded to 180 families. The
present rabbi is David Lipper.
| LAST
NAME |
FIRST
NAME |
BIRTH | DEATH |
|
ALBERT |
LOUIS |
1917 |
1996 |
|
BARNETT |
LORENE |
1920 |
1988 |
|
BARNETT |
JACK |
1901 |
1982 |
|
BASS |
HERMAN |
1891 |
1962 |
|
BASS |
SELMA
EPPSTEIN |
1899 |
1989 |
|
BERGER |
LOUIS |
1903 |
1981 |
|
BIEDERMAN |
LEON J |
1921 |
1990 |
|
CHALEFF |
FANNIE K |
1901 |
1977 |
|
CHALEFF |
ALBERT |
1888 |
1966 |
|
CHALEFF |
PHILIP
FRANK |
1927 |
1978 |
|
CHALEFF |
ELSIE
GOLDFINE |
1934 |
1997 |
|
CRYSTAL |
ROBERT
HOWARD |
1962 |
1962 |
|
DANZIG |
ABRAHAM |
1886 |
1965 |
|
DAVIS |
IRVING |
1901 |
1967 |
|
EDELSTEIN |
SOPHYE
HARRIS |
1899 |
1972 |
|
EDELSTEIN |
JACOB |
1892 |
1951 |
|
EICHNER |
SAMEL |
1928 |
1985 |
|
FALLEK |
LILLY
LEVINE |
1909 |
1994 |
|
FALLEK |
MIKE |
1906 |
1970 |
|
FARB |
DAV ID |
1921 |
1980 |
|
FRIEDMAN |
BETTY |
1907 |
1973 |
|
FURMAN |
JOSEPH |
1911 |
1979 |
|
GARONZIK |
MARION P |
1923 |
1983 |
|
GARONZIK |
ROLAND |
1920 |
1982 |
|
GELFER |
ROBERT E |
1939 |
1957 |
|
GELFER |
MANUEL L |
1908 |
1978 |
|
GELFER |
FRIEDA G |
1907 |
1986 |
|
GELFER |
ADOLPH |
1878 |
1959 |
|
GELFER |
YETTA |
1880 |
1963 |
|
GERALD |
DAVID
MICHAEL |
1900 |
1979 |
|
GERALD |
MARTHA
CLAIR |
1908 |
1994 |
|
GETTINGER |
PAULINE |
1876 |
1966 |
|
GETTINGER |
BENJAMIN |
1899 |
1955 |
|
GETTINGER |
JOSEPH |
1898 |
1962 |
|
GETTINGER |
HALLIE F |
1916 |
1988 |
|
GOLDBERG |
MAURICE B |
1896 |
1970 |
|
GOLDMAN |
GARY SETH |
1956 |
1972 |
|
GRABINER |
MORRIS |
1908 |
1985 |
|
GRABINER |
ANNA |
1910 |
1996 |
|
GREENFELD |
FANNY
BERNICE |
1903 |
1984 |
|
GREENFELD |
CHARLES |
1908 |
1971 |
|
HAAS |
STEPHEN |
1938 |
1996 |
|
HAAS |
LILLIAN
MELCHER |
1913 |
1986 |
|
HAAS |
ARTHUR
JAMES |
1912 |
1985 |
|
HARRIS |
SARA |
1901 |
1968 |
|
HARRIS |
ELI |
1898 |
1967 |
|
HARRIS |
ANNE |
1921 |
1995 |
|
HARRIS |
THOMAS |
1922 |
1995 |
|
HIRSCHBERG |
SELMA |
1902 |
1967 |
|
HIRSCHBERG |
CHARLES |
1890 |
1981 |
|
HOLAND |
SZAMA |
1916 |
1997 |
|
KATZ |
MELBA LEE |
1919 |
1990 |
|
KIRSH |
CLARA |
1924 |
1997 |
|
KIRSH |
NATHAN |
1905 |
1976 |
|
KLEIN |
BEN |
1897 |
1974 |
|
KLEIN |
ESTHER |
1901 |
1981 |
|
KUNIK |
IRVING |
1899 |
1994 |
|
KUNIK |
ELIZABETH |
1904 |
1972 |
|
LACK |
BEATRICE
HAAS |
1898 |
1988 |
|
LAC K |
SAM |
1901 |
1988 |
|
LAPIDES |
ROSE |
1915 |
1996 |
|
LESSER |
RAE L
MERKIN |
1902 |
1996 |
|
LEVIN |
SAM |
1920 |
1981 |
|
LEVINE |
ANDREA K |
1944 |
1991 |
|
LEVINE |
JAKE |
1907 |
1981 |
|
LUTZ |
MAX |
1901 |
1980 |
|
LUTZ |
RUTH |
1900 |
1972 |
|
MARCUS |
DAVOD |
1914 |
1980 |
|
MARCUS |
BESSIE F |
1917 |
1990 |
|
MARCUS |
IDA
MILBERG |
1887 |
1985 |
|
MARTINEZ |
RAMIRO |
1958 |
1992 |
|
MERKIN |
JULES L |
1901 |
1956 |
|
MILLER |
ERIC LOUIS |
1905 |
1993 |
|
MORITZ |
ISADORE |
1882 |
1958 |
|
MORITZ |
JULIA
BOLLACK |
1882 |
1977 |
|
MORROW |
JEFFERY |
1978 |
1984 |
|
NOVIGROD |
SAYAS |
1906 |
1982 |
|
NOVIGROD |
SIMA |
1906 |
1982 |
|
ORR |
SZIFRA |
1890 |
1970 |
|
ORR |
HENRY |
1911 |
1994 |
|
ORTON |
HELEN |
1921 |
1974 |
|
ORTON |
JOSEPH |
1917 |
1989 |
|
POPEK |
MORTON |
1938 |
1996 |
|
PRESENT |
SARA CHAIA |
1883 |
1979 |
|
RABINOVICH |
BERTHA R |
1897 |
1996 |
|
RABINOWITZ |
DR. GEORGE
E. |
1918 |
1992 |
|
RATKIN |
NATALIE |
1917 |
1984 |
|
ROITBERG |
BERTHA |
1919 |
1991 |
|
ROITBERG |
LEON |
1913 |
1993 |
|
ROSENTHAL |
DAVID R |
1916 |
1965 |
|
RUBIN |
PAULINE |
1910 |
1995 |
|
SCHLESINGER |
JEAN |
1903 |
1994 |
|
SCHLESINGER |
ROBERT
WILLIAM |
1926 |
1989 |
|
SCHNEPS |
GUSSIE |
1898 |
1997 |
|
SHAPIRO |
IRVING |
1928 |
1983 |
|
SIDELNIK |
RUTH
EDELSTEIN |
1923 |
1984 |
|
SINGER |
IDA |
1896 |
1962 |
|
SKLAR |
RAFAEL |
1934 |
1997 |
|
STROMBERG |
ESTHER
KUTCHER |
1909 |
1993 |
|
TAUB |
SOL |
1909 |
1982 |
|
TAUBMAN |
BETTY |
1900 |
1992 |
|
TAUBMAN |
JOSEPH |
1893 |
1967 |
|
TYRASH |
ANNA
GELFER |
1906 |
1996 |
|
TYRASH |
HENRY
AARON |
1898 |
1975 |
|
WEISFELD |
SARA ELLEN
GERRICK |
1935 |
1996 |
|
WEISFELD |
SAMUEL |
1927 |
1971 |
|
WERNICKY |
CHANA |
1910 |
1989 |
|
WESTERMAN |
ADOLPH |
1895 |
1990 |
|
WESTERMAN |
MARY
LEVINE |
1904 |
1984 |
|
WHITMAN |
JOSEPH |
1906 |
1988 |
|
WOLF |
DR. JAMES
M. |
1920 |
1980 |
|
WOLFF |
CHARLES
SOLOMON |
1905 |
1978 |