This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.niagara/1712.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: 23 January 1925 Tonawanda News Christian E. Wendt Passes Away at 68 Christian E. Wendt, sixty-eight years old, died this morning at his home on the Niagara Falls boulevard in the Martinsville section of North Tonawanda. Wendt was prominent at one time in the Republican and Bull Moose ranks in his section of the city. He was born in Martinsville. When a young man he went to Buffalo to live. Returning to North Tonawanda twenty-eight years ago, he continued his residence here until his death. Surviving are two brothers, A. M. Wendt of North Tonawanda and Paul Wendt of Dietrich, Ill., and a sister, Mrs. William Krause of Dietrich. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of his brother, A. M. Wendt, No. 317 Schenk street. Burial will be in the St. Martin's cemetery, Martinsville.