Morris Isenberg

When Morris ISENBERG was born on June 4, 1894, in Gilserberg, Germany, his father, Salomon, was 44 and his mother, Betti, was 35. He had six siblings. He died on September 17, 1983, in Kansas City, Missouri, at the age of 89.

Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities - Stillwater, Oklahoma http://www.isjl.org/oklahoma-stillwater-encyclopedia.html

Over the years, as it moved to larger locations, the Katz Department Store became the biggest and oldest store in town as well as a way station for newly arrived Jewish immigrants. Many Jewish immigrants, most of whom were related to Katz, boarded trains bound for Stillwater to get their start in America working for the Katz Department Store. In the early 1920s, Jake brought over Morris Isenberg, the son of family friends in Germany, who worked in the store until he retired.

Morris sponsored his brother, Ludwig, and his family to allow them to come to the US in 1937, followed by other family members in the next few years. He lived with his half-sister, Bella, in a small house in Stillwater, until she passed. He moved to a senior living facility in Kansas City for the last few years of his life. He was known to his great nephews and great nieces as "the little man with the big cigar." Morris had a kind and caring soul.