The Markow Family Tree

ES. In 1996, Eddie and Zella Sivlerman live at 5910 Valkeith, Houston Texas. MGR. In conversation with Ed Silverman, I learned that Ed was born in 1920 in Norfolk, Virginia. When he was two or three, his parents separated and he and his father moved in with his grandparents Rebecca and Harris Silverman, and with Madeline and Cima Goldie, his cousin and aunt. He and Madeline grew up together; Madeline was two years older. Ed was told that his mother had died. At some point Ed had secretly stumbled upon a locked drawer in his father's room and learned that they had really been divorced. At age 16, he was in Virginia Beach at a fraternity event and looked up his mother's house but did not knock. Twenty years later, when Ed was 36 and she was perhaps 62, his mother wrote him a letter. Ed immediately flew to meet her in Norfolk "and so began a love affair between mother and son." She became a grandmother to his children. Sol and his current wife Dottie, however, were incensed; Sol wrote that he was disowning Ed forever. Father and son never spoke again to shortly before Sol's death. Ed moved out of his grandparents house when his father remarried. Sol and Eddie and his new stepmother Margaret Murphy Silverman moved to an apartment in Pikesville. Ed remembers little about living with them, although remembers having very hurt feelings and his parents arguments. He di not live with them long, and the marriage did not last long. When Ed was perhaps twelve, his father started going out with "another shiksa." Dorothy Dixon was a cashier at a local theatre wo, among other things, let Ed and his friends in free after his Bar Mitzvah. Dorothy became Ed's stepmother. She was only seven or eight years older than Ed, and was more like a sister than a mother, going to movies and football games together, for example. She was also Lutheran and Ed would accompany her to church even while going to synagogue with Harris and Rebecca, Cima and Madeline. When Ed graduated from high school in January, 1938, he moved in with his father, lost all contact with the rest of his family, and went to work for the City. Three year's later, he went into the service. Before being transferred to Texas, he did see his cousins Donald and Merrill Little in California. In Texas he met and married Zella before being shipped overseas in 1944. On his 13th mission as a flight navigator, he was sot down oveer unoccupied France, only to return to Engladn and fly some more. He retired as a Captain from the Reserves in the 1960s after 19 � years. Years later, traveling as part of his job for US Rubber Company, he renewed ties with Madeline, Cima, and Gloria Speigler. Ed was general merchandise manager for the F&G Division of US Rubber, which supplied auto parts to K-Mart stores. Edwin and Zella married in 1943 and have four children: Russell Silverman, b. 1946; Barbara Silverman, a graduate of Brandeis; Kenneth Silverman; and David Silverman. "Sol and Dottie" attended Ed's wedding, but Sol did not reconcile with Ed until Ed's son Rusty was Bar Mitzvah'd. ES. SSDI: b. January 31, 1920; registered in MD.; d. September 5, 1999; last resided in Houston, Texas.

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