Birth: May 19, 1900 in Skuodas, Skuodas District Municipality, Klaipėda, Lithuania
Death: December 11, 1979 in Victoria, B.C.
Death Registration Number:1979-09-018581
Plot: Row C – Plot 7
Inscription:
In Loving Memory
BENJAMIN LOUIS
בימיך בך
נרב לוי
BORN SKOUDAS LITHUANIA 1900
DIED IN VICTORIA B.C. IN 1979
FOREVER REMEMBERED FROREVER LOVED
Translation of inscription:
In Loving Memory Benjamin Louis
בימיך בך נרב לוי
(The Hebrew spelling is odd and may have been intended to read ‘Binyamin ben Harav Levi’)
Born Skoudas Lithuania in 1900, Died in Victoria B.C. in 1979
Forever Remembered, Forever Loved
Biography:
He married Mary Prudence Smith on December 1, 1938 in the Court House, Victoria, B.C. The 1958 Voters List for Esquimalt showed Benjamin and Mary living at 1000 Cloverdale Ave. Benjamine was listed as a furniture dealer.
Parents:
Glicko Levy born in Lithuania
Aaron Louis Sheresevsky born in Lithuania
Spouse:
Mary “Molly” Prudence Smith Louis (1915-2006)
Children:
Linden Colin
Robin Linda
Daphne
Gregory
Additional Images:
The Jewish Cemetery of Victoria, British Columbia 