Family/Spouse: GROMLOVITS, Harold. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 11/12/1954

TONAWANDA, Nov. 12 Wendel
Zitzka, 68, of 13 Glenwood Ave.
died yesterday in DcGraff Memorial
Hospital after a short illness.
He was a member pf St.
Francis Church and the Holy Name
Society of the church.
He is survived by three sons,
Wendel Jr., George and Donald;
four daughters. Mrs. Joseph Mayer,
Mrs. James Butler, Mrs. Harold
Gromlovits and Mrs. Leonard
Foels, all of this city.
Prayers will be said at 8:45 Monday
morning in the Hamp Funeral
Home, followed by a Requiem
Mass at 9:15 in St. Francis' church.
Interment will be in Mt. Olivet
cemetery

Wendell married BAUMGARTNER, Barbara about 1908. Barbara (daughter of Anna) was born about 1890 in Austria-Hungary; died on 31 Dec 1953 in Degraff Memorial Hospital, North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 1/3/1954

ZITZKA - Mrs. Barbara Zitzka,
63, of 13 Glenwood Ave., Tonawanda,
d i e d Thursday morning,
Dec. 31, 1953 in DeGraff Memorial
Hospital after a prolonged
illness. Mrs. Zitzka was born in
Austria, Hungary and had resided
in Tonawanda for the past 43
years. Mrs. Zitzka was a member
of St. Francis Church and the Rosary
Society of the church. Survived
by her husband, Wendell;
four daughters, Mrs. Joseph Mayer,
Mrs. James Butler, Mrs. Harold
Gromlovits and Mrs. Leonard
Foels; three sons, Wendell Jr.,
George and Donald; 13 grandchildren;
a brother, Anton Baumgartner;
and three sisters, Mrs. Fred
Keller, Mrs. Martin Zipp, all ' of
the Tonawandas, and Mrs. Michael
Peterman of Whittier, Calif.
Friends may call at the Hamp
Funeral Home, 37 Adam St., Tonawanda,
after noon on Friday,
were services will be Monday at
830 a.m. and at 9 a.m. in St.
Francis Church. The Rev.„ John
A. Weismantel will officiate.
Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.