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Stone of Leopold & Rosie Wollner, Waldheim Cem. IL

Leopold Wollner (Yiddish name of Leiv Asher, son of Yaakov) died age 78 on 20 Jan 1928; Rosie Schlenger, his wife, died, age 52, in 1915. They are buried in the Austrian Galacia section of Beth Israel Congregation in Waldheim Cemetery, 1400 S. Des Plaines Avenue, Proviso (Lake Forest) Illinois near Chicago. Leopold was a butcher with his father, Koppelman (Jacob or Yaakov) in NYC and then a cloth cutter in Chicago, where he lived for about 50 years. Rosie was his third wife--she made it to 52. His other wives, Zerliene (Carlina) and Dora died in their 30's and 20's.

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