12. | WIENKE, Walter Adolf Eduard was born on 25 Aug 1904 in Sanborn, Niagara County, NY (son of WIENKE, Adolph Gustav Albert and HASELEY, Bertha Augusta); died on 5 Nov 1996 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
Buffalo News, The (NY) - November 6, 1996
Walter A. Wienke, 92, of Jagow Road, a Sanborn farmer and businessman, died Tuesday (Nov. 5, 1996) in Mount St. Mary's Hospital, Lewiston.
Born in Sanborn, Wienke lived there most of his life.
He married Frances Ferchen in 1930, and they moved to Ward Road. Twenty-five years later, they built a home on Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, where he operated the 60-acre Wienke Farm with his bother, Clarence.
A pond on the farm allowed the brothers to irrigate all their fruit and vegetable crops, which were highly regarded in the area.
In 1936, the brothers started a greenhouse business, growing flowers and vegetable plants for nurseries.
Wienke was a spokesman for the Market Growers Co-Op and is credited with helping save the Niagara Falls Farmers Market from closing in 1963.
In his younger days, Wienke played the sousaphone in the well-known Gombert Band.
He was a member of Abiding Saviour Lutheran Church in North Tonawanda. He was a former member of Calvary Lutheran Church in Niagara Falls, where he served on the vestry as trustee and president.
He was an exempt member of Sanborn Volunteer Fire Company and a member of the Niagara County Extension Service.
His wife died in 1994.
Wienke is survived by a son, Glenn L. of Sanborn; a sister, Hilda Ferchen of Tucson, AZ.; three granddaughters; and six great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 10:30 A.M. Thursday in Abiding Savior Lutheran Church, Ruie Road and Cambridge Avenue, North Tonawanda. Burial will be in Acacia Park Cemetery, Pendleton
Walter married FERCHEN, Frances Anna on 11 Oct 1930 in Bergholtz, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Frances (daughter of FERCHEN, Johannes Friedrich August and HASELEY, Albertine Regina) was born on 17 Feb 1910 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 18 Nov 1994 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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