RELATIONSHIP: Grandmother

Rita Romane 🇺🇸 –> Patrick Kanalley 🇺🇸 –> Craig Kanalley 🇺🇸

FATHER: Eric Romane
MOTHER: Margaret Hilburger

BORN: 21 Sep 1933 Binghamton, Broome, NY, USA¹
BAPTIZED: 8 Oct 1933 St. Thomas Aquinas, Binghamton, Broome, NY, USA¹
GODPARENTS: Edward Hilburger and Hilda Hilburger

RELIGION: Catholic

MARRIED: 13 Jun 1953 St. John the Baptist RC Church, Buffalo, Erie, NY, USA²
HUSBAND: Kenneth Kanalley, son of Wallace Kanalley & Mildred McQuaid

PHOTOS:

INTERESTING NOTES: She was born in Binghamton to Buffalo-born parents, but they moved back to Buffalo not long after. By the time of the 1940 Census, Rita was living at 570 Adams St. in Buffalo with her parents & maternal grandparents, a residence that was in the Hilburger family for multiple generations.

She was an only child and a standout student throughout her years in school. Her parents opened a delicatessen on Niagara Street in Buffalo called Romane‘s, and the Kanalley family didn’t live far away and sometimes stopped by. One of the Kanalley kids, Ken, one year older than her, ended up becoming her future husband.

Rita‘s parents bought a cottage in Java Lake, Wyoming County, in the late 1950s, following a similar purchase by her Aunt Hilda and Uncle Bill Terray in 1955. Their cottages weren’t far apart and they spent many summers together at Java Lake for family gatherings for decades to come.

She loved family time, hosting & entertaining, playing cards, and was a devout Catholic. Christmas was one of her favorite holidays, and she had all kinds of decorations & dozens of cassette tapes with Christmas music. She also had a fondness for parakeets & had several over the years; she would teach them how to talk.

DIED: 20 Mar 2011 Getzville, Erie, NY, USA, age 77 years old³
BURIED: Mar 2011 Mount Olivet Cemetery, Tonawanda, Erie, NY, USA³

SOURCES

1. United States, New York, Broome, Binghamton – Official Birth Certificate
2. United States, New York, Erie, Buffalo Roman Catholic Church Records, St. John the Baptist
3. Find A Grave, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Tonawanda, Erie, NY, USA – Rita Romane Kanalley Memorial Page

ANCESTORS

PARENTS:
Eric Gottlieb Romane, born 1902 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸, died 1975 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸
Margaret Louise Hilburger, born 1905 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸, died 2000 Wheatfield, NY 🇺🇸

GRANDPARENTS:
Franz August Romanowski, born 1851 Wysoka, West Prussia 🇩🇪, died 1925 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸
Helene Elisabeth Kaisler, born 1870 Peterswalde, East Prussia 🇩🇪, died 1925 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸

Edward Martin Hilburger, born 1880 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸, died 1944 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸
Elizabeth Weber, born 1880 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸, died 1960 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸

GREAT-GRANDPARENTS:
Martin Romanowski, born 1815 Marienfelde, West Prussia 🇩🇪, died 1899 Wysoka, West Prussia 🇩🇪
Anna Bona, born 1820 Wysoka, West Prussia 🇩🇪, died 1910 Wysoka, West Prussia 🇩🇪

August Kaisler, born 1841 East Prussia 🇩🇪, died 1926 Bauthen, West Prussia 🇩🇪
Amalie Nax, born 1845 Ludwigsdorf, East Prussia 🇩🇪, died 1927 Bauthen, West Prussia 🇩🇪

John Baptist Hilburger, born 1854 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸, died 1929 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸
Anna Maria Karg, born 1855 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸, died 1932 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸

Jacob Nicolaus Weber, born 1840 Bierbach, Saarland 🇩🇪, died 1919 Lancaster, NY 🇺🇸
Catharina Gräbel, born 1846, Bierbach, Saarland 🇩🇪, died 1929 Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸

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