Boston Globe
May 2, 1987LOYCANO - In Medford, May 1st, Vincent, of 696 Fulton st., beloved husband of the late
Mary Frances (Smith), and father of Joseph A., of Bellingham, and brother of Mary Cognata, of Everett, and Ann Internente, of Lexington.
The Salem
January 23, 1993Beverly - Grafton P. Haskell, 93, a longtime employee of the former United Shoe Machinery Corp., died Thurday after a brief illness. Born in Salem, he had been a resident of Beverly since 1927.
Mr. Haskell was a member of the USM Quarter Century Club, the Church-in-the-Cove and the Starr King Lodge A.F. & A.M. in Salem.
Mr. Haskell was the husband of the late Effie (Seavey) Haskell. He is survived by two daughters, Barbara S. Leoroyd of Beverly and Marjorie Appleton of Hampshire, N.H.; a sister in law, Susan Haskell of New Jersey; four grandchildren; a great grandson and several cousins. He was the son of the late Franklin and Florence B. Haskell
33530. Harriet M. Parker Hawley
Schenectady Gazette
July 6, 1936Mrs. Harriet M. Hawley Titus, wife of the late Thomas A. Titus, died early yesterday morning at her home, 625 Michigan avenue.
Mrs. Titus was born in Troy where she lived for 50 years. She came to this city 32 years ago. While she was in Troy she attended the old Vale Avenue Methodist Church which later became Grace Methodist Church.
She is survived by three daughters, Miss Mattie Z. Durfee of Midbleburg, Mrs. Rena A. Taylor of Troy and Mrs. Harriet M. Cerino of this city, and two sons, Harry E. Titus of Erie, Pa., and Stanley D. Titus of this city; also 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery, Troy.
Schenectady Gazette
1949DELANSON � Stanley Dennis Titus, 65, a retired grocer, died suddenly about noon Thursday from a heart attack. Mr. Titus was painting at his route 7 home when he was stricken.
A native of Troy, he was born Aug. 2, 1883, son of the late Thomas and Harriet Hawley Titus. On retiring from the grocery business he moved to Delanson about a year ago. He was a member of Mount Zion lodge 311, F. and A.M. of Troy.
Mr. Titus is survived by his wife, the former Pansy Van Vranken, one daughter, Mrs. Clifford Stock; one son, Thomas Titus; and three grandchildren, all of Delanson. He also leaves three sisters, Mrs. George Durfee of Schenectady, Mrs. George Taylor of Troy and Mrs. D. I. Serino of Schenectady; one brother, Harry E. Titus of Erie, Pa.; several nieces and nephews.
U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments
Name: William A Hawley
Birthyear: abt 1879
Birthplace: Troy, New York
Enlistment Age: 24
Enlisted for 3 years at Moncie, Indiana, November 9, 1903
The Register
December 14, 1930Mrs. May Estelle Vettel, wife of Theodore Vettel, died suddenly at midnight Saturday after a seven months illness, age 48 years. Her death occurred at her residence, 917 W. Osborne st.
She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Ralph Bullock; two sons, William Krug and Theo Vettel, all of Sandusky; one grandchild, her mother, Mrs. Mary Hawley
The Sandusk Star Journal
February 26, 1940Dr. T. J. C. Stellborn will officiate at funeral services for Otto August Grulich, at 2:30 p.m. at the family residence, 1211 Osborne st. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery.
Mr. Grulich, a well known Sanduskian and a locomotive engineer with the New York Central railroad here for many years, died at 7:35 p.m. Saturday at his home following a long illness. He was aged 59 years, nine months and two days.
He was, in point of service, one of the oldest engineers on the N.Y.C. from Sandusky. He was brought to the United States from Prussia at the age of nine months.
Mr, Grulich was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Perseverence Lodge No. 329, F. and A.M., Singara Grotto, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He was also a member of Zion Lutheran Church.
Surviving are four brothers, Fred and Max, Cleveland, August, Toledo and Albert, Sandusky; one sister, Mrs. Clara McCormick, Sandusky and other relatives. A sister Margaret Grulich, preceded him in death.
U.S., WWI Civilian Draft Registrations, 1917-1918
Name: Adler, Leo W.
Birth Date: 1 Feb 1890
Birth Place: Colegrove PA
City/County: Cleveland# 18
State: OH
Ethnicity:W
Kalamazoo Gazette:
November 3, 1930Edwin F. Zander, Kalamazoo, died Saturday night after a lingering illness. He is survived by three daughters and one son, Miss Ethel Zander, Kalamazoo, Mrs. A.W. VanAuken, Saginaw, Mrs. J.M. Kehlor, and Arthur J. Zander, both of Beverly Hills, Calif.; and one sister, Miss Carrie Zander, Elkhart, Ind.
Kalamazoo Gazette:
April 3, 1939Mrs. Sarah S. Zander, Los Angeles, a former resident of Kalamazoo, died in her Los Angeles home suddenly Sunday morning, according to word received here by her daughter, Miss Ethel Zander. Mrs. Zander has been ill for some months, but her death was wholly unexpected.
Mrs. Zander was born near Battle Creek, and Nov. 1, 1889 was married to E.F. Zander, who died six years ago. She left Kalamazoo in 1926 and since then has lived in Los Angeles. The body is to be brought to Kalamazoo for burial.
She is survived by a son, Jack, Los Angeles; three daughters, Miss Ethel Zander, Kalamazoo; Mrs. Willis Van Auken, Saginaw, and Mrs. James M. Kehlor, San Francisco, and two grandchildren, Sally and Marcia Van Auken.
Obituary Record
Index: SAGINAW NEWS
Thursday, June 15, 1944 (27)
Name: ZANDER, SARA E.
Date of Death: Thursday, June 15, 1944
Place of Death: KALAMAZOO, MI
Miscellaneous
Misc: SISTER OF MRS. VANAUKEN OF SAGINAW
New York Times News Service
December 23, 2007NEW YORK - Jack Zander, a master animator who 60 years ago was among the first to apply his art to a brand-new form of communication - the television commercial - died Monday at his home in Pound Ridge, N.Y. He was 99.
Mr. Zander's family confirmed the death.
In the early years of television, commercials, like the shows, were broadcast live, an inherently disaster-prone enterprise. By the late 1940s, advertisers, in search of TV spots that were captivating, consistent, and error-free, had begun to explore animation. To make the spots, they turned to successful theatrical animators, among them Mr. Zander.
One of the last living artists from the heyday of Hollywood animation, Mr. Zander was for decades after World War II one of the country's most sought-after producers of animated commercials. His New York studio, Zander's Animation Parlour, was known familiarly in the trade as "the Disney of the East" for the quality of its work, all done by hand in those pre-computer days.
By the time he retired in the mid-1980s, Mr. Zander estimated he had made more than 5,000 commercials. These included a popular series for Piels Beer in the 1950s, voiced by the radio comedians Bob and Ray. His other accounts included Gulf Oil, Camel cigarettes, the Dime Savings Bank, Alka-Seltzer, Green Giant vegetables, Crest toothpaste, and a bevy of breakfast cereals.
Before his commercial career, Mr. Zander, considered a Matisse of mice, was best known as the original animator of Jerry in the "Tom and Jerry" cartoon series, begun in 1940. More recently, he produced and directed the animated television special "Gnomes" (1980).
His honors include a 1993 Winsor McCay Award from the International Animated Film Society. (The award recognizes lifetime contributions in animation.) Not bad, Mr. Zander's colleagues said in interviews Wednesday, for a man who had no concept of what an animator did when he took his first job in 1930.
Arthur Jack Zander was born May 3, 1908, in Kalamazoo, Mich., and moved with his family to Hollywood as a teenager. Intending to be a fine artist, he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. (It is now the California Institute of the Arts.)
One day a call came in to the Chouinard office. Romer Grey, a son of the Western novelist Zane Grey, had started an animation studio in his father's garage. He needed animators. The receptionist stuck her head into the lobby, where Mr. Zander and a friend happened to be sitting.
"Are you fellows animators?" she asked.
Mr. Zander, as he later said in interviews, had no idea what an animator was. But it was the start of the Depression.
"Yes!" he shouted, and so his career began.
For the next two decades Mr. Zander honed his craft at a series of studios, including Warner Brothers (where, for $14 a week, he worked on Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons) and MGM, where he did "Tom and Jerry" under the direction of animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. During World War II, Mr. Zander served in the Army Signal Corps, where he made animated training films.
Mr. Zander's wife, the former Beth Wasem, whom he married in 1941, died in 1978. He leaves six children, Kathryn Muller of Pittsburgh, Mark of Pawling, N.Y., who runs his father's business (now called Zander Productions), Maggie Zander Orling of North Salem, N.Y.; Jane Sussman of Cambridge; Peter, of Katonah, N.Y., and David, of Pasadena, Calif.; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
After the war Mr. Zander turned to commercial animation. His first ad, for Chiclets gum in 1947, featured a string of Chiclets boxes made into a little train. In 1954, he formed his first studio, Pelican Films.
During this period Mr. Zander was known for giving work to left-wing artists who had been blacklisted in Hollywood, his family and colleagues said Wednesday. Mr. Zander later started Zander's Animation Parlour
From his grandson, Carl:
My grandfather James A. ran away from home when he was young and never went back or wanted to. Grandfather found his way to San Francisco, where he played the flute in a small group that played for weddings and wrote an opera called "Ramona" (story from an old California legend) that was preformed just once in SF. He later ran a music store.
Oakland Tribune
November 5, 1956ZANDER, Irene, in Oakland, November 4, 1956, beloved mother of Mrs. Ramona Roberts and Carl Edward Zander, grandmother of David E. and William O. Roberts Jr. and Carl E. Zander Jr.; a native of California