Gerturde was born on February 18th, 1911 in New York. Gerturde's father was Meyer Ollick and her mother was Helen Feinberg. She had two brothers and three sisters, named Abe, Joseph, Ester, Dorothy and Fannie. She was the third youngest of the six children. She died at the age of 89 on December 27th, 2000. She was buried at the Mount Olive Cemetery.1