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NORMA P. Fill (nee Pieper) 
Of North Tonawanda, April 16, 2018
Daughter of the late Arthur and Ruth (nee Grawe) Pieper; wife of the late Frank W. Fill; sister of James (Diane) Pieper, sister – in – law of Larene Pieper; predeceased by brother Robert Pieper, sisters Doris Barnes, Betty Pohlman, Ruby Brosius and Marylin Kerlin; also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Friends may call Thursday 6 to 8 PM in the WATTENGEL FUNERAL HOME, 533 Meadow Drive North Tonawanda where Funeral Services will follow at 8 PM. Private Burial Friedens Cemetery. 
Mrs. Fill was a life member of First United Methodist Church in North Tonawanda. Flowers gratefully declined memorials may be made to Frist United Methodist Church, 65 Main St. N. Tonawanda NY 14120.
Online guest registry at www.Wattengel.com 

Norma married FILL, Frank William on 15 Nov 1941 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY. Frank (son of FILL, Frank) was born on 1 Feb 1918 in Tonawanda, Erie County, NY; died on 21 Feb 1992 in Buffalo, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 12/1/1941

The wedding of Miss Norma
Pieper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Pieper of 40 Marion street
to Mr. Frank Fill, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fill of 55
Second avenue was solemnized
Saturday, November 15 at 5
o'clock in the home of the Rev.
Harold F. Hewitt, who performed
the ceremony.
The bride wore a long white,
starched organdy dress, made
with princess style neckline and
a finger tip veil. Her shower
bouquet was of white roses.
Miss Mary Russell was bridesmaid
and Miss Ruby Pieper, siser
of the bride was maid of honor.
Mr. John Parvu, Jr., was best
man and Mr. Clifford Pohlman
was usher.
Following the ceremony a wedding
supper was held for 125
guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Fill are at the
present time making their home
in Oswego, N. Y.

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Arthur A. Pieper - 73, of 180 Miller St., North Tonawanda, Tuesday (Feb 27, 1973) at DeGraff Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness. Mr. Pieper was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church. A former employee of The Wurlitzer Co. for 45 years. He retired in 1965.
He is survived by his wife Ruth (nee Grawe) Pieper; five daughters, Mrs. Kenneth (Doris) Barnes, Mrs. Clifford (Betty) Polhman, Mrs. Frank (Norma) Fill, Mrs. Franklin (Ruby) Brosius and Mrs. Marilyn Brosius; two sons Robert R. and James J. Pieper; 25 grandchildren; two sisters Mrs. Louise Lee of North Tonawanda and Mrs. Marie Heidenfeldt.
The family will receive friends at the Fretthold Funeral Home, Inc., 1241 Oliver St., at Ward Rd., North Tonawanda for 7 to 9 p.m. this evening and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Services will be held Friday at 1:30 p.m., the Rev. A.W. Moldenhauer officiating. Interment Friedens Cemetery.
Tonawanda News, Tuesday, February 28, 1973

Arthur married GRAWE, Ruth Ann Ernestine on 21 Apr 1921 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Ruth (daughter of GRAWE, Gustav and PANKOW, Ernestine Wilhelmine Caroline) was born on 1 Jan 1903 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 20 Apr 1994 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ruth A. (nee Grawe) Pieper, age 91, of North Tonawanda, Wednesday (April 20, 1994) in DeGraff Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Pieper was a lifelong resident of North Tonawanda, a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church and the North Tonawanda Senior Citizens. She was the wife of the late Arthur A. Pieper who died in 1973.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Clifford (Betty Jane) Pohlman, Mrs. Norma Fill and Mrs. Franklin (Ruby) Brosius; a son James J. (Diane) Pieper, all of North Tonawanda; twenty-five grandchildren, forty-four great grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren; also survived by many nieces and nephews. She was the mother of the late Doris Barnes, Marylin Kerlin and Robert Pieper.
Friends may call at the Feretthold Funeral Home, Inc., 1241 Oliver St. at Ward Rd., North Tonawanda, this evening from 7-9 and Friday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11:00 a.m. from St. Matthew Lutheran Church; the Rev. A.W. Moldenhauer officiating. Interment in Friedens Cemetery. Flowers gratefully declined; memorials may be made to St. Matthew Lutheran Church.

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Buffalo Courier Express
Pieper - March 11, 1932. Wilhelm, husband of the late Bertha Behm: father of Mrs. Fred Schwald, Mrs. Henry Hardy, Arthur, Mrs. Martin Nahr, the late Mrs. Martha Hammond and the late William Pieper, Jr. Funeral from the parlors of Sauer & Holzman, 823 Genesee street. Monday at 2 o'clock. Friends invited.

William married BEHM, Bertha Ernestine Louise on 12 Jul 1896 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Bertha (daughter of BEHM, Christian and WERTH, Christine Dorothea) was born on 2 Feb 1855 in Rothenklempenow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 6 Jul 1923 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 7/6/1923

Mrs. Bertha Pieper, sixty-seven
y e a r s old, died this m o r n i n g at her
home on t h e N i a g a r a ' F a l l s boulevard
a f t e r a l i n g e r i n g ' i l l n e s s , i n d u c e d by a
p a r a l y t i c stroke. Mrs. Pieper was
born in G e r m a n y . During t h e p a s t fift
y - t h r e e y e a r s she r e s i d e d h e r e . Sur
Viving a r e a h u s b a n d , W i l l i am Pieper,.
s i x d a u g h t e r s , Mrs. F r a n k Sasse, Bui
falb, Mrs. William H e i d e n f e l d t , Mrs
W i l l i am S t r a s s b u r g . Mrs. A l b e r t W a rb
low and Mrs. Edward Hardy, North
Tonawanda, and Mrs E d w a r d Doebler.
N o r t h Ridge; two sons, W i l l i am Pan
kow and A r t h u r Pieper, North Tona
w a n d a ; t h i r t y - e i g h t g r a n d c h i l d r e n , one
s i s t e r , Mrs., A u g u s t a Holler, Buffalo
arid two b r o t h e r s , William Behm
North T o n a w a n d a , and C h a f e s Behm
R a n s o m v i l l e . The f u n e r a l will be held
S u n d a y afternoon at 3:30 at the late
r e s i d e n c e and half an hour l a t e r at the
J o h n ' s c h u r c h , St. J o h n s b u r g , Rev
Wa l t e r T h i e m e c k e officiating. Burial
ill be at St. J o h n ' s cemetery, St.
J o h n s b u r g .

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GUSTAVE DRAWE DIES
Aged Town of Wheattleld Resident Passes after Brief Illness.
NORTH TONAWANDA, Oct. 24 - Gustave Drawe, 70 years old, a well known resident of the town of Wheatfield, died at his home in the Nash road this morning, following a brief illness. The deceased was born in Germany, but came to this country at the age of 18 and had lived in the town of Wheatfield since. He is survived by four sons and two daughters, Edward, Herman, and
Benjamin Drawe, and Mrs. Elsie Neumann, of North Tonawanda. Philip Drawe, of Tonawanda, and George and Walter Drawe and Mrs. Ruth Piper, of the town of Wheatfield. Thirty-one grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral serevices will be held, from the home of his son, George, In the Nash road, Friday at 2 p. m., and at 2:30 p. m. from St. John's Evangelical church, St- Johnsburg. Interment will be in St. Johnsburg cemetery.

Gustav married PANKOW, Ernestine Wilhelmine Caroline on 13 Nov 1884 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Ernestine (daughter of PANKOW, Christian Frederick and ELLMAN, Sophia Friedericke) was born on 12 Sep 1862 in Rothenklempenow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 16 Jul 1931 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ernestine Grawe, 68, of the Nash Road, Town of Wheatfield, died this morning at her home. Born in Germany, Mrs. Grawe came to this country and the Town of Wheatfield 62 years ago.
She is survived by her husband, Gustave Grawe, two daughters, Mrs. Charles Neumann of North Tonawanda, and Mrs. Arthur Peiper, town of Wheatfield; six sons, Edmund, George, and Walter, of the town of Wheatfield; Herman and Benjamin of North Tonawanda, and Phillip of Tonawanda. Mrs. Grawe leaves also 35 grandchildren, one great grandchild, three sisters, Mrs. Jacob Kline, town of Wheatfield, Mrs. William Achterburg, town of Pendleton, an Mrs. AIbert Broecker of Pekin.
The funeral will be held Sunday at two o'clock from the late residence and 2:30 from St. John's church, St. Johnsburg, the Rev. Walter Thiemecke officiating. Burial will be in St. Johnsburg cemetery.
The Evening News of the Tonawandas, July 16, 1931.

Friedrich + JERING, Charlotte. Charlotte was born in 1819 in Pomerania, Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christian married WERTH, Christine Dorothea on 5 Nov 1840 in Boock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Christine (daughter of WERTH, Frederick and SAHNOW, Wilhelmine) was born on 5 Nov 1815 in Boock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 24 Jan 1885 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederick + BUSCH, Christiana. Christiana (daughter of BUSCH, Johann) was born on 27 Aug 1827 in Germany; died on 21 Jan 1915 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christian married ELLMAN, Sophia Friedericke about 1849 in Prussia. Sophia (daughter of ELLMAN, Christian and Maria) was born on 16 Nov 1825 in Prussia; died on 9 Dec 1907 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]