Fritz and Stella remained in Milan, immigrating in 1950 to the United States, where all three of their children lived. The two younger children lived in New York, but Fritz did not want to live in a metropolis like New York. Their oldest son Peter had come to the United States in 1939, lived first in New York and then in Rhode Island, and was drafted into the U.S. Army in late 1945. He was stationed at Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi, and then apparently was transferred to Brookley Field in Mobile, Alabama, where he met Rebecca Mutchnick, a native Mobilian. They were married in 1946 and had their first child, Eileen, in 1947. Fritz and Stella decided that Mobile was the right size city for them, and when they came to the States in early 1950, they headed for Mobile after arriving in New York, apparently, on the very day that their grandson William was born in Mobile. They settled in Mitchell Courts, an apartment building on Monterey and Government Streets in which a number of Jewish families lived. Knowing that they had to support themselves, they took advantage of the fact that there were in Mobile at that time a number of Jewish owners of small, neighborhood grocery stores. They managed the F&S Store in the neighborhood of Orange Grove, north of downtown Mobile. Stella, who had contracted polio as a young woman, always walked with a cane and a limp, but nevertheless she went every day with her husband to work in their store. She even learned to drive, using her left leg. Since most of the German and Italian Jewish immigrants had joined the Reform Spring Hill Avenue Temple, which is the congregation they chose to become members of.
Fritz died 10 February 1980 in Mobile, Alabama. Stella died 2 Jun 1967 in Mobile. Both are buried in the Springhill Avenue Temple Cemetery.