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Masha DIAMOND (1859 - 1963)

Cemetery Eternal Gardens Memorial Park
Section Shaare Zion Congregation (Map: EG/SZ) List Overview
Location Section 5 Line E Grave 95
Given Names Masha
Surname DIAMOND
Hebrew Name Masha bat Yaacov
Birth Date 1859 Sep 20
Death Date 1963 Jan 26
Death Age 102
Spouse Max
Relatives Son Harry Son George
Obituary Mrs. Masha Diamond, the widow of Max Diamond, and a great-great-grandmother, died on Saturday, January 26, at the Maimonides Home for the Aged, at the age of one hundred and two years. She is survived by two sons: Harry H. Diamond, 5520 Mountain Sights Avenue; George Diamond, 6158 Macdonald Avenue; two daughters: Mrs, Charles Steinhouse (Ray), 4585 Michel Bibaud Street; Mrs. Morris Galet (Sonia), 11260 Bois de Boulogne; twenty-one grandchildren: Arthur Diamond, Mrs. Shirley Gordon, Mrs. Jack Blumer (Rhoda), and Stanley Diamond; children of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Diamond; Mrs. P. Carmen (Lorraine). Miss Doreen Diamond, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George Diamond; Herbert, Irwin, and Melvln Steinhouse; Miss Manya Galet, and Samuel Galet: Mrs. Philip Dibinsky (Flora). Mrs. Leo Shecter (Vera); children of Mrs, Tillie Diamond, and the late Samuel Diamond; William Diamond, Mrs. Mac Rosenthal (Eleanor), Mrs. Hyman Rosen (Bertha), Mrs. Arthur Schaffer (Dorothy), Mrs. Hanna Mayov, Gerald Diamond, and Irving Diamond; children of the late Mr. and Mrs. Barney Diamond; thirty great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. She was the mother of the late Mrs. Ida Geldenberg.

Funeral services took place from Paperman's, Rabbi A. Bernard Leffell officiated. Burial was at Shaare Zion Cemetery.

Born in Poland in 1860, Mrs. Diamond lived in New York until 1898 when she moved to Montreal with her husband in mid-winter. Terrified by the piles of snow, she wanted to return to New York but stayed on and founded a clothing business with her husband on Notre Dame Street. Right up to her death she had a remarkable memory and used to delight in telling stories of her early childhood in Poland. Her secret of longevity was: "Hard work, home-cooked food, and no spirits," she said in an interview several months ago. But she had a yen for chocolates and could eat two pounds a day, her son, Harry Diamond said. Her hobby until her one hundredth birthday was sewing shopping bags and cushions. As a hundredth birthday anniversary present she was offered a birds-eye view of Montreal with Eddie Rickenbacker, First World War flying ace and a aviation executive, at the controls. "Montreal, I've seen," she said. "If you will take me to Florida, I'll go."

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Photo New York circa 1895

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Obituary from CJR 1963-02-22
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