1. | BREITENBACH, Catherine Carolyn was born on 10 Aug 1907 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 9 Sep 2004 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY; was buried on 13 Sep 2004 in Wheatfield Cemetery, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
9/12/2004 LOCKPORT - Catherine C. Pokelwaldt, a homemaker and a defense worker during World War II, died Thursday in Briody Health Care Facility after a long illness. She was 97.
Mrs. Pokelwaldt was born Catherine Breitenbach in Wheatfield and raised in a farmhouse on the Amherst side of Tonawanda Creek. She lived most of her adult life in Niagara Falls, moving to Lockport at age 90. She had lived in the nursing home for more than a year.
During World War II, she worked as a riveter, assembling airplanes at Bell Aircraft Corp. in Wheatfield.
For most of her life she was a homemaker, enjoying what she called her "fancy work": knitting and crocheting, especially doilies and tablecloths.
Her family said she was a fine baker, specializing in a sour cream cookie recipe handed down from her grandmother. She also enjoyed playing cards.
Her husband of 43 years, Edward, died in 1970.
Survivors include four daughters, Shirley Palmiter of Pendleton, Audrey Smith of Ransomville, Carol Burnsworth of Lockport and Beverly Blaise of Prospect Heights, ILl.; 11 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at noon Monday in Grace Lutheran Church, 736 Cayuga Drive, Niagara Falls. Burial will be in Wheatfield Cemetery.
Catherine married POKELWALDT, Edward Phillip in 1927 in New York. Edward (son of POKELWALDT, Herman Willam and WITTKOPP, Helena Louise) was born on 25 Apr 1906 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; died on 17 Jun 1970 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Jun 1970 in Wheatfield Cemetery, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. POKELWALDT, Carol Ann was born on 26 Apr 1938 in Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 5 Nov 2016.
- 3. POKELWALDT, June Eleanor was born on 4 Jun 1928 in Niagara County, NY; died on 29 Jun 1939 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY.
- 4. POKELWALDT, Shirley Louise was born in Dec 1929 in Niagara County, NY; died on 23 Nov 2013 in Atlanta, Dekalb County, GA.
- 5. POKELWALDT, Audrey May was born on 5 Mar 1932 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 11 Dec 2019 in Ransomville, Niagara County, NY.
- 6. POKELWALDT, Beverly Ruth
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