Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: BROKENBEK, James, 13 May 1943

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JAMES BROKENBEK

  James Brokenbek, 52, of 1033 Lysle Ave., Port Vue, 
died today at 9 a.m. at McKeesport Hospital where he 
had been a patient for the last three weeks.
  He came to this country 40 years ago from Germany 
where he was born on March 8, 1891.  His parents were 
the late Wenzel and Theresia Kraus Brokenbek, and he is 
survived by his wife, Edith Dell Brokenbek; five sons, 
James, of the U.S. Army stationed at Washington, D.C.; 
Howard, also in the Army, stationed somewhere in the 
Pacific; Duane, Herbert, and Homer, at home; three 
daughters, Mrs. Lewis Cohn, of McKeesport; Mrs. Marjorie 
Hinick, of Port Vue; and Irene, at home; six grandchildren; 
four brothers, Frank and John, of this city; Henry and William, 
of Duquesne; one sister, Mrs. Anna Herst, of Pittsburgh.
  Until four years ago when he became ill, Mr. Brokenbek had 
been employed as a roller in the Tin Mill.  He was a member 
of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and St. Mary's German Roman 
Catholic Church where funeral services will be held Monday at 
9 a.m. in charge of the Rev. W. C. Fromme.  Interment is to be 
in St. Mary's Cemetery.  Friends will be received at the 
Hunter-Edmundson-Striffler Funeral Home beginning tomorrow afternoon.

McKeesport Daily News, May 13, 1943