Bernarda Giuseppa (Gennusa) Orlansky (1913 - 1965)

Born 19 Mar 1913 in Corleone, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Ancestors

Wife of Stanley Orlansky — married about 1941 in New Jersey, United States

Descendants

Died 20 May 1965 at age 52 in Brooklyn, New York, United States

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Biography

Bernarda was born in 1913. At the age of 4 she sailed on the Dante Alighieri from Italy along with her mother, Carmela, arriving October 5, 1917 to join her father Vincenzo who had previously come to the United States. She became known as Bernice but was also referred to as Dina. She married Frank T. Milone on September 2, 1934 and had one child, Vincent Joseph Milone. Bernice and Frank later divorced. She married Stanley Orlansky in 1941 and had two children, Bernice Marie Orlansky in 1943 and Stanley V. Orlansky in 1948. She passed away in 1965 and is buried in the Old St. Raymond's Cemetery, 1201 Balcom Ave, Bronx, NY 10465

Bernice's name and dates were never engraved on the headstone as the cemetery forgot to do. My father, her brother paid to have it done in 1965. He went back in 1969 to check on it and the headstone engraving was not done. My father had paid cemetery fees thru 1967. When he paid to have his sister's name put on head stone. I went to cemetery in January 2014, they claim to have no recollection and the stone man is out of business. They also wanted me to pay the cemetery fees from 1968 to 1982ish when they stopped yearly payments. (Anthony--grandson)

Sources

• Nephew and paper work that was given to me by my father.
• Her naturalization paperwork shows her exact birth date as well as name upon arrival to the United States on Oct. 5, 1917. Photos in my (her granddaughter's) possession of first marriage to Frank Milone, marriage record found on Ancestry.com. Exact date of death provided by relative Anthony Gennusa from papers in his possession.

• Emigration to the United States with her Mother- she was 4 years of age. "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9TF-D9Z4-N?cc=1368704&wc=4XBX-3G9%3A1600472558 : 26 January 2018), Roll 2546, vol 5952-5954, 3 Oct 1917 > image 232 of 1170; citing NARA microfilm publication T715 and M237 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).