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October 20, 2008
Services
Anna will be laid to rest privately with her late husband John Joseph Chrisbacher(1978) at the Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa (Chapel Section, Lot 212B).
Anna E. Chrisbacher (nee Meintzinger) age 103 of Wayne died Monday, October 20, 2008 at the Atrium Health Care Center, Wayne.
She was born at 82 Lane Street, Paterson on September 25, 1905. Anna was the daughter of immigrant parents. Her father, Ernest Mainzinger, was born January 3, 1878 in Magyarpolany, Veszpem County, Hungary and came to America at age 17 because there was work in the fabric mills of Paterson. Her mother, Mary (nee Fodi) Mainzinger, was born November 8, 1883 in Nemetbanya (Deitschutten), Veszprem County, Hungary and came to Paterson to work as a domestic servant. Ernest and Mary married at St. Boniface Church in Paterson on July 5, 1903. They had six children who were all girls.
Anna’s mother, Mary Mainzinger earned $3.00 per day cleaning houses. She went by bus to the employment office to get the jobs. Bus fare at that time was five cents. Anna was in school as were her younger sisters, Mary and Kate. Her older sister, Theresa, worked. Her mother took her sister Rose (3 or 4 years old) with her to clean houses. They lived in a three-family tenement house at 82 Lane Street, Paterson where rent was $8.00 per month for three bedrooms, a parlor and a kitchen. To supplement their meager income, her mother also took in laundry and washed it in a big boiler pot on the kitchen stove, then hung it out to dry also in the kitchen where it got in the way and everyone complained. During the 1913 silk strike in Paterson, their father would fish every day in the Passaic River because he refused to stand on “the breadline”. The girls soon tired of their Passaic River fish diet and complained bitterly. When WWI was over in 1918, the sirens blew and children were let out of school to celebrate.
On Anna’s birthday in 1919, her mother took her to the Paterson City Hall to get working papers, but Mr. Acorn, the clerk, admonished her for coming in on her birthday and made her go back to school at Our Lady of Victory on Bridge Street for one more week. Anna’s first job was winding cotton at the mill on 7th Street and Belmont Ave., Paterson. She worked from 7:20 AM to 5:30 PM and one day a week she had to go to continuation school until she was sixteen years old. She had five other jobs. The second was in a harness shop, third as a weaver on looms. Her sister Theresa taught her how to weave on a loom. A man also tried to teach her, but because she wouldn’t go out with him he didn’t show her very much.
Anna also worked at edge warping above Miesch’s Ribbon Works. In 1922 her father bought the house at 252 North 7th Street in Prospect Park. They all thought it was a beautiful place even though it had no electricity and no central heat. They had gas lighting. Her father put in central heat several years later. Anna also worked in a file shop for a long time doing piece work and earning about $30.00 for a five-day work week. Another job was doing piece work wrapping finished silk in Weidemann’s Dye House (United Dye Works). She earned $15.00 per week plus 1 ¾ cents per piece for everything over 125 pieces a day. Her father worked at Weidemann’s for a long time as a dyer’s helper. He worked the night shift starting 6:00 PM and came home at 7 AM. Anna paid all of her wages to her father except $1.00 a week. When she turned 21 years old she then paid $7.00 a week room and board to her father and she was allowed to keep the rest.
Anna met her husband at a dance at the Republican Club on West Broadway and Union Avenue in Paterson. She went there with another man who didn’t speak English very well, but when John Chrisbacher came through the door in his policeman’s uniform she was smitten. Later in the evening, after he got off duty, he came back and asked Anna to dance. She accepted his invitation to dance and he later drove her home. She said that leaving the other boyfriend there was a terrible thing to do, but she just fell for John’s uniform and liked him better anyway. John and Anna were married on October 3, 1931, at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Prospect Park, NJ.
Anna was the beloved wife of 46 years to the late John Joseph Chrisbacher(1978); loving mother of Ernest Chrisbacher and his wife Marian of Wayne and John Chrisbacher and his wife Sharon of Smyrna, NY; cherished grandmother of Peter Chrisbacher of Kenett Square, PA, George Chrisbacher and his wife Mary Beth of Wayne, NJ, Carl Chrisbacher and his wife Janeene of Bernardsville, NJ, Anne Perry and her husband Neil of Norwich, NY, Jennifer Thornington and her husband Tom of N. Norwich, NY, and Theresa Reina and her husband Tony of Basking Ridge, NJ; devoted great-grandmother of Leah Chrisbacher, Katie Chrisbacher, Julia Chrisbacher, Anneliese Chrisbacher, Sam Perry, Emily Perry, Samantha Reina, Marlayna Thornington and Lily Thornington; loved sister of the late Mary Krautheim, Rose Grimaldi, Theresa Drain and Katherine Petkos. Her youngest sister, Florence LaSalle, resides at Llanfair House in Wayne, NJ.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Compassionate Care Hospice Foundation, 140 Littleton Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054 would be appreciated.
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Anna will be laid to rest privately with her late husband John Joseph Chrisbacher(1978) at the Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa (Chapel Section, Lot 212B).
October 20, 2008
Services
Anna will be laid to rest privately with her late husband John Joseph Chrisbacher(1978) at the Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa (Chapel Section, Lot 212B).
Anna E. Chrisbacher (nee Meintzinger) age 103 of Wayne died Monday, October 20, 2008 at the Atrium Health Care Center, Wayne.
She was born at 82 Lane Street, Paterson on September 25, 1905. Anna was the daughter of immigrant parents. Her father, Ernest Mainzinger, was born January 3, 1878 in Magyarpolany, Veszpem County, Hungary and came to America at age 17 because there was work in the fabric mills of Paterson. Her mother, Mary (nee Fodi) Mainzinger, was born November 8, 1883 in Nemetbanya (Deitschutten), Veszprem County, Hungary and came to Paterson to work as a domestic servant. Ernest and Mary married at St. Boniface Church in Paterson on July 5, 1903. They had six children who were all girls.
Anna’s mother, Mary Mainzinger earned $3.00 per day cleaning houses. She went by bus to the employment office to get the jobs. Bus fare at that time was five cents. Anna was in school as were her younger sisters, Mary and Kate. Her older sister, Theresa, worked. Her mother took her sister Rose (3 or 4 years old) with her to clean houses. They lived in a three-family tenement house at 82 Lane Street, Paterson where rent was $8.00 per month for three bedrooms, a parlor and a kitchen. To supplement their meager income, her mother also took in laundry and washed it in a big boiler pot on the kitchen stove, then hung it out to dry also in the kitchen where it got in the way and everyone complained. During the 1913 silk strike in Paterson, their father would fish every day in the Passaic River because he refused to stand on “the breadline”. The girls soon tired of their Passaic River fish diet and complained bitterly. When WWI was over in 1918, the sirens blew and children were let out of school to celebrate.
On Anna’s birthday in 1919, her mother took her to the Paterson City Hall to get working papers, but Mr. Acorn, the clerk, admonished her for coming in on her birthday and made her go back to school at Our Lady of Victory on Bridge Street for one more week. Anna’s first job was winding cotton at the mill on 7th Street and Belmont Ave., Paterson. She worked from 7:20 AM to 5:30 PM and one day a week she had to go to continuation school until she was sixteen years old. She had five other jobs. The second was in a harness shop, third as a weaver on looms. Her sister Theresa taught her how to weave on a loom. A man also tried to teach her, but because she wouldn’t go out with him he didn’t show her very much.
Anna also worked at edge warping above Miesch’s Ribbon Works. In 1922 her father bought the house at 252 North 7th Street in Prospect Park. They all thought it was a beautiful place even though it had no electricity and no central heat. They had gas lighting. Her father put in central heat several years later. Anna also worked in a file shop for a long time doing piece work and earning about $30.00 for a five-day work week. Another job was doing piece work wrapping finished silk in Weidemann’s Dye House (United Dye Works). She earned $15.00 per week plus 1 ¾ cents per piece for everything over 125 pieces a day. Her father worked at Weidemann’s for a long time as a dyer’s helper. He worked the night shift starting 6:00 PM and came home at 7 AM. Anna paid all of her wages to her father except $1.00 a week. When she turned 21 years old she then paid $7.00 a week room and board to her father and she was allowed to keep the rest.
Anna met her husband at a dance at the Republican Club on West Broadway and Union Avenue in Paterson. She went there with another man who didn’t speak English very well, but when John Chrisbacher came through the door in his policeman’s uniform she was smitten. Later in the evening, after he got off duty, he came back and asked Anna to dance. She accepted his invitation to dance and he later drove her home. She said that leaving the other boyfriend there was a terrible thing to do, but she just fell for John’s uniform and liked him better anyway. John and Anna were married on October 3, 1931, at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Prospect Park, NJ.
Anna was the beloved wife of 46 years to the late John Joseph Chrisbacher(1978); loving mother of Ernest Chrisbacher and his wife Marian of Wayne and John Chrisbacher and his wife Sharon of Smyrna, NY; cherished grandmother of Peter Chrisbacher of Kenett Square, PA, George Chrisbacher and his wife Mary Beth of Wayne, NJ, Carl Chrisbacher and his wife Janeene of Bernardsville, NJ, Anne Perry and her husband Neil of Norwich, NY, Jennifer Thornington and her husband Tom of N. Norwich, NY, and Theresa Reina and her husband Tony of Basking Ridge, NJ; devoted great-grandmother of Leah Chrisbacher, Katie Chrisbacher, Julia Chrisbacher, Anneliese Chrisbacher, Sam Perry, Emily Perry, Samantha Reina, Marlayna Thornington and Lily Thornington; loved sister of the late Mary Krautheim, Rose Grimaldi, Theresa Drain and Katherine Petkos. Her youngest sister, Florence LaSalle, resides at Llanfair House in Wayne, NJ.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Compassionate Care Hospice Foundation, 140 Littleton Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054 would be appreciated.
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