Rose Spiro Siemientek

1910 – 1990

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Rose Spiro Siemientek was born on August 15, 1910, in Warsaw, Poland, to Moshe Spiro and Henja Lubart Spiro. She was married twice, to Paul Muller and David Siemientek, and she had one child, Gabriela “Gaby” Muller Hogg (click here to view her biography).

In an unknown year, Rose immigrated to Israel from Poland and married her first husband, Paul Muller. According to her daughter’s obituary, Gaby was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, on December 8, 1937, to Rose and Paul.

In 1951, Rose and Paul divorced, and Rose remarried David Siemientek of Caracas, Venezuela. Rose, David, and Gaby left Israel for Venezuela and lived in Venezuela for 12 years before immigrating to the U.S. in 1963. According to visa documentation on Ancestry, however, Rose traveled to the U.S. at least three times, from November 22, 1959, to January 15, 1960, September 14, 1960, to November 15, 1960, and November 14, 1962, to an illegible date, before officially immigrating to the U.S. It is unknown where the family first settled in the U.S. Her second husband, David, died in 1975.

According to Rose’s obituary in the Centre Daily Times, Rose died on August 9, 1990, at 2:30pm at the age of 79 of unknown causes at the Centre Community Hospital in State College, Pennsylvania. She lived at 110 East Foster Avenue in State College at the time. She was buried at the Rodef Shalom Cemetery in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.