Nairobi South cemetery - Leah Harrtz, Jewish, died 4 Jan 1936 aged 73

Glimpses - Mrs Harrtz lived for more than 50 years [wrong] in EA having first arrived in 1907. She was a member of the League of Mercy from 1910 and a Founder Member of the Lady Northey Home and many other social welfare organizations.

Christine Nicholls in Old Africa 24-7-2013 - In about 1910 Sammy’s father Herman died in South Africa and consequently his mother Dora, sister Hettie and sister Leah (with her husband ‘Jack’ Hyman Lazarus) joined Sammy in East Africa. Hettie began working for her brother, but then branched out to own several successful hotels in Nairobi – the Victoria, Trocadero, Avondale, and the large Avenue Hotel. She married Gus Jarrettsky, who had his own orchestra in Nairobi. As for Gertrude, she was a member of the League of Mercy from 1910 and a founder member of the Lady Northey Home and many other social welfare organisations in Kenya. She married in Mombasa, in February 1907, Philip Raphael, well known in Nairobi as a businessman, auctioneer, general merchant, cabinet-maker, wheelwright and Land Agent. He was a member of the first Convention of Associations and the Nairobi chamber of commerce. He died in 1925 and Gertrude married Michael Harrtz, an early arrival in East Africa (1901), founder of the tinsmiths Harrtz & Bell, who died in 1943. Leah and Jack Lazarus (who died in 1917) started a furniture business in Nairobi’s Victoria Street.