Michael Marcus, later Michael Avni (מיכאל אבני), is the husband of Sarah Epstein (שרה אבני), the daughter of Tilly Morris, born Tilly Dik, the sister-in-law of Rachel Levin, my 2x great aunt. Morris family HERE
Parents: David Marcus and ?
Born: 27 February 1920 in ?
Married: Sarah Epstein in (April - June) 1941, in Liverpool, England. Sarah and Michael were both age 21. Michael later changed his surname to Avni
Children
Their first child was born in 1942 when Sarah and Michael were both age 22
- Aviva Avni (1942 - 2000)
- Jonathan Simon Avni
Death
Michael died on 29 November 1991 in Israel, age 71. He is buried in the Herzliya Pinsker Old Cemetery, Pinsker Street, Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, Israel, Block ו, Plot א, Row 16, Spot 20
מיכאל אבני
לבית מרכוס
טוב לב אוהב אדם
In English:
Here lies
Michael Avni
formerly/of the Marcus family
kind-hearted, a lover of people
1920–1991 and the usual תנצב״ה (“May his soul be bound in the bond of life”)
