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    • Bess Houdini

    Stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini (1876–1943)

    Bess Houdini

    Houdini in the early 1900s

    Born

    Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner


    (1876-01-23)January 23, 1876

    Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

    DiedFebruary 11, 1943(1943-02-11) (aged 67)

    Needles, California, U.S.

    Resting placeGate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York, U.S.
    Spouse

    Harry Houdini

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    (m. 1894; died 1926)​

    Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini (néeRahner; January 23, 1876 – February 11, 1943) was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini.[1]

    Biography

    Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner was born in Brooklyn, New York (before New York City was consolidated), in 1876 to German immigrants Gebhard Rahner (a cabinet maker) and Balbina Rahner (née Bugel).

    Bess was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she was first courted by Houdini's younger brother,