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From: Nancy <>
Subject: Re: [NYERIE-L] Roll Call PANKOW
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:25:01 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <4d.159f5f8e.2942b2de@aol.com>



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Remember Clara Mueller Pankow Miller?

Clara Mueller Pankow Miller lived on Alt Blvd. with her husband and children and instructed piano to hundreds of Island residents in her home throughout the 1940s and 1950s and even longer. Many of her students, now in their 50s and 60s, would tell us of their accomplishments as a pianist, giving all of the credit to their teacher, Mrs. Pankow. A 50 year member of the American Guild of Organists, she spent many of those years playing at a Lutheran church in Buffalo where her father preached.
Now known as Clara Pankow Miller, the accomplished organist is now 92 years old and continues to play the organ at the Christian Science church in Poughkeepsie. What is most unusual about Mrs. Miller's life at the moment is that she has enrolled as the State University of New York's oldest student. She is a freshman at the State University at New Paltz. An advertisement offering college credits for life experiences is what brought about her enrollment in two classes - sociology and medieval music. She says, "I built up a book for them and got 88 credits."
Today Mrs. Miller lives in Wappingers Falls and still clearly remembers her most famous student, Buffalo Bob Smith, the host of the "Howdy Doody Show," who took piano lessons from her for 11 years. According to Clara, Buffalo Bob named his clown, Clarabell after her!


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Have no idea is she is yours, but always worth checking. I will have to look at my Grand Island census and see who is there. I have not indexed this census yet. Working the weekend, but look for a reply next week.

The Mr. Pankow I am remembering I believe was a music teacher.

Nancy


wrote:
Nancy - Thanks for your response on the Pankow's. I am related to a
Charles G. Pankow born in 1851 who started out as a grocer and later was
involved in some city government and some brewery organizations in Buffalo.
Charles did have several sons and daughters including a son named William
born in 1872 and a son named Charles born in 1882. If you feel that the Grand
Island Pankow family is the same and have some information, I would be
interested. I know very little about Charles's descendants and I don't know
if this is the same Pankow family as the former mayor in the 1950's or not.
My Pankow's were originally from the Mecklenberg part of Germany (near the
Polish border ) before they came to Buffalo. - Lisa

Seems I remember there being a Pankow family on Grand Island, New York in the
1950's. May have been William, also a Charles.
Nancy
wrote:
Searching: Bachert, Baitz, Beitz, Bischof, Dechent, Estabrook, Gentsch,
Kraatz, Lehner, Lindauer, Moeller, Pankow, Pfeil, Stettenbenz, Weil - all
from the Buffalo, New York area. - Thanks - Lisa


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