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 1905 - 1992 (86 years)
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| Name |
REICH, Edward |
| Born |
9 Nov 1905 |
Buffalo, Erie Co., New York  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
26 Apr 1992 |
Buffalo, Erie Co., New York [1] |
| Buried |
Lackawanna, Erie Co., New York |
| Person ID |
I754 |
Reich |
| Last Modified |
3 Dec 2017 |
| Father |
REICH, August Edward, b. 1 Mar 1871, Fabianki, Lipno, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland , d. 9 Jun 1953, New York (Age 82 years) |
| Mother |
LEICHNITZ, Pauline, b. Abt 22 Sep 1873, Leg Witoswszyn Stewken, South of Torun, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland , d. 21 May 1960, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York (Age ~ 86 years) |
| Family ID |
F416 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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CRONIN, Johanna Cecilia (Joan or Tucky), b. 18 Mar 1907, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York , d. 15 Oct 1974, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York (Age 67 years) |
| Married |
12 May 1934 |
Saint Agatha's Rectory on Mystic Street in Buffalo, Erie Co., New York |
- Edward Reich spent his childhood at 207 Beacon Street in Buffalo. Later, (by 1930), the Reich family moved to 1612 Triangle Street (later named South Park Avenue).
Ed and Joan were married at the rectory of St. Agatha's on Mystic Street in South Buffalo, with Father McQuire officiating. Father McQuire was later made a Monsignor.
Johanna Cronin was called Johny by her father Richard, and was called Tucky or Joan by others. Joan worked for three years for Deco Restaurants, and then for Mercy Hospital, in Buffalo.
Edward got his first job during the depression years when president Franklin D. Roosevelt created jobs with the WPA project. Ed made $15 a week. He gave $10 of his salary to his mother and then had $5 left for himself. He was able to get along fairly well on the $5. Later, his brother Carl (Charlie) gave him a job as supervisor at the Siegfried Construction Company. Ed then worked part time as a telephone operator at Railway Express, Chevrolet Motor Company for three years under a boss named George Minton.
After leaving Chevrolet, Edward was hired as a tax spitter at Ford Motor Company on Fuhrman Boulevard in Buffalo. He spent a total of 38 years at Ford, mostly working in the assembly line. After Ford shut down their Buffalo plant, in March, 1958, Ed was transferred to Lorain, Ohio. Rather than move his family, he travelled back and forth between Buffalo and Lorain for 8 years to continue to work for Ford until retirement. Eventually, he became a truck inspector for Ford, and retired in January, 1966. On his last day of work at Ford, a Friday, the company had a small party, and presented Ed with a watch and plague which reads "For his many years of LOYAL SERVICE". NOTE: His son, John, currently has this plague.
The only time Ed missed work at Ford was a six week period that he suffered severely from back pain due to sciatica nerve. Finally, his brother-in-law, Bill Cronin, forced him to go to a black chiropractor (at that time chiropractors were thought to be practicing medicine illegally), who cured him in a week.
In later years, when Edward was hospitalized for heart failure at Our Lady of Victory Hospital in Lackawanna, New York, he was reacquainted with his former boss, George Minton. George was also a patient on OLV, just a few doors away from Ed.
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| Children |
| | 1. REICH, Paula Mary, b. 18 Jun 1935, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York , d. 12 Apr 2012, Tempe, Maricopa Co., Arizona (Age 76 years) |
| | 2. REICH, Richard Edward (Dick), b. 28 Jun 1937, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York , d. 1 Jan 2022, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York (Age 84 years) |
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| | 4. REICH, John Joseph, b. 4 Sep 1945, Erie Co., New York , d. 8 Feb 2012, Mercy Hospital at 565 Abbott Road, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York (Age 66 years) |
| | 5. REICH, William Dennis Joseph, b. 13 Sep 1946, New York , d. 31 Dec 2018, Massachusetts (Age 72 years) |
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| Last Modified |
3 Dec 2017 |
| Family ID |
F104 |
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