2. | GESCHWENDER, Frank was born about 1891 in PA (son of GESCHWENDER, Elmer Ellsworth and BARR, Ella Louise); died on 24 Nov 1939 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
Niagara Gazette - 11/25/1939
Stricken while at work at the Niagara Alkali company plant yesterday afternoon, Frank Geschwender, 48 years ol, 332 Seventy-first street, a millwright, died almost immediately. He was stricken while walking through the freight yard of the plant.
Coroner Harry R. Emes, who was summoned, pronounced death due to natural causes. The body was taken to the Quinn and Reardon funeral home.
Geschwender, who was born in Pennsylvania, had worked at the Alkali plant for the last 18 years. He came to Niagara Falls 20 years ago. He is survived by his wife, Martha; five sons ,James, Franklin, Wiliam, Ernest and Vernon Geschwender, al of this city' two daughters, Mrs. Isabella Ferrerio and Audrey Geschwender, of this city; four brothers, Irwin, Milo and Elmer, of this city, and Harold Geschwender, of Louisiana; five sisters, Mrs. Grace Owens, Louisiana, Mrs. Bernice Moyer, Mrs. Irene Synder and Mrs. Nancy Brent, all of Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Ella Franell, of this city. His mother, Mrs. Ella B. Geschwender, of Pennsylvania, also survives.
Funeral services will be held from the home Monday at 2:30 p.m. with the Rev. Roy Cooley officiating. Interment will be in Oakwood cemetery.
Frank married CLARKSON, Martha Isabell on 24 Mar 1913 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Martha (daughter of CLARKSON, James and DRUMMOND, Isabella) was born on 10 Feb 1896 in Brant, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada; died on 1 Mar 1988 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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