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- RUTH E. POERSCHKE, EX-NIAGARA, WHEATFIELD OFFICIAL
The Buffalo News - Wednesday, October 16, 1996
Ruth E. Poerschke, 87, of North Tonawanda, former Niagara County deputy commissioner of jurors, died Tuesday (Oct. 15, 1996) in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst, after a brief illness. The former Ruth E. Heppner and her husband, Bernhardt O. Poerschke, managed the Coffee Shop & Snack Bar at the Airport Bowling Lanes in Cheektowaga in the early 1950s. Her husband died in 1985. They had been married 61 years. A native of Wheatfield, she served as deputy town clerk for the Town of Wheatfield from 1968 to 1971 and as deputy commissioner of jurors from 1973 to 1978. She was a charter member and past president of the Town of Wheatfield Republican Club and the Wheatfield Senior Citizens and was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church. She also was a charter member and past president of the Adams Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary. Survivors include two sons, Robert W. of Williamsville and Richard R. of Wheatfield; four sisters, Myrtle Werth of Bergholz, Margaret Verch of North Tonawanda and Edna Chace and Gloria Dunn, both of Hallandale, Fla.; four grandchildren; and five great grandchildren. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in Spallino-Amigone Funeral Home, 1300 Pine Ave., Niagara Falls. Burial will be in St. Matthew Cemetery, Wheatfield.
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