Notes:

Hamburg NY Sun - 5/16/1996

A Memorial Service is scheduled
for May 18 at 12:30 p.m. at St.
John's Lutheran Church, Depew for
Betty J. Ehlenfield, 78, formerly of
Hamburg, who died in Florida on
Thursday, April 18,1996.
Mrs. Ehlenfield is survived by her
daughter, Linda (Norman) Foley;
and two grandchildren and a greatgrandchild.
The former Betty Benzel, she was
predeceased by her husband, Russell
Ehlenfield.
Funeral arrangements were made
through the Donald M. Demmerley
Funeral Home and burial is in Acacia
Park Cemetery, North
Tonawanda.
Memorials in her name may be
made to St. John's Lutheran Church.

Family/Spouse: EHLENFIELD, Russell. Russell (son of EHLENFIELD, Edwin G and Annie) was born on 17 Aug 1917 in New York; died in Dec 1979 in Buffalo, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. EHLENFIELD, Linda

Frank married CROTTY, May F about 1910. May (daughter of CROTTY, John C and Katherine G) was born about 1888 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Catherine about 1893. Catherine was born in Feb 1865 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Katherine G about 1883. Katherine was born about 1865 in Ireland; died on 5 Aug 1931 in Buffalo, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 2/9/1932

Death has laid a heavy hand on the
Ellman and Crotty families, this clty,
the last six months. Yesterday,
Mrs. Anna S. Ellman, 31 year
old, wife of Harold J. Ellman and
mother of year-old John H. Ellman,
609 Elmwood avenue, died in Mt. St.
Mary's hospital, after an illness of 12
days.
Mrs. Ellman was a member of the
lady Trainmen, an auxiliary of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
Until recently, when she and her husband
moved from the north end of the
city to the Elmwood avenue house, she
was a member of the Sacred Heart
church; at the time of her death she
was enrolled as a member of St. Mary's
of the Cataract church. She and her
husband were extraordinarily devoted to
one another and her death has come
as a particularly cruel blows.
Mrs. Ellman's mother, Mrs. Catherine
Crotty, was killed In an automobile
collision on the Niagara Falls-Buffalo
boulevard on August 5. She died within
a few hours of the accident.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ellman will
be held from the family home on
Thursday morning at 8:30 o'clock and
from St. Mary's church at 9 o'clock.
Interment will be in St. Mary's cemetery.
She Is survived by her husband,
Harold J. Ellman; a son, John H.;
two brothers, Timothy J. and Peter J.
Crotty, of this city; three sisters, Mrs.
Frank Benzel and Mrs. Burry. of Buf-
Ifalo, and Mrs. Joseph S. Amann, of
Youngstown, Ohio.

ALSO

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal

A county court Jury this morning
upheld the will of Katherine G.
Crotty, Niagara Falls, who died
August 9 in Buffalo, leaving the bulk
of an estate of $4,300 real and
$222.84 personal property, to a
daughter, Helen V. Curry, Buffalo.
Although other children had
sought to break the will on the
grounds that Mrs. Curry exerted undue
influence on her mother, no
one appeared in court this morning
to contest it. The action went
by default and the jurors were Instructed
by County Judge Gold as
to what their verdict should be.
Immediately after the trial the
court admitted the will to probate
and Issued letters testamentary to
Mrs. Curry and Gervase Rhoney,
the latter a Niagara Falls attorney.
The will left $100 to a son, Timothy
J. Crotty, Niagara Falls and $1 each
to three daughters and a son, Anna
Ellman and Peter J. Crotty, Niagara
Palls, Elizabeth Amann of
Youngstown, Ohio, and Mary
Benzel, Buffalo. The residue was
bequeathed to Mrs. Curry.

Christ + Louisa. Louisa was born about 1848 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]