When Doris Silber was born in 1930, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John George Silber, was 26 and her mother, Hilda Silber, was 24. She married Daniel Ahern in 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1935 and Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. She died on 17 March 2006, in Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Ambler, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Mendel, Arye, Chaim, Meyer, Moishe, Moshe, Asher, Chanie, Charna, Cyla, Faina, Hinda. German Kurt, Wilhelm, Jurgen, Klaus, Siegmar.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German silber, German Silber ‘silver’; a metonymic occupational name for a silversmith, or often, in the case of the Jewish surname, an artificial name.
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