From 26 Dec 1963, 50 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com: [819]

ESTERSON, Sol, formerly of Chicago, beloved husband of Lena, father of Howard, Jean Edelmann of Los Angeles, Dorothy Greene, Estell Grossman, Faye Pavlove, and Ruth Beyda, all of Skokie, Ill., also nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Services at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Mount Memorial Park Chapel. Mount Sinai Mortuary.

Sol Esterson was born in the late 19th century in Odesa, a bustling port city within the Russian Empire. While the exact year of his birth is recorded in various documents as 1883, 1884, or 1885, his origins in this vibrant Ukrainian city placed him in a diverse and rapidly changing environment. Odesa, on the Black Sea, was a significant center for trade and culture, drawing people from across Eastern Europe and beyond, a dynamic backdrop for his early years.

As a young man, Sol embarked on a journey that would take him across continents. Around July 1909, he married Anna Rae Weintraub in Mile End, London, United Kingdom. Their first child, Dorothy, was born in London in April 1910. The following year, in 1911, Sol and his young family made the momentous decision to emigrate to the United States, settling in Chicago, Illinois, like many other immigrants seeking new opportunities in the burgeoning American industrial landscape.

In Chicago, Sol established himself as a skilled tradesman. He worked consistently in painting and paperhanging, a profession that saw him described in census records as a "Painter in Private Homes" in 1920, a "Painter of Buildings" in 1930, and a "Decorator in Painting and Paperhanging" by 1940. He even operated as a "Painting and Paper Hanging Contractor" for A Lederberger and Company in 1918. He and Anna Rae raised a large family, welcoming Estell, Jennie, Faye, Howard Louis, and Ruth H into the world in Chicago, building a life rooted in hard work and family in the heart of the American Midwest.

Later in life, after Anna Rae's passing in 1947, Sol relocated to Los Angeles, California. He remarried, finding companionship with Lena, who brought her son, Harold, into the family. Sol Esterson passed away in Los Angeles on December 24, 1963, at the age of 80, leaving behind a legacy of a large and extended family, a testament to a life that traversed empires and oceans in search of opportunity and built through a steady hand and a dedicated trade. He was laid to rest at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles.