Celia Schapochsik Mailer
Norman Mailer's paternal grandmother. Born in Lithuania in 1870; arrived in South Africa in 1890; raised Barney Mailer and his siblings with her husband Benjamin; never settled in the United States. Dies 1945, while Norman is serving with the U.S. Army in the Pacific.
Born in Lithuania in 1870, Celia Schapochsik emigrated to South Africa in 1890 and raised Barney Mailer and his siblings with Benjamin Mailer. The couple remained in South Africa after Barney’s 1919 move to the United States; Benjamin died in May 1926.
Celia dies in 1945, recorded in Lennon’s 1945 Days entry — the year Norman is serving with the 112th Cavalry in MacArthur’s Luzon campaign and then with the occupation forces in Japan. Specific date and location not given in the source.