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- Buffalo News
George W. Pankow Jr., operator of the former Pumpkin Village on Nash Road, died Thursday in Kenmore Mercy Hospital after a long illness. He was 64.
Mr. Pankow was born in North Tonawanda and graduated from North Tonawanda High School.
He worked at Ashland Oil Co. and the Chevrolet engine plant in the Town of Tonawanda, but his hobby was growing pumpkins.
Mr. Pankow's father founded Pumpkin Village, a seasonal attraction every fall, on Niagara Falls Boulevard. After his father died in 1981, Mr. Pankow moved it to Nash Road, where it continued into the 1990s.
In the early 1980s, Mr. Pankow and his father also operated the first hydroponic greenhouse to grow tomatoes in Niagara County.
Survivors include his wife of 43 years, the former Katherine J. Vossen; a son, Michael S. of Virginia Beach, Va.; two daughters, Patricia Snider of Chicago and Mary Childs of Orlando, Fla.; a sister, Alice Licht of Wheatfield; and five grandchildren.
Services will be held at 10 A.M. Monday in St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Niagara Falls Boulevard and Ward Road.
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