Arthur married KRAKOMBERGER, Carol A Carol was born on 15 Jul 1945; died on 28 May 1975. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married MEYERS, Mary Patricia on 10 Jan 1942 in Redeemer Lutheran Church, North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY. Mary (daughter of MEYERS, Albert Charles and SUTHERLAND, Marguerite) was born on 23 Feb 1918 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 21 May 2009 in Buffalo, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary P. (nee Meyers) Russ, May 21, 2009. Beloved wife of the late Arthur Russ, Sr.; dearest mother of Arthur (Audrey) Russ, Jr. and Robert (Arthur Page) Russ; devoted grandmother of Laura (Mark) Gigliotti, Kevin (Melissa) Russ, Allison (Michael) Malikowski, Elizabeth (Derek) Mohr, Alexandra (William) Meyerson and six great grandchildren.The family will be present Saturday 2-6 PM at the (Amherst Chapel) AMIGONE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 5200 Sheridan Drive (corner Hopkins Rd). Funeral services will be held privately. Flowers gratefully declined. Please share condolences on-line at www.AMIGONE.com.
Published in the Greater Niagara Newspapers on 5/21/2009

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Niagara Gazette - 5/19/1957

John J. Russ, 82, River Rd.,
Wheatfield, who rose- from the job
of handyman at the Carbor-
undum Co. here to president and
board chairman of N a t i o n a l
Grinding Wheel Co.. North Ton-
awanda. died yesterday (May 28,.
1957) at his home. He had been in
ill health for several months.
Born here Dec. 17. 1874, Mr.
Russ joined Carborundum in 1896
as a laborer and climbed rapidly,
to a managerial position. He is
credited with making many im-.
provements in early g r i n d i ng
wheel manufacture.
He went to Dusseldorf, Germany,
in 1907 to supervise wheel
operations and train new employes
for Carborundum's Ger-
man plant. _ •
Mr. Russ left Carborundum in
1923 to reorganize the National
Grinding Wheel Co. which then
operated in Buffalo. When the
plant was moved to North Tonawanda
in 1929, he was elected
president. He. became chairman
of the company in 1951 and con-
tinued active in management until
his recent illness.
Mr. Russ was a long time leader
in civic affairs in the village
of LaSalle before its incorporation
into the city of Niagara Falls
in 1927. He was a member of
the village board of trustees, president
of the village and a member
of the LaSalle school board.
Mr. Russ was one of the founders
of the Carborundum Employes'
Benefit Assn. in 1898. •
He was predeceased by his
wife, the former Fredericka Mellenthin.
Survivors are Miss Clara
M. Russ. who lived with her father,
Mrs. George P. Eddy, this
city, and three sons, Frederick W.,
John T. and Arthur A. Russ, all
of North Tonawanda.
He is'also survived by a brother,
Peter J. Russ, Detroit: two
sisters, Mrs. Frank H. Taylor,
this city, and Mrs. Harry Walters,
Lake Worth, Fla., seven grandchildren
and 12 great grandchildren.
He was a member of LaSalle
Zion Lutheran Church, now
Grace Lutheran Church;
Funeral services will be held
at the home Friday at 1 p.m. and
at Redeemer Lutheran Church,
Fajcsner and T h o m p s o n Sts.,
North Tonawanda, at 1:30 p.m.
The Rev. H. G. Kleiner, pastor,
of the church, will officiate. Burial
will be in Oakwood Cemetery
here.
The family said contributions
to the DeGraff Memorial Hospital
fund will be acceptable as
tributes.

John married MELLENTHIN, Friedericke Wilhelmine Ernestine on 2 Jun 1898 in Holy Ghost Lutheran Church, Bergholz, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Friedericke (daughter of MELLENTHIN, Friedrich August and RADANT, Caroline Christine) was born on 11 Jul 1875 in Bagemühl, Brandenburg, Prussia; died on 4 Dec 1944 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Niagara Gazette - 1944

Mrs. Friederlcka Russ. 69, of the
River road, town of Wheatfleld, collapsed
and died of a heart attack In
Bennett street, North Tonawanda,
at 8 o'clock last evening. She was
the wife of John J. Russ. president
of the National Grinding Wheel
company, of the Walck road and
Erie avenue, North Tonawanda.
She was returning from a shopping
trip at Niagara Falls and was walking
from the bus in Payne avenue
when she was stricken. She as on
her way to the home of her son,
John T. Russ, 413 Evans street,
North Tonawanda, for dinner.
Bom in Germany.Mrs. Russ had
lived in Niagara Fells since coming
to America st the age of seven, with
the exception of the past two years
during which she and her husband
resided in the River road.
Mr. Russ is in Miami Beach, Florida,
where his wife planned to join
him as soon aa she was able to secure
plane reservations. Mr. Russ in
former years was an official of the
Carborundum company here but
started his own abrasive plant in
North Tonawanda several eyars ago.
Besides her husband and son,
John. Mrs. Russ is survived by two
Other sons, Frederick W. and Arthur
A. Ruse, of North Tonavanda; two
daughters. Clara, at borne, arid Mrs.
George P. Eddy, of Niagara Falls,
six grandchildren and.one great
grandchild.•
Mrs. Ruas was a member of the
Zion Evangelical Lutheran church,
Cayuga drive, this city, and the
Ladies Aid society of. the church.
Funeral services will be held at
the family home in River road with
interment- in Oakwood cemetery.
The time of the rites has not been
fixed pending the arrivad of Mr.
Russ, who is flying here from Flori--
da.

Albert + SUTHERLAND, Marguerite. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]