Aceman (Jack Aceman), Vancouver;Rose Franks(Lou Geller, Monte Franks) of Los Angeles and Jack Singer (Shirley Cohen) of Calgary.

      Abraham Singer died in 1942 at the age of 62. His was the first burial in the Jewish section of Queen's Park Cemetary. Bella Singer passed away in 1984;at the age of 103, she was the oldest Jewish resident of Calgary.

      Rabbi Simon Smolensky was born in Smela, Russia, in 1882. As a teenager he taught at a small town cheder in order to finance rabbinic studies in Lithuania.

      He immigrated to the United States in 1904, and occupied pulpits in Mobile, Alabama, Shreveport, Louisiana and Tyler, Texas. He came to Calgary in 1917 to serve as Rabbi for the House of Jacob Congregation.

      He remained as Calgary's only Rabbi until 1935. As the spiritual leader of Calgary's Jews, Rabbi Smolensky was influential and farsighted. He was instrumental in establishing an independent Talmud Torah, and also sup- ported the community centre building drive.

      After his retirement from Beth Jacob, he helped form the Beth Israel Congregation, and led many services at its early House of Israel location. He also provided his services to other Jewish communities who lacked full-time Rabbis. Rabbi Smolensky represented the Calgary Jewish commu- nity at many civic events, and was a popular public speaker.

      Jenny and Simon Smolensky raised five children in their large home on 1st Street E.

      The children were Lena(Sam Hanen), Ben(Pat Kahanoff), Jack(Ruby Sigler), David(Pauline) and Esther(Noah Gordon).

      Jenny Smolensky passed away in 1957 at 74. Rabbi Simon Smolensky died in 1964 at the age of 82, after 47 years of leadership in the Calgary Jewish community.

      As related by Ben Sherwood:

      "Our father, Rev. Hirsch Sosinsky, came to Calgary around 1905 in answer to an advertisement from the Calgary Jewish community for a shochet and cantor. Hirsch was born in Russia and was employed by the Jewish community in Owen Sound, Ontario, before coming to Calgary.

      "Shortly after coming to Calgary, Hirsch Sosinsky married Etta Sair, a member of the Sair family of the Hirsch Colony in Oxbow, Saskatchewan.

      "Hirsch's duties were, as you can imagine, quite extensive. In addition to his duties as shochet and cantor he was also the bal-kriah and the mohel, performing this duty for many families outside of Calgary.

      "He also officiated at the marriages of the time. One of these was the marriage of Frank and Nellie Tucker. Mrs. Tucker always reminds me (Ben) that I attended their wedding at our parent's house at the gentle age of 2 years. Our oldest brother Lewis was born here in 1909, Ben in 1914 and Alec in 1917.

      "Despite the many duties which Hirsch carried out for the community, they did not provide a satisfactory standard of living. About 1910 he resigned from his position with the House of Jacob Congregation and opened a grocery store at 328 - 4th Avenue E. in Calgary. He operated this store until his death in 1957, after which the store was operated for a few years by our mother and Alec."

      A 1907 pogrom convinced Romanian Jewish patriarch Moses Strulovici to send his four sons to Canada. All four -Max, Harry, Ralph and Morris - arrived in Southern Alberta before World War I.

      Max (1888-1961), and Harry(1892-1965), their names changed to Srolovitz, homesteaded at the Jewish bloc settlement near Rumsey. They were joined briefly on the farm by the younger brothers, Ralph(1897- 1973) and Morris(1900-1969).

      Max Srolovitz married Golda Rosenzweig(1887-1958) in 1914, and Harry Srolovitz married Golda's sister Mary(1893-1956) two years later. Ralph moved to the USA during the first war. Harry and Marry Srolovitz remained on the Rumsey farm until the 1940's; the rest of the family moved to Calgary during the 1920's.

      Max Srolovitz became a cattle dealer after he left the farm, but in the 1930's ran a number of Calgary businesses - The Centre Confectionery, the Keen Confectionery, and the Cut Rate Furniture and Tool Exchange (later renamed Second Hand Hardwareteria). Max later owned Sayles Hardware, a sporting goods and second-hand store named Sayles for the name his sons had chosen to replace Srolovitz.

      Max and Golda had three children: Pearl(b.1915), Dave(b.1917) and Joe(1920-1960). Pearl Sayles went into retailing, owning Gifts by Harrow and Sayles Saddlery. She first married Lew Harrow (1917-1954) and then Joe Goldberg(1915-1971).

      Dave Sayles became a scientist, earning a Ph.D. at Purdue and working on NASA space projects. He and wife Marion raised twin sons Lance and Lynn(b.1957) in Huntsville, Alabama.

      Joe Sayles fought in World War II, and then went into his father's business, Frenchy's Sporting Goods, which became a familiar store to all Calgary sportsmen. Joe Sayles married Esther Devlin (1925-1987) and they have two sons, Cyril(b.1944) and Harvey(b.1952)

      Harry and Mary Srolovitz continued to live on the farm unil 1941, when they bought the Red & White Store nearby in nearby Rumsey, they had four children: Ralph(1918-1990), Shirley(b.1919), Helen(b.1922) and Morris(b.1926)

      Ralph and Morris moved to Rumsey and joined their father as partners in his store. In the mid-50's Ralph and Morris changed their surnames to Sanders.

      Their sister Shirley moved to Calgary and married a Lethbridge business, Max Corenblum. Helen Srolovitz lived in Rumsey, worked in the family store, and later moved to Edmonton, marrying Saul Dlin.

      The family business interests spread, with Morris establishing himself as a bulk fuel dealer in Rumsey. The Red & White Store was sold in 1959; Harry Srolovitz, now a widower, and sons Morris and Ralph pulled up stakes after fifty years in the Rumsey district.

      Morris Sanders and his wife Miriam Freedman (b.1926) moved to Calgary. Ralph Sanders and his wife Ruth Kosasky went to Vancouver. A year later Harry Srolovitz bought the Whitehouse Hotel in Drumheller, and Morris and Ralph, with their families, joined him there.

      Harry Srolovitz died in 1965;in 1975 Morris and Ralph sold the Drumheller Hotel and moved to Calgary, becoming apartment building owners.

      Ralph and Ruth Sanders had three children: Molly(b.1956), Melvin (b.1958) and Marvin(b.1964). Shirley and Max Corenblum had one son,