Notes:

Hamburg NY Sun - 9/41980

Memorial services were
conducted last Saturday in the
W.L. Froehley Funeral Home by
the Rev. Roger P. Horton, pastor of
St. James United Church of Christ
for Dr. Howard F. Bremer of King
Arthur Court Apartments, a
retired college professor, who died
Aug. 26 in his 73rd year.
Dr. Bremer, professor emeritus of
history at Briarcliff College,
Briarcliff Manor, was a social
studies graduate of Fredonia State
College and received his masters
degree from the University of
Buffalo and his doctorate in history
from the University of Rochester.
A World War II Army tank
corps captain, he saw combat in the
European Theator receiving the
Bronze Star with Oak Leaf clusters
and the Purple Heart.
Surviving are his wife the former
Helene Grossman, descendent of an
old Hamburg family, a daughter,
Mrs. Joseph Cilberti of Amherst,
two brothers, Norman E. Bremer of
Ithaca and Lloyd C. Bremer of
Nyack and a granddaughter,
Christine Cilberti.

Family/Spouse: GRESSMAN, Helene. Helene was born on 15 Aug 1911; died in Oct 1995 in Hamburg, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. BREMER

William married GELLENTHIEN, Caroline F in 1898 in New York. Caroline (daughter of GELLENTHIEN, Ferdinand and Bertha) was born in 1875 in Buffalo, Erie County, NY; died on 20 Mar 1957 in Ossening, Westchester County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lakeshore NY News and Times - 3/28/1957

Mrs. Caroline P. Bremer, wife
of William J. Bremer died
Wednesday afternoon, March, 20
in Ossening after a long illness.
A native of Buffalo, she was
82 years old and had spent
most iof her life in Dunkirk and
lived in Sheridan. For the past
four years she had resided with
her :son in Ossening.
Mrs. Bremer was a member of
Grace Lutheran Church of Dunkirk
and True Union Rebekah
lodge in Sheridan.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by three sons, Howard
F. Bremer, of Ossining, Norman
C. Bremer of Ithaca and Lloyd
W. Bremer of Nyack; a sister,
Mrs. T. Graiban of Niagara
Falls: three grandchildren and
several nieces and nephews

Ferdinand + Bertha. Bertha was born in 1843 in Prussia; died in 1925 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]