Tonawanda High School Class of 1963

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Welcome, Classmates to your website. We hope you enjoy what you see here now and will contribute to its growth by sending us ideas, pictures, personal stories and suggestions from time to time. To contact us, just click
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***Our 50th REUNION***
Reservation forms were sent out in April. If you didn't receive one, contact Karen Baldwin Marshall or respond on the website

Friday, July 12, 2013: Informal get-together at Eldredge Club in the evening

Saturday, July 13, 2013: Dinner at Banchetti's Banquet Facility Banchetti.com

Sunday, July 14, 2013: Golden Warriors Picnic 1-6pm at Fireman's Park

***THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU'RE HERE***

Canal Fest starts Sunday, July 14, 2013 canalfest.org
Herschell Carrousel Museum carrouselmuseum.org
The Castle (the old armory) tonawandacastle.com
Riviera Theatre Rivieratheatre.org
Ives Pond
Tonawanda Historical Society tonawandashistory.org
North Tonawanda History Museum nthistorymuseum.org
Benjamin Long Homestead tonawandashistory.org
Clint Small Football Field and Library on Main Street
Vietnam Veterans of America Museum vva77.org
Remington Tavern (Old Remington Rand Building) remingtontavern.com

***PLACES TO STAY WHILE YOU'RE IN TOWN***

Center Way Hotel (Microtel) http://www.newyorklodging.com
Sleep Inn http://www.sleepinn.com/
Holiday Inn http://www.hibuffaloamherst.com/

 

***MORE INFO TO FOLLOW***

Your Reunion Committee:
Joe Armenia, Karen Baldwin (Marshall), Janet Coder (Hickman), Karen Gademski (Armenia), Jackie Herbert, Nancy Koch (Michael), John Kovacs, Bonnie Lefler (Cirrito), Sandy Neuhaus (Schnell), Carolyn Pfanner (Giambra), Joan Roth (Close), Tom Smyers, Donna Wein (Eadie), Louise Youakim (Brandt). If you would like to serve on the committee, please contact Karen Baldwin Marshall at kmarshall5@roadrunner.com

Coming to the Reunion at Eldredge (Friday)

 Coming to the Reunion at Banchetti's
(Saturday)

Dave Broecker
Dick Decker
Doug Eadie
Mike Gfroerer
Judy Hamann
Sandy Hankinson
Bob Henderson
Bob Jenkins
Nancy Johnson
Kathy Kelley
Will Kerr
Ron Kosko
Carolyn Litz
Eileen Payne
Jim Haas
John Kovacs
Don Nelson
Carolyn Pfanner
Jim Ringler
Jim Robinson
Bob Ruettimann
Kathy Schinamon
Susan Schueckler
Roger Slater
Tom Smyers
Bill Socha
Bill Strassburg
Rosemary Wagner
Donna Wein

A - M

Karen Baldwin
Dave Broecker
John Cirrito
Janet Coder
John Crawford
Dick Decker
Tom Dirmyer
Doug Eadie
Dick Fisher
Mike Gfroerer
Jim Haas
Jackie Herbert
Judy Hamann
Bob Jenkins
Nancy Johnson
Kathy Kelley
Nancy Koch
John Kovacs
Bonnie Lefler

N - Z

Don Nelson
Sandy Neuhaus
Terrie Niland
Mike Gfoerer
Eileen Payne
Ann Perry
Carolyn Pfanner
Pat Por
Mary Reinhardt
Karen Richards
Jim Ringler
Joan Roth
Rick Rowley
Bob Ruettiman
Susan Schueckler
Roger Slater
Tom Smyers
Bill Socha
Sharon Stacy
Judie Strickland
Rosemary Wagner
Rose Weatherbee
Donna Wein
Louise Youakim


Reunion Pictures

Pictures from past reunions


Elementary School Pictures

You'll love these flashbacks.
Pictures from the past


T-Talk Classmates

Catch up with classmates &
eMails

T-Talk Miscellaneous
You might find anything here

T-Talk Teachers
Where are they now?


In memory of our 37 deceased classmates


This website was created with funds left over from the reunions and from many very generous donations from many classmates. But, like everything else in our lives, websites and reunions cost money. Your donations to the Reunion fund can be made out to "Tonawanda High School Class of 1963 Reunion Fund" and sent to Karen Baldwin Marshall. To email Karen for address information (we don't put that on the website), click on her name below. Please make sure THS63 is the subject line. Our thanks and appreciation to Jackie Herbert for creating and maintaining this website.

Karen Baldwin Marshall

***May 2013***

New emails for Joan Roth Close, Alice Lucore Lafferty, Jane Leckie & Janet Grehlinger- See T-Talk Classmates

Hi from Alice Lucore Lafferty, classmate of THS 1963! Thanks for always faithfully finding me and getting me the necessary info on the Reunions - I have really appreciated being remembered, though this is the first time I've responded. I cannot make the 50th due to a woefully busy July, but wanted to let everyone know that I still work fulltime at N.T. Public Library - and love it - have been blessed with five grandchildren - which is absolutely the best - and my husband and I will celebrate 50 years together in 2014, so we are living through our 50th year as I speak. Life has been good to me since I became born-again in 1968, five years after our HS graduation. I mean there have been PROBLEMS, but in Christ one overcomes them all! If I understand correctly, we will now join the "combined classes" for our class reunions; and I certainly hope to make one of those. Again, ENJOY! and THANK YOU!

***April 2013***

Sad to report that we have lost yet another classmate, Dick Mayer passed away on April 18, 2013 after a long illness.

Tune in to Bernice Titterington Golden's radio show every Sunday night from 7-8pm on WKBW radio
(930 AM). Bernice is an internationally known psychic. She also has a group meeting the last Wednesday of every month in her home. Look her up on Facebook

***March 2013***

Sad to report that Marilyn Favorite Border passed away on March 11, 2013.

Marilynn J. (nee Favorite) Border, age 67, of the City of Tonawanda, Friday, March 8, 2013, at her residence. A lifelong resident of Tonawanda, she was the daughter of Larry and Evelyn (nee Lyons) Favorite; and was the sister of the late Larry Favorite. A 1963 graduate of Tonawanda High School, Marilynn had been employed by Murray Furniture and also Roberts Furniture in North Tonawanda for many years. Her love of her life was her grandchildren and family Disney adventures.

She is survived by her husband of 45 years, Thomas G. Border; two children, Robin Border of Tonawanda and Christopher Border of North Tonawanda; her grandchildren, Katherine and Nathaniel and her brother, Vincent Favorite of Meadville, PA. Also survived by nieces and nephews.

***February 2013***

Lots of new emails, see T-Talk Classmates

Jackie Herbert has just started her own business, LifeSaver Link, supplying and servicing Medical Medical Emergency Units to those in need. That's the "Help I've fallen and can't get up" machine. lifesaverlink@verizon.net

Thanks to you all, and especially Louise Youkam, we have found several classmates. Keep up the good work

***January 2013***

Ruth Hurdis passed away on January 29th at the age of 92. Ruth is the mother of Larry Hurdis of Missouri City, Texas.

Jo Irene Chambers Westlake Robinson passed away in 2011.

Missing Classmates The following classmates are missing, either the post cards were returned or emails failed. If you know the whereabouts of any of them, please let us know.

Ken Batt, Deborah Brown (Keel), Suzanne Brylski, Marilyn Cox (Krays), Joanne Ellis, Georgio Ferrari, Robert Gibson, Thomas Granville, Michael Grimaldi, Richard Guenot, Douglas Hawkes, Frank A Hughes, Robert Janke, Kathleen Keppen (Ameno), Gerald Korb, Rose Marie Kroll (Wetham), James LaFlamme, Jane Leckie (Galonka), Marilyn Manuse, Charles Miller, Carol Millot (Wilson), Mary Muench (Hoyer), Elizabeth Muetel (Salt), Fred Mundis, Jack Paton, Marilyn Reid, Robert Reynolds, Pauline Schmidt (Eshelman), Richard Stawitsky, Dwight Thompson, Donna Wadon, (Lee), LeGrand (Lee) Wolansky....updated 2/21/13

Sad to report that Karen Potts Dexter passed away in July 2012. Kenneth Shobert passed away this year too. That makes 33 deceased classmates.

Thank you all for the cards and experssions of sympathy on the passing of my mother, Fannie Herbert. She would have been 99 in February and went peacefully in her sleep on Dec 29th, just the way she wanted to go. My brother, Fred, was with her...Jackie Herbert

Lots of email changes, too many to list, check T-Talk

Do any of you remember Margie Doyle? She went to Central Elementary with us. Ran into her recently at the post office with her mother who still lives here in Tonawanda. Margie is married, 3 grown children and several grand children. She lives in Batavia, NY.