I just checked the Maryland state archives and your theory was correct!  Freida died on Feb. 28th, 1022!  Unfortunately, it appears as if her parents' names were "unknown." I'll go back to the gravestone and see if I can clean up the image at all to be able to read it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!  You are a very talented group and I appreciate your time!


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Tracy Grigoriades

Wayne, PA

Researching: Greenberg (Pasvitinys, Lithuania), Slevitz (Subate, Lithuania), Adler (Wytkor, Galicia), Friedlander (Skadvile, Russia), Blinder (Pocotilova, Kiev, Ukraine), Savitt (Grodno, Belarus), Newman (Zemplen, Hungary), Weissman (Kamenetz, Ukraine)

If that relative had siblings that died in the US you may be able to find the names you are seeking from their death certificates.

Marshall Lerner
West Chester, PA

Lerner or Beitel from Brecini; Sternberg or Steinberg from Khotin; Gherbel or Gabel from Darabani & Bucharest; Eisenberg & Markowitz from Roman or Tirgu Neamt
Smoler from Zhitomir; Hodes from Lodz; Pachter from Wolbrom or Kielce

There is something rather unusual about the death certificate - the informant was the husband Philip Friedlander. He gave the names of Frieda's parents as unknown.

However, Philip and Frieda married in Russia, where their first 7 children were born, according to the 1910 census. Philip must have known Frieda's parents, especially since weddings were such a big deal in shtetls, and these matches between a young husband and wife were arranged by their respective families.

I suppose he might have been overwhelmed at the death of his wife, and not able to provide the information when asked about the names of Frieda's parents.
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Michele Lock

Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock and Kalon/Kolon in Zagare/Joniskis/Gruzdziai, Lithuania; Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock in Plunge/Telsiai in Lithuania
Rabinowitz in Papile, Lithuania and Riga, Latvia; Trisinsky/Trushinsky/Sturisky and Leybman in Dotnuva, Lithuania
Olitsky in Alytus, Suwalki, Poland/Lithuania; Gutman/Goodman in Czestochowa, Poland
Lavine/Lev/Lew in Trenton, New Jersey and Lida/Vilna gub., Belarus

Very interesting observation!  I had the same thoughts.  Unfortunately, it's not the only time I've seen this recently.  I ordered three death certificates from the Maryland state archives recently (a very easy process and reasonably priced at $5 per PDF), and, for two out of the three, the parents' names were unknown. One of them was as recently as 1988.  My great grandfather lived to be 102 and I was so surprised that my grandmother didn't know his parents' names, when asked.  It made me wonder whether they stopped actually asking that question, or whether it was asked inconsistently and "unknown" was just entered?!
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Tracy Grigoriades

Wayne, PA

Researching: Greenberg (Pasvitinys, Lithuania), Slevitz (Subate, Lithuania), Adler (Wytkor, Galicia), Friedlander (Skadvile, Russia), Blinder (Pocotilova, Kiev, Ukraine), Savitt (Grodno, Belarus), Newman (Zemplen, Hungary), Weissman (Kamenetz, Ukraine)

I too noticed that rather surprising lack of info.

I wonder if we can attribute it to religious Jewish mourning traditions.  The mourning persons are not supposed to be doing anything active, things are done for them.  Maybe it was someone else facing the clerk, speaking in the Rabbi's name.
Unlike the doctor's report, which was filled at home and in his handwriting, the rest of the data was typed in: by a clerk in an office, presumably by a clerk.  Interestingly, both the "filed" date and the registrar's name don't appear on the document.

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Odeda Zlotnick
Jerusalem, Israel.