Grandparents Deleo and Zimmer
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Francis (Frank) Deleo, my grandfather.
10/19/1896 - 8/6/1959
Born in New York City, he moved to Rochester NY and worked at Taylor Instruments in their thermometer department, where he met and married Minnie Smith (Long) on 4/7/1921 in St. Mary's Rectory, Rochester NY. They had two children, Mildred (Marchak) and Gertrude (Zimmer).
Frank had five siblings - Rosie (Demott), Jean (Ellison), Bill, Mike, and Robert who, according to family, died in 1928 three days after a mirror fell from the wall and predicted his death.
Frank's parents were Angelo, who was born in Italy, and Pauline Locke, German born. Frank died of a coronary occlusion in 1959. Frank is buried in the Hillside Cemetery in Holley NY, Orleans County.
Grandparents Minnie and Frank Deleo with their grandson Wayne.
Maude Zimmer - grandmother. Born in Iowa, Maude moved to Albert St, in Rochester NY and raised eight children - Bob, Alice, Thelma, Minnie, George (Huck), Russel, Sissy and Fred.
Her husband William died in May of 1946, two months prior to Bob and Gert Deleo's wedding.
Minnie Deleo, grandmother
1898 - 1997
Minnie's mother died when she was two-years-old. Her father, unable to raise five children on his own, divided up his five daughters, Minnie, Anna (Halligan), Mae (Papka), Berta (Bohm) and Lorinda (Bricks) and sent them to live with different relatives. Minnie lived with her Great Aunt Laurel and Uncle Rudolph (Christine Long's son) who lived at the farmhouse Orleans Country, NY.
In 1939, after the deaths of Aunt Laurel and Uncle Rudolph, Frank, to cover the cost of the taxes, borrowed $1500 from his boss, Gus Bauershmit. Minnie and Frank bought back "the farm" and paid back their debt to Mr. Bauershmit in weekly installments. Mildred and Gertrude, their two daughters, were born at the farmhouse.
After Frank died, Minnie married Bill McAvinney.