Valerie Drachsler

Source Citation:
Year: 1910; Census Place: Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1017; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 0385; FHL microfilm: 1375030

Year: 1920; Census Place: Manhattan Assembly District 15, New York, New York; Roll: T625_1214; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 1098

Year: 1930; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 1018; FHL microfilm: 2341312

he National Archives at Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; NAI Title: Declarations of Intention for Citizenship, 1/19/1842 - 10/29/1959; NAI Number: 4713410; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2009; Record Group Number: 21

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     Valerie Drachsler was born in Suczany, Hungary on the 16th of February 1892.  Suczany, or Sučany, is now part of the Zîlina Region of modern Slovakia.  

Valerie, her parents, Jacob and Lottie (Charlotte), and her five siblings: Annie (Aranka), Arthur (Abraham), Julius, Helen and Louis (Leo), traveled from Hungary in 1903 to make a new life in the United States.

The family settled in Manhattan, and at seventeen, Valerie went to work in a millinery shop, or dress house, where she was employed as an embroiderer.  She worked in this profession for many years.

Tragically, Valerie lost three family members in a ten year time span:  Annie died in 1920 when just 34 years old, Julius, a professor at the City College of New York, died from tuberculosis at just 38 years, and mother, Lottie, died in 1930 at the age of 68.  All are buried in Riverside Cemetery in Saddle Brook, New Jersey.  

In the years that followed, Jacob, Leo, Arthur and Helen would also be laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery.

Valerie Drachsler died on the 26th of February 1988 at Mount Sinai West Hospital and was buried on Hart Island on the 20th of April 1988.