See family photos at father Mathias Heissenberger's memorial.

Aunt Mary's obit from Legacy.com/Buffalo Evening News, orig. dated March 31, 1999:

"Mary (Heissenberger) Aicher
Death Notice

Formerly of Bowmansville, NY, entered into rest March 29, 1999 in Buffalo, NY; wife of the late Otto Aicher; loving mother of Anna (Jim) Schendel of Lockport, NY and Frieda (Gene) Lowery of Akron, NY; sister of Louise Roetzer of Tonawanda, NY and Erwin Heissenberger of Ontario, CAN; also survived by seven grandchildren, several great and great-great-grandchildren. The family will be present on Monday, April 5 from 10AM to 11AM to receive friends in the BERNHARDT FUNERAL HOME, 130 Main St., Akron, where funeral services will immediately follow at 11AM. Family and friends invited to attend. Burial in Transit Rural Cemetery, Bowmansville.

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Mary was the oldest daughter of the family, and her mother relied on her a lot to help look over and care for her siblings when they emigrated to the US from Germany in 1913. Mary was 15 at that time (summer 1913), and in the account of her younger sister Louise (our grandma), she did her share of flirting with some of the sailors aboard the ship on their way to New York NY! Mary was Otto Aicher's 2nd wife, his first, Anna, past away not long after the birth of their daughter Ann Louise (1938). Mary and Otto were married 1939 and about two years later, had daughter Frieda Mary Aicher, who, today, is Freida Lowery, her husband Gene. (See birth announcement pic uploaded here).

I remember a few family picnics out on their farm in Lancaster/Bowmansville, and playing with my 'second' cousins, Heidi and Bonnie, daughters of Frieda and her first husband, Paul Stoldt. Frieda's in Bradenton, FL.

Mary reached nearly 102 years, beat all her siblings in longevity. In later years though, she suffered from glaucoma, I remember her wearing pretty thick glasses to see. Her youngest brother Erwin had a bad case of that too. Mary also suffered perhaps from dementia or at least memory loss, and was living in a nursing home in Buffalo. Her sister (Grandma) Louise visited regularly and I (Chris) went along a time or two. Aunt Mary forgot more recent times but tended to be good with times and events from the 1940s/50s. She also had hearing loss so she and Louise communicated writing back and forth on a note pad. One time I came along to visit, Mary called me Georgie, thinking I was my dad. Grandma said, "Mary, this is Georgie's oldest son!" She laughed, oh my! She always enjoyed a good laugh. We thought it was cool that our dad, George, and she shared the same birthday, Oct. 7.