Lester + STAWICKI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obituary

The family will receive relatives and friends on Tuesday (5-8) at the Cooper Funeral Home, 215 West Center Street, Medina.

Lester + Dorothy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 1/31/1958

LYNDONVILLE - A retired
farmer, William A. Balschmiter,
75, died this morning (Jan. 31,
1968) in Medina Memorial Hospi-
tal following a week's illness. He
had resided in this vicinnity for 43
years since coming to America
from Germany in 1914.
Born Nov. 15, 1883 to Gruno
Germany, he was the son of the
late Mr. aad Mrs. Carl Balschmi
ter aad was married to the former
Martha Kopipzki, of Barker,
March 25, 1914.
Mr. Balschmiter was a member
of the Medina Trinity Lutheran
Church.
Survivors, besides his wife, include
three sons. Carl of Lyndon
ville; William P. of Hilton and
Lester of Medina; three daughters.
Mrs. Herbert Church, Lockhaven.
Pa., Mrs. Carl Ivisen. Pitts
ford, and Mrs. Albert Rook, Spen
cerport, one brother, Ernst
Balschmiter, Berlin, Germany;
one sister. Mrs. Helen Benz, Gruno.
Germany and 15 grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday at 3 at the Smythe Funeral
Home with the Rev. Herman
Llndke, Shelby Center, officiating.
Burial will be to Lynhaven Cemetery.

William married KOPITZKI, Martha E on 25 Mar 1914. Martha (daughter of KOPITZKI, Frederick and Emelia) was born on 21 Oct 1893 in Germany; died on 10 Aug 1979 in Medina, Orleans County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Medina NY Daily Register Journal - 8/13/1979

Mrs. Martha E. Balschmiter,
85, formerly of the North
Lyndonville Road, Lyndonville,
died Friday evening at the
Orchard Manor Nursing Home
where she had been a patient.
Mrs. Balschmiter was born
October 21, 1893 in Germany,
the daughter of the late
Frederick and Emelia
Kopitzki.
She came to the United States
in 1914, where she lived in
Barker, N.Y. unitl 1920 when
she moved to the Town of Yates
where she and her husband,
William Balschmiter engaged
in farming.
She was a member of the
Trinity Lutheran Church of
Medina. She had worked at
various canning companies in
the area, among them Lyn-
donville Canning Co. until her
retirement in 1960.
Her husband, William
Balschmiter died in 1958.
She is survived by five
children, Mrs. Herbert (Freda)
Church of Mechanicsburg, Pa.,
William Balschmiter of Hilton,
Mrs. Charles (Gertrude) Ivison
of Indian Rocks Beach, Fla.,
Mrs. Albert (Esther) Rook of
Spencerport, and Lester E.
Balschmiter of Medina. One
son, Carl Balschmiter died in
1976.
She is also survived by 17
grandchildren; 15 great-
greandchildren; two brothers,
Frederick Kopitzki of Shelby
and Paul Kopitzki of Albion; a
suiter, Mrs. Glenwood (Frieda)
Stephens of Lockport, and
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
this afternoon at 3 p.m. at the
Barnes-Tuttle Funeral Home,
236 Pearl St., Medina. Of-
ficiating at the service were th e
Rev. Gerald J. Grimm of
Middleport, and the Rev.
Russell Ivison of Missouri, a
grandson of Mrs. Balschmiter.
Burial was in Lynhaven
Cemetery, Lyndonville.
Memorials may be made to
the Organ Fund of the Trinity
Lutheran Church of Medina.