I served in the U.S. Navy from Dec 1943 to May 1946 and was honorably discharged at Lio Beach, N.Y. as a signalman 3/c. I worked several jobs before being hired as a apprentice cabinet-maker in August 1947 at Tradition House. I spent 25 years there building everything from furniture to boats but mainly made and installed church furnishings all over western N.Y. and as far as Cape Cod, Mass.and Baltimore, MD. I left Tradition House in 1972 on a Friday and went to work for Buffalo Mill and Cabinet on the following Monday. I worked there almost 12 years building Formica cabinets for hotels, hospitals, and schools. I retired from there on a disability pension in 1983; I had severed some fingers on my hand on a table saw. I married Jane Frances Morlock, daughter of Edward Morlock and Frances Fiebalkorn on August 2, 1947. We had two sons Douglas Eugene and Robert Richard. My hobbies were fishing, boating, travel, and the study of the American Indian, U.S. Naval History, and our grandkids. We lived in our house in Cowlesville for almost 23 years. The above autobiography is primarily written by Bob on February 14, 1991, with a couple minor additions/corrections plus the pictures inserted by me: Bernard William Patz. Bob passed at the Erie County Nursing Home on June 27, 2004, of breathing problems and donated his body to science. His ashes will be spread by his sons on his favorite fishing lake in Canada. |
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