Helen M. Dresing

b. 7 January 1897, d. 28 December 1967
  • Helen M. Dresing was born on 7 January 1897.
  • The following appeared on 24 August 1921 in the Buffalo Courier: (Marriage Licenses) Paul C. Berth, No. 67 Blaine avenue -- Helen M. Dresing, No. 503 East Ferry street.
  • She married Paul Christopher Borth, son of John Christian Frederick Borth and Lulu Franziska Sipp, in August 1921.
  • She married Howard Joseph Lommer.
  • The following appeared on 6 April 1946 in the Buffalo Courier-Express: Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. F. Dresing, 503 East Ferry St., will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with a dinner given by friends and relatives today at Hotel Markeen. Mr. Dresing and his wife, the former Emma Hammer, were married on April 8, 1896, in Buffalo, where both were born. They have two daughter,s Miss Charlotte M. Dresing and Mrs. Howard Lommer.
         Mr. and Mrs. Dresing attend Grace Lutheran Church, Rose and Carlton. He worked as a machinist for the Buffalo Pitts Co. and Howard Iron Works, and was an attendant at the Erie County home at Alden until his retirement. In 1906, he was a member of the State Assembly and in 1917 was on the Erie County Board of Supervision.
  • Helen M. Dresing became a widow at the 1 April 1951 death of her husband Howard Joseph Lommer.
  • The following appeared on 3 April 1951 in the Buffalo Courier-Express: Howard J. Lommer, 55, of 451 Mt. Vernon Rd., Snyder, a foreman in the electrical maintenance department of the National Aniline Division of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., died Sunday at Buffalo General Hospital. He had been ill five months.
         Mr. Lommer was born in Buffalo, August 3, 1895, and attended school here. He lived at 82 Schauf Ave. for 20 years and moved to Snyder last January.
         He had been employed by National Aniline for 30 years. Mr. Lommer was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Atonement on Northland Ave.
         Surviving are his wife, the former Helen M. Dresing; a son, Harold G. Lommer; a daughter, Mrs. William Pippine; a sister, Mrs. Ira Maloney, and four grandchildren.
         Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Leo Sauer New Funeral Home, 1933 Kensington Ave. The Rev. Edward G. Goetz, pastor of the Church of the Atonement, will officiate. Burial will be in Buffalo Cemetery, Pine Hill.
  • Helen M. Dresing died on 28 December 1967 at age 70.
  • She was interred at Buffalo Cemetery, Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York.
  • The following appeared in The Hamburg Sun: Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the W. L. Froehley Funeral Home in Lake St. for Mrs. Helen M. Lommer of Chapman Pkwy, who died Dec. 28 in her 71st year. The Rev. Ronald E. Meyer, pastor of All Saints Lutheran Church, officiated with burial in Buffalo Cemetery.
         Mrs. Lommer was the wife of the late Howard J. Lommer. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. William E. Pippine, with whom she made her home, a son, Howard G. Lommer, four grandchildren, and a sister, Charlotte M. Dresing.
  • The following appeared on 10 May 1973 in The Hamburg Sun: Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in Trinity Episcopal Church with the Rev. George C. Ruof, rector, officiating, for Miss Charlotte M. Dresing of Buffalo who died May 3.Burial was in Buffalo Cemetery, Cheektowaga.
         Miss Dresing leaves a niece, Mrs. William Pippine of Hamburg and was a sister of the late Mrs. Helen OLommer and the daughter of the late Louis and Emma Dresing.
  • Last Edited: 2 Nov 2013

Family 1: Paul Christopher Borth b. 29 January 1900, d. 20 May 1977

Family 2: Howard Joseph Lommer b. 3 August 1895, d. 1 April 1951