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- Medina NY Daily Register Journal - 8/13/1979
Mrs. Martha E. Balschmiter,
85, formerly of the North
Lyndonville Road, Lyndonville,
died Friday evening at the
Orchard Manor Nursing Home
where she had been a patient.
Mrs. Balschmiter was born
October 21, 1893 in Germany,
the daughter of the late
Frederick and Emelia
Kopitzki.
She came to the United States
in 1914, where she lived in
Barker, N.Y. unitl 1920 when
she moved to the Town of Yates
where she and her husband,
William Balschmiter engaged
in farming.
She was a member of the
Trinity Lutheran Church of
Medina. She had worked at
various canning companies in
the area, among them Lyn-
donville Canning Co. until her
retirement in 1960.
Her husband, William
Balschmiter died in 1958.
She is survived by five
children, Mrs. Herbert (Freda)
Church of Mechanicsburg, Pa.,
William Balschmiter of Hilton,
Mrs. Charles (Gertrude) Ivison
of Indian Rocks Beach, Fla.,
Mrs. Albert (Esther) Rook of
Spencerport, and Lester E.
Balschmiter of Medina. One
son, Carl Balschmiter died in
1976.
She is also survived by 17
grandchildren; 15 great-
greandchildren; two brothers,
Frederick Kopitzki of Shelby
and Paul Kopitzki of Albion; a
suiter, Mrs. Glenwood (Frieda)
Stephens of Lockport, and
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
this afternoon at 3 p.m. at the
Barnes-Tuttle Funeral Home,
236 Pearl St., Medina. Of-
ficiating at the service were th e
Rev. Gerald J. Grimm of
Middleport, and the Rev.
Russell Ivison of Missouri, a
grandson of Mrs. Balschmiter.
Burial was in Lynhaven
Cemetery, Lyndonville.
Memorials may be made to
the Organ Fund of the Trinity
Lutheran Church of Medina.
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