When Bertha (Blema) Rothberger was born on July 20, 1897, in Hungary, her father, Moricz, was 50, and her mother, Karolina, was 35. She married Sam (Abram) Goodman (Rowinski) on April 14, 1921, in Cleveland, Ohio. They had three children during their marriage. She died on February 23, 1984, in Beachwood, Ohio, at the age of 86, and was buried in Sheffield, Ohio.