BREITENBACH, Catherine Carolyn
1907 - 2004 (97 years)-
Name BREITENBACH, Catherine Carolyn Birth 10 Aug 1907 Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY 
Gender Female Death 9 Sep 2004 Lockport, Niagara County, NY Burial 13 Sep 2004 Wheatfield Cemetery, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY Person ID I28812 Laur from Germany Last Modified 20 Jul 2020
Father BREITENBACH, Phillip, b. Sep 1872, Germany d. 13 Jun 1951, North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY (Age 78 years) Mother BEHM, Augusta L, b. 4 Jun 1877, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY d. Yes, date unknown Marriage 1896 New York Family ID F9755 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family POKELWALDT, Edward Phillip, b. 25 Apr 1906, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY d. 17 Jun 1970, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY (Age 64 years) Marriage 1927 New York Children 1. POKELWALDT, Carol Ann, b. 26 Apr 1938, Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY d. 5 Nov 2016 (Age 78 years)2. POKELWALDT, June Eleanor, b. 4 Jun 1928, Niagara County, NY d. 29 Jun 1939, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY (Age 11 years)3. POKELWALDT, Shirley Louise, b. Dec 1929, Niagara County, NY d. 23 Nov 2013, Atlanta, Dekalb County, GA (Age 83 years)4. POKELWALDT, Audrey May, b. 5 Mar 1932, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY d. 11 Dec 2019, Ransomville, Niagara County, NY (Age 87 years)5. POKELWALDT, Beverly Ruth Family ID F10677 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 18 Oct 2025
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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.
- 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.