CRONIN, Johanna Cecilia (Joan or Tucky)

1907 - 1974  (67 years)

• Name	CRONIN, Johanna Cecilia (Joan or Tucky)  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Born	18 Mar 1907	Buffalo, Erie Co., New York   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Died	15 Oct 1974	Buffalo, Erie Co., New York   [6]
  Buried	Lackawanna, Erie Co., New York
  Person ID	I765	Reich
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2017

  
  

  Father	CRONIN, Richard,   b. 30 Jan 1872, Meenskehy, Cullen, County Cork, Ireland ,   d. 31 Jan 1932, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	LOUGHLIN, Julia Loretta,   b. 24 Jun 1871, Knockduff, Cullen, County Cork, Ireland ,   d. 24 Jun 1946, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York  (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F7	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	REICH, Edward,   b. 9 Nov 1905, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York ,   d. 26 Apr 1992, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York  (Age 86 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.
  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)   3. Living   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)
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2017
  Family ID	F104	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S326] Census US 1910, (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T624, roll 940, Buffalo Ward 1, enumeration district (ED) 9, sheet 4, p. 3150, dwelling 276 South Street (Reliability: 3). [S327] Census NY 1915, (Digital images. n.d.), Buffalo Ward 01, Assembly District 04, Election District 04, p. 31, dwelling 803; (Reliability: 3). [S329] Census US 1920, (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T625, roll 1100, Buffalo Ward 4, Erie, New York, enumeration district (ED) 39, sheet 4A, p. 4751, dwelling 75 (Reliability: 3). [S332] Census NY 1925, (Digital images. n.d.), Election District 04, Assembly District 04, Buffalo Ward 04, Erie, p. 547; (Reliability: 3). [S330] Census US 1930, (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T626, roll 1422, Buffalo, Erie, New York, enumeration district (ED) 10, sheet 5A, p. 456 (Reliability: 3). [S96] U.S. Social Security Death Index.