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Albert Anzinger

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Albert Anzinger
Died2015-10-27
Geraldton, Ontario
OccupationMechanic; shop foreman
EmployerKimberly-Clark of Canada
Partner

Albert Anzinger ((1931-06-15)15 June 1931 – 27 October 2015(2015-10-27) (aged 84)) was a German-born logger and mill mechanic who settled in Geraldton, Ontario, and worked for Kimberly-Clark of Canada until 1985.[1][2]

Life and family

Anzinger was born on 15 June 1931 in Kelheim, Germany, and came to Canada as a young man, working at first as a logger. He settled in Geraldton in the 1950s and found permanent work at Kimberly-Clark of Canada, first as a mechanic and then as shop foreman, retiring in 1985.[1] He was a Freemason for 39 years, four times Master of Kenogamisis Lodge No. 656, a Shriner, and a church elder at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. He boxed briefly in 1949, and loved hunting, fishing and swimming.[1]

He died at Geraldton on 27 October 2015. His first wife, Olga, died before him; he was survived by his wife Frances Anzinger (née Molkoski), his daughter Debbie McKay and grandson Kyle, and by brothers Leo, Wilhelm and Joachim Reichold in Germany.[1]

Notes

  • Died in Geraldton, Ontario; the death was reported in the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Obituary for Albert Anzinger, The Chronicle-Journal (Thunder Bay), November 2015, via Legacy.com. Archived copy on datum.locker.
  2. ↑ The Chronicle-Journal, 21 November 2015, p. 1(B)