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August 6, 2013 Erna Helena Gerlach Anonymous The Tonawanda News The Tonawanda News Tue Aug 06, 2013, 12:19 PM EDT TONAWANDA — Erna Helena (nee Bach) Gerlach went home to our Heavenly Father on August 5, 2013 at the age of 97. Beloved wife of the late Edwin J. Gerlach; devoted mother of Sharon (George) Kleinmann and John (Jeanette) Gerlach; loving grandmother of John (Karen) Kleinmann, Christina Twoey (Michael Carney), Julie (Carl) Doody and Capt. John (Capt. Kelly) Gerlach USAF; loving great-grandmother of Emma Kleinmann, Alicia and Gavin Twoey; sister of the late Magdalene Caner, Otto, Werner and Edmund Bach. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends may visit the LOMBARDO FUNERAL HOME (Northtowns Chapel) 885 Niagara Falls Blvd., near Eggert/Sheridan Dr., on Friday from 4-8 PM. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Christopher's Church, 2660 Niagara Falls Blvd., Tonawanda, on Saturday morning at 9:30 AM. (Please assemble at church.) Interment Mt. Olivet Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations in Erna's name may be made to Niagara Hospice. Visit www.lombardofuneralhome.com for online condolences. - See more at: http://tonawanda-news.com/obituaries/x1981929437/Erna-Helena-Gerlach#sthash.fGSSUGeY.dpuf

Family/Spouse: GERLACH, Edwin J. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. GERLACH, Sharon
2. GERLACH, John

Otto married Sarah about 1909. Sarah was born about 1881 in England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Niagara Gazette - 2/17/1933

NORTH TONAWANDA, Feb. 17.-
Funeral services will be conducted at
2 o'clock Saturday for Herman R.
Bach, 90 years old, at the home of
his granddaughter, Mrs. , George
Krueger, 306 Shartle Place, half an
hour later at St. Peter's church. The
Rev. Ernest Schneppe will officiate
and burial will be in St. Peters' cemetery.

Herman married KRIEDEMAN, Caroline in 1865 in Prussia. Caroline (daughter of WITKOPH) was born in Jan 1840 in Prussia; died on 15 Aug 1915 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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NF Gazette 1915
N. Tonawanda Aug 16 - Mrs Caroline Bach 76 yrs. old, wife of Herman Bach, Sr. of 324 Schenk St, died at the family home yesterday afternoon after a lingering illness. Fred Kriedeman of Niagara Falls was a brother.

ALSO

Tonawanda Evening News Aug 16, 1915
Carolina Bach.
Carolina Bach, seventy five years old, died at 2:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of her son, Herman Bach, Jr. Mrs. Bach's death followed a lingering illness. She was born in Germany and had lived in the Tonawandas during the past twenty-eight years. Besides her husband, Herman Bach, Sr., she is survived by six sons, Otto of Presido, Cal., Fred Bach of Charleston, S. C, Max Bach of Toledo, O., and Herman, Julius and Gustave Bach of North Tonawanda, thirteen grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Theodore Eckelt of North Tonawanda, and two brothers, Fred Kriedemann of North Tonawanda and William Kriedemann of Germany. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the late residence and half an hour later from St. Peter's church on Schenck street. Burial will be in St. Peter's cemetery.

NOTE: She may have either maiden name in Germany - cannot be determined