My Dope Ancestors

My ancestors I chose to research for this ancestor project are my moms grandparents, Tillie Besen Ostrie and her husband, Joseph Abraham Ostrie. Tillie was my great-grandmother. They are both buried at Riverside Gordon Memorial Chapels at Mount Nebo in Kendall, Florida. Tillie was buried in a grave with a single marble stone flush with grass. Her headstone reads, "Beloved Wife, Mother and Grandmother. 10/20/1911-7/13/1994". She is buried next to her husband, Joseph Abraham Ostrie, who is my great-grandfather. Joseph was buried in a single marble stone laying flat and flush with the grass. His headstone reads, "Beloved Husband, Father and Grandfather 12/24/1908 - 6/1/1975". Both stones had a Jewish star engraved in the top center of the marble, since they both were Jewish. I chose to research them because I did not ever have the chance to meet them, so I wanted to get a better understanding of them and their lives both as individuals and as a married couple. I resorted to asking my mother and uncle for information about them, since they knew them the best out of my family. In addition to asking my mom and uncle, I called the funeral home to gain information about their graves and any information they had on them and their lives. 

Above is the census from 1940, where their names are located on the left side towards the middle/bottom of the list

Joseph Abraham Ostrie was born in Poland and moved here at a young age. When he moved here, they did not know his actual date of birth, so they made it up as December 24, 1908. Tillie Besen Ostrie was born in New York, and lived there her whole life, up until the day she met Joseph. They moved to Miami where he started the Zamora Temple in Coral Gables, Florida. He also was a production manager for a sports coats Company. Tillie was a stay at home mom, and never worked. They married and had my moms’ adoptive mom, Harriet. Harriet and Bert, my grandpa, adopted my mother, Faith, and my uncle, Evan. Harriet passed in early 2000’s, and Bert remarried his second wife, Sharon. Tillie and Joseph both lived very interesting lives, traveling from Poland to New York, and growing a big family together. According to my grandpa, Bert, "Tillie was a very lovely grandmother", and "Joseph was a hard worker, who never stopped working until he was done with his task."

Above is a picture of Tillie and Joseph.