Cecile Klein Celebrates Her 111Th Birthday with Great-Granddaughter, Hazel
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When son in Quebec, almost four months they got engaged, Nussbaum said, younger than Sarah Patenaude Bru- Cecile introduced Erwin to her great yère of Gatineau, born Feb. 20, 1907. grandmother, a sign of the Pearson Klein’s first party was celebrated family’s deep roots in Canada and at Maimonides Geriatric Centre, family longevity. where she now resides after falling Barbara Moser Erwin Klein had a pharmacy at home and fracturing her pelvis. Photo: across from Windsor Station, but The second party was held June 27, The clan gathered to celebrate a milestone “because of the Depression it didn’t enabling two of her children, Arnold Van Bibber said, adding that after then listen again and checked if she last too long,” Nussbaum recalled. Klein and Louise Van Bibber, to fly the Great Depression of the 1930s had done well. Cecile and her family were actively in from California to celebrate with there had been little stress in her “She practiced touch typing at involved as volunteers going door to their mom and enjoy ice-cream cake mother’s life. home, even though she didn’t have door with her father to offer help to provided by her Montreal daughter, Born in Montreal, in 1907, Klein a typewriter. She took a board and those suffering during the typhoid Harriet Nussbaum. was brought up on Notre Dame with a dime made circles and filled epidemic that ravaged Quebec and Surrounded by three generations, W. near Peel, where the Dow Plan- in the letters to practice at home.” Montreal from January to June 1927. including great grandchild Hazel etarium was later built, daughter to She worked first in a lawyer’s of- “My grandmother would do the Elizabeth Latt, Klein was beaming Rebecca Pearson and Louis Efros. fice, and then for RCA Victor, in cooking and they would bring food with obvious pride and joy, bathed Her father ran a haberdashery what today would be called human to the families,” Nussbaum recalled. in family love. store on Saint Hubert near Beaubien. resources. According to Klein, When the pharmacy failed, Klein “Very happy,” she said, her eyes The family, including Louis’ broth- managers asked members of the launched International Drugs, twinkling. “I’m sure everything’s ers Hy and Fred and sisters Bessie secretarial pool who would like to a manufacturer that sold drug right,” she remarked. and Lillian, were active in the Beth work for the RCA boss, and “all the Continued on page 4 The story of Cecile Efros Klein is Hamedrash Hagadol synagogue at a living testament to a part of Mon- 1887 Notre-Dame W. treal history. “Bessie would play the piano and She has three children, eight Lillian would give readings, and grandchildren, seven of whom are Cecile would help organize events to alive, and 17 great grandchildren, raise money for the synagogue and and one great great-grandson. its works,” Nussbaum recalled. While vastly improved health care Cecile attended Victoria School, is main reason for increasing lon- near Saint Mathieu, then high gevity, Klein’s active life has done school, and according to daughter- her good, working from a young age, in-law Tina Klein, at age 15 Cecile volunteering, and staying active and wanted to enter secretarial school involved in her later years. But there and though you had to be 16, “some- is more to her story than that. how she snuck in there.” Genetics appears to be an im- “She taught herself and practiced portant element in her longevity, shorthand. 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Continued from page 3 “She loves eating everything, products such as envelopes of especially steak. She has all her own Aspero that used to be carried in teeth, thanks to a granddaughter, restaurants, usually on the wall Elaine Nussbaum, who is a dentist. behind cash registers. And she reads the newspaper with- “My mother was in charge of out glasses.” orders for about ten different She downhill skied in winter and products.” In 1949 the German played tennis in summer. With pharmaceutical giant Bayer bought her husband – he was 94 when he out her father and the International died in 1999 – Cecile loved travel- Drug brand. ling, including a two-month North Erwin Klein worked at the Getz American tour in the 1970s, with Pharmacy at 1024 St. Laurent in the backpacks, thanks to a Greyhound Barbara Moser heart of China town, and on the job Bus $149 deal. learned Mandarin, which turned She lived at home until she fell last Photos: out to be useful when the couple fall, cooking her own food, and at- Cecile with children & grandkids Cecile with daughter, Harriet Nussbaum visited China long before it became tended every Mini-Med in the spring “When we got to the table there object, saying: “If I don’t do it myself popular. at the Jewish General until two years was a high chair — because the soft- I won’t be able to do it any longer.” From Notre Dame the Efros family ago, and loved to listen to scientist ware on board could not register “It’s her attitude that kept her moved to Olivier St. in Westmount, Joe Schwartz’s lecture on the first that she was 103, so they put her age going. When she fell and broke her and when she got married in1932 Mondays of the month at the Côte- down as three!” pelvis in Toronto about 20 years Cecile moved to Park Extension and Saint-Luc Library. According to granddaughter ago and she was told she’d never then in 1948 to the duplex on Clan- “I would take her for groceries and Elaine Nussbaum, Cecile Klein’s re- walk again, Cecile responded ‘Oh ranald and Dupuis, where she lived to the Beth Ora Seniors on Tuesday solve to do things herself accounts at yes I will’, and she proved them until her fall last year. afternoons for lectures,” Nussbaum least in part for her longevity. wrong. It’s her attitude that keeps She was active in the Shaare Zion recalled. She liked to visit art exhibits “If she dropped her cane and you her going.” Synagogue on Côte St. Luc Rd. and at the Museum of Fine Arts. went to pick it up for her, she would [email protected] then the Chevra Kadisha Bnai Jacob When she was 102 she went on a Sisterhood on Clanranald. cruise along the Mexican Riviera, and Nussbaum says there are no secrets at 103, took a cruise to Alaska, where to her mother’s long and healthy life. there was an amusing incident. Remember when gas was 55¢/litre? Take advantage of today’s prices. Plan your nal arrangements now and choose your own budget and monthly terms.