Harold C. Shore

Mae C. Shore

Harold’s wife. Married February 11, 1930. Together more than fifty years.

Mae was born on March 8, 1909, and died on February 13, 2007. Her memorial card is at the bottom of this page. Her middle name was Carol, according to her Florida voter card.

Her birth name was Strahl. As the family tells it, her mother died in a fire, and Mae used her grandmother’s name, Strulowitz, at the time of her marriage.

She and Harold were married on Tuesday, February 11, 1930, at The Aperion Manor in Brooklyn. The marriage certificate gives the bride as Minnie (Mae) Strulowitz. See the certificate and its Hebrew marriage contract. The invitation names her by her birth name, Miss Mae C. Strahl, and it was sent by her grandmother, Mrs. L. Strulowitz. See the invitation.

Mae called him “Bub.” A handwritten note card to her, signed “Bub,” survives with its envelope. See the note. Harold wrote her loving notes for birthdays and anniversaries, signed “Bub” or “Honey Boy.” See the notes. Two days after the wedding the attorney Louis Lazarus wrote the couple a warm letter about the wedding feast. Read the letter.

Their son was Warren.

The wedding papers

Wedding invitation: Mrs. L. Strulowitz requests the honor of your presence at the marriage of her granddaughter, Miss Mae C. Strahl, to Mr. Harold C. Schnuer, on Tuesday, February eleventh, nineteen hundred and thirty, at seven o’clock, at The Aperion Manor, Kings Highway and E. Ninth Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.Wedding invitation. The fold crease across the middle was smoothed out digitally; the wording is untouched., February 11, 1930
The reply card and envelope from the wedding invitation. The card asks guests to respond before January twenty-fifth. The envelope is addressed to Mrs. L. Strulowitz, Mae's grandmother, at Brighton Beach Avenue, Brooklyn.Wedding invitation set (see C13), Early 1930
The marriage certificate, in English. Harold Schnuer and Minnie (Mae) Strulowitz, Brooklyn, N.Y., on the Eleventh of February 1930 (14 Sh’vat 5690). The minister signed Israel Goldfarb, 360 Clinton St., Brooklyn. Witnesses: Max Martin and Marcus Mandel. Bride and groom signed it themselves.Certificate of marriage, February 11, 1930
The Hebrew marriage contract (ketubah) that goes with the certificate. It is headed with the verse “The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.”Ketubah, Brooklyn, N.Y., February 11, 1930

A note from Bub

A handwritten note card, "To my darling, with all my love, Bub," with its envelope addressed "M. C. Schnuer." Mae called Harold "Bub."Family keepsake, Probably around 1930

Portraits of Mae

Mae in an oval portrait, in a satin blouse and pearl earrings. The print has a crease across it.
Mae in a yellow lace gown, in a hand-tinted studio portrait.
Mae, smiling, in a satin top and pearls. The print has a crease across it.
Mae C. Shore, from her passport.

Mae as a girl and a young woman

Pictures of Mae before and around the time she married Harold. Where the family is not sure, the caption says “believed.” Pictures of Harold and Mae together are on Harold and Mae.

Believed to be Mae as a small child, with her mother.
Mae as a young girl, smiling and sitting on a bench in a belted romper with a wide white collar and cuffs, with white socks and shoes. A studio portrait.
Mae in the garden of the Ambassador Hotel. An album page.Written on the album page: "Ambassador Hotel, 1929", 1929
Mae sitting on the grass at the Ambassador Hotel.Written on the album page: "Ambassador Hotel, 1929", 1929
Believed to be Mae in a fur coat beside an old car.
Believed to be Mae on the beach, a refreshment stand behind her.

At home and out

Mae at a table under a big umbrella on a lawn.
Mae holding a glass, a window with flowers behind her.
Mae in a long black gown in a living room.
Mae in a green blouse in a backyard with a picket fence.
Mae on a lounge chair in a backyard.
Mae in a blue dress by a white piano and a painted mural.
Mae in a vest, skirt and white blouse with a corsage, reclining in a wooden lawn chair.
Mae with another woman, arm in arm on a lawn: one in a white dress with a belt, one in a dark dress with white trim, a brick house behind them.

At the beach and in the sun

Mae in a bikini sitting in an inflatable raft on the grass.
Mae in a floral swimsuit at the edge of the surf.
Mae in a headscarf on a beach with a jetty.

Her memorial card

Memorial card for Mae C. Shore. Born March 8, 1909. Died February 13, 2007. Services Sunday, February 18, 2007, at Riverside Gordon Memorial Chapel, Aventura, Florida. Officiating: Rabbi Yisroel Finman.Memorial card, February 13, 2007
The other page of Mae’s memorial card: “The Mourner’s Kaddish,” in Hebrew and in English letters, with parts for the reader, the mourners and the congregation.Memorial card, inside page, February 2007