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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 9/2/2967
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Arenz
of 292 Delaware St., Tonawanda,
will be honored on their
golden wedding anniversary tomorrow.
Hosts of a special dinner party
at the Downtowner Motor Inn
will be sons, Walter and David,
and their wives.
Mr. Arenz and the former Carrie
B. Lindemann were married
Sept. 3,1917, in First Presbyterian
Church, Syracuse, N.Y., by
the Rev. David R. Jones.
Their honor attendants were
Mrs. Oscar R. Clayton, who will
arrive from Syracuse to attend
the party, and the late Dr. Clayton.
Mr. and Mrs. Arenz have been
lifelong residents of the Tonawandas
except for two short periods
when they lived in Newark,
N.J. and Harbor Springs, Mich.
Mr. Arenz was a shipbuilder
during World War I, interior decorator
in Harbor Springs, employe
of Roy Arenz Motors in
North Tonawanda, and upon retirement
in 1959, had worked
many years in the service sales
department of Twin City Auto
Co., Buffalo.
Mrs. Arenz is an accomplished
organist and was organist-choir
director of the Broad Street Baptist
Church many years.
They take great pride in their
home, which is over 100 years
old and have done all the remodeling
work inside.
Great enthusiasts of water,
they do much boating on the Niagara
River and Erie Canal in
a cruiser.
Mr. Arenz has made dozens
of beautiful needlepoint articles,
"while watching television in the
winter," including five organ
bench covers. Mrs. Arenz knits
for her family.
Each year, they travel to
Connecticut to visit David and
his family in Milford. They also
have taken tripe to Florida, California
and Oregon.
Walter resides in Kenmore.
They also have two grandchildren,
David Arenz and Kathleen
Ciesielski, and one great-granddaughter,
Lynn Marie Ciesielski.
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