Aunt Martha was a kind and happy person. She was a hairdresser, I enjoyed often visits to her apt. with her sister-in-law (my paternal grandmother) Louise Roetzer; I remember her red hair, white pearls and 'old lady' perfume (hey, I was in high school!)
In her younger years, she was known as Miss Curtis Wright, for the aircraft manufacturer in Buffalo for which she worked, and at which she met her future husband, chiropractor Joseph Roetzer, brother to my paternal grandfather, George Roetzer. They had a home in Miami for some years.
She lost her battle with lymphoma at Deaconess hospital in Buffalo, 1979. The obit states her deceased husband Joseph passed April 1963 but Mt Calvary records for him state April 1962, grandma was off a year.
Only today (10/29/15) did I search Forest Lawn for 'Roetzer' and found her record, I knew she was not at Mount Calvary with husband Joe. I'd thought it was possible she was buried near her parents back in Clymer PA who survived her at her DOD (they are since deceased in the mid 80s), as did her son Wayne John Roetzer, until his untimely passing in 1990, likely of complications from HIV, in LA/Riverside CA. Martha and Joe married abt. 1943/4 as son Wayne born 1945.
In her younger years, she was known as Miss Curtis Wright, for the aircraft manufacturer in Buffalo for which she worked, and at which she met her future husband, chiropractor Joseph Roetzer, brother to my paternal grandfather, George Roetzer. They had a home in Miami for some years.
She lost her battle with lymphoma at Deaconess hospital in Buffalo, 1979. The obit states her deceased husband Joseph passed April 1963 but Mt Calvary records for him state April 1962, grandma was off a year.
Only today (10/29/15) did I search Forest Lawn for 'Roetzer' and found her record, I knew she was not at Mount Calvary with husband Joe. I'd thought it was possible she was buried near her parents back in Clymer PA who survived her at her DOD (they are since deceased in the mid 80s), as did her son Wayne John Roetzer, until his untimely passing in 1990, likely of complications from HIV, in LA/Riverside CA. Martha and Joe married abt. 1943/4 as son Wayne born 1945.
Aunt Martha was a kind and happy person. She was a hairdresser, I enjoyed often visits to her apt. with her sister-in-law (my paternal grandmother) Louise Roetzer; I remember her red hair, white pearls and 'old lady' perfume (hey, I was in high school!)
In her younger years, she was known as Miss Curtis Wright, for the aircraft manufacturer in Buffalo for which she worked, and at which she met her future husband, chiropractor Joseph Roetzer, brother to my paternal grandfather, George Roetzer. They had a home in Miami for some years.
She lost her battle with lymphoma at Deaconess hospital in Buffalo, 1979. The obit states her deceased husband Joseph passed April 1963 but Mt Calvary records for him state April 1962, grandma was off a year.
Only today (10/29/15) did I search Forest Lawn for 'Roetzer' and found her record, I knew she was not at Mount Calvary with husband Joe. I'd thought it was possible she was buried near her parents back in Clymer PA who survived her at her DOD (they are since deceased in the mid 80s), as did her son Wayne John Roetzer, until his untimely passing in 1990, likely of complications from HIV, in LA/Riverside CA. Martha and Joe married abt. 1943/4 as son Wayne born 1945.
In her younger years, she was known as Miss Curtis Wright, for the aircraft manufacturer in Buffalo for which she worked, and at which she met her future husband, chiropractor Joseph Roetzer, brother to my paternal grandfather, George Roetzer. They had a home in Miami for some years.
She lost her battle with lymphoma at Deaconess hospital in Buffalo, 1979. The obit states her deceased husband Joseph passed April 1963 but Mt Calvary records for him state April 1962, grandma was off a year.
Only today (10/29/15) did I search Forest Lawn for 'Roetzer' and found her record, I knew she was not at Mount Calvary with husband Joe. I'd thought it was possible she was buried near her parents back in Clymer PA who survived her at her DOD (they are since deceased in the mid 80s), as did her son Wayne John Roetzer, until his untimely passing in 1990, likely of complications from HIV, in LA/Riverside CA. Martha and Joe married abt. 1943/4 as son Wayne born 1945.
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I was advised by another member it's unlikely Martha has a marker. FLC designation means group burials (no names allowed) in a donated space for cremains that were never picked up after Forest Lawn took over the Crematory.
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