NameFrank Schepper 
BirthSept. 22, 1905, Punitz, Austria
DeathMarch 11, 1961, New York City
FatherJosef Schepper
MotherMaria Szakasits
bur.St. Raymond’s Cemetery, Bronx, NY
Short bioFrank (born Franz) Schepper emigrated to the U.S. on May 8, 1922, with other boys from Punitz aboard the S.S. Orbita ocean liner, which sailed to New York from Hamburg, Germany, according to granddaughter Robin Schepper. At the time, he was either 16½ (if he was born in 1905) or 17 (according to the ship’s manifest). He married Margaret on April 6, 1935, in New York City. He was an electrician for Con Edison. They lived at 33-40 Corporal Kennedy Street, Bayside, in Queens, NY, when he died at age 55. Frank was Joseph Lasica‘s great uncle, though Joseph didn’t know about him until long after his death in 1961.
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- Frank (Franz) Schepper’s passenger record after his arrival at Ellis Island in 1922.
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- We think that’s Josef Schepper, second from right, with four of his sons in a photo likely taken in Punitz, Austria, perhaps around 1920. Frank (Franz) Schepper is in the middle.
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- Frank (Franz) Schepper in a portrait most likely taken in the 1920s or 1930s.
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- Frank Schepper holding daughter Gertrude around 1937.
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- Margaret and Frank Schepper with daughter Gertrude on the S.S. Homeland during a trip to Europe in 1954.
