Mayer was to live another 12 years after the passing in 1936 of Draishka Brenner Uberstine, the mother of their five children.

Gitel was a widow with grown children when she became the second Mrs. Mayer Uberstine.  She and Mayer made their home on the second floor of the two-story house owned by Mayer's son-in-law, Meyer Caine, and his daughter, Lena.

The house across the street was where Mayer's sister, Toby, lived  with her daughter, Minnie Cohen Gelman, and her son-in-law Lou.  Their daughter,  Shirley Gelman Hausman, remembers:

Toby couldn't read.  Mayer and Gitel would come over with the Jewish newspapers, and Gitel would read them out loud.

Gitel's daughter had married well, according to Shirley, and on occasion, this daughter would send a car and chauffeur to fetch her mother.  After Mayer's death, Gitel was whisked away, and the family lost contact with her. 

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