Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapels

We at Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapels have been proudly serving the Jewish families of the New York Metropolitan Area for nearly one Century.

Since 1905 Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapel has been a respected name in Jewish funeral service, endeavoring to make a time of loss for each family as bearable as possible.

Not dealing with death on a daily basis, people do not realize that there is a "normal" process in handling an innumerable amount of details. At Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapel, we pride ourselves on having 16 full-time Licensed Funeral Directors and support staff helping you to cohesively orchestrate the timely, dignified last wishes of your loved one.

The reputation and goodwill of Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapel, has been carefully stitched together over these past 99 years, during which time we have earned a reputation for fairness, honest dealing, sensitivity to special secular and religious needs, and professionalism.

	"A TALE OF TWO FAMILIES"

1905	Josef Schwartz founds firm in a livery stable on Prospect Avenue in The Bronx - Firm was originally known as Hirsch & Schwartz

1920's	Chapel was re-located to East Tremont Avenue

1928	David Schwartz is licensed and joins father’s firm

1929	Irwin Jeffer founds funeral home on Throop Avenue in Brooklyn As the years continue the Jeffer family moves their funeral home 3 times within the Borough of Manhattan

1930	Michael Schwartz is licensed and joins his father and brother

1933	Death of Josef Schwartz and the beginning of the break-up of the Hirsch and Schwartz Funeral Firm. [A rabbinical board [Beth Din] was called in to forge an amicable settlement

1936	Martin Schwartz becomes last of brothers to join firm

1937	Hirsch and Schwartz dissolve their business and David and Michael Schwartz open a storefront funeral home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and simply call the chapel - Schwartz Brothers Memorial Chapel Inc

1938	Medwin Jeffer joins his father Irwin in their business

1940	Jeffer funeral home establishes their Brooklyn chapel on New York Avenue Schwartz Brothers opens a modern chapel on East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx

1947	Alvin Jeffer joins his father, Irwin and brother, Medwin in the family business after the end of WW II

1950	Schwartz Brothers erect their first building on Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills

1952	Jeffer erects a new edifice on New York Avenue to serve the growing Jewish population of Brooklyn

1958	Jack Schwartz affiliates with firm and joins his father David Schwartz and his uncles Michael and Martin Schwartz in the management of the firm

1960	Jeffer expands to Queens and opens modern funeral home in Hollis, New York

1963	Completion of Schwartz Brothers location on Queens Boulevard in its present location

1969	Jeffer affiliates with International Funeral Service

1972	Schwartz Brothers affiliates with International Funeral Service

1981	International Funeral Service merges with Service Corporation International from Houston Texas

1989	Jeffer Funeral Homes close their facility in Hollis and merges with Schwartz Brothers and is now known as Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapels Paul Schwartz joins his father, Jack Schwartz, as part of the funeral firm

1995	Harvey Lewis Schwartz, son of David Schwartz affiliates with combined firm

Please Note:	Over the years both firms had many dedicated colleagues who became part of the families of the individual and combined firms. Jeffer Funeral Home was fortunate to have had the following people make a difference for the families they served: Jack Workman, Nigel LeClaire, Jack Donnelly, Michael Sherman, William Grushow, Harold Goldsmith, Don Scardino, Paul Rudolph. Schwartz Brothers Funeral Home was also indeed fortunate for the caring and concern of their valued colleagues: Barbara Schwartz, Louis Sussan, John Palmer, Louis Guarino, Izzy Yanis, Oscar Tudor, Michael Lynch, Joseph Gilberto, Joseph Donner [who first drove horse drawn hearses and then learned to drive motorized hearses. He worked for Schwartz Brothers for more than 50 years.

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Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapels
114-03 Queens Blvd (at 76th Rd)
Forest Hills, NY 11375
Toll Free 800-690-1646
Telephone: 718-263-7600
Fax: 718-575-3202
E-mail: Inquires@schwartzjeffermemorial.com