Notes for Anthony KASNER

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Notes for Anthony KASNER

Anthony Kasner and his family were not found in the soundex for the 1920 U.S. Census in Michigan, although the family would have been living in Detroit, Michigan, at that time. The family of his brother, Alexander Kasner, was in the soundex and census.

The 1928-29 Detroit, Michigan, City Directory on microfilm at the National Archives in Denver, Colorado, listed Anthony Kasner as a diemaker whose home was at 7270 Guthrie Avenue, Detroit. At the same National Archives, on Reel 36A of the Detroit City Directory for 1931-32, Anthony Kasner, whose wife's name is Helen, is shown as a diemaker with a home at 7270 Guthrie Avenue, Detroit.

After looking at this address, Susan Thurtell Miller could recall Janet Kasner Thurtell talking about this home where the family lived for a number of years and how she and her sisters developed strong arm muscles shoveling coal to keep the furnace going.

Susan Thurtell Miller recalls her mother, Janet Kasner Thurtell, telling her that Anthony Kasner had died very suddenly of a heart attack at home. It had been near Easter time, and he was laid out with Easter lilies. Janet Thurtell never liked Easter lilies the rest of her life. Anthony Kasner spoke Polish as his primary language, but Susan recalls her mother telling her that he spoke seven languages and was very intelligent. While he was living, their family was poor but not particularly worse off than the other families they knew during the Depression. The family had to sell Anthony Kasner's Model T Ford to bury him as far as Susan recalls her mother telling her. The oldest child, Ann Kasner, had wanted to be a teacher but took a post graduate course at high school in shorthand and typing. Ann and Janet Kasner, as the two oldest children, then got jobs, first in Detroit and then in Washington, DC, to support their mother and younger siblings.

The death certificate for Anthony Kasner shows his name as Antoni Kasner and that he died in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, on March 10, 1934, of Angina Pectoris with a contributory cause of Lobor Pneumonia. The doctor, whose name and address are hard to read, appears to be J. Nububerner, M.D., 1819 S. Gr. Blvd., and the death certificate shows his doctor last saw him alive on March 2, 1934, and had treated him since February 26, 1934. No autopsy was considered needed, which was shown as OK by A. A. Hughes M.D., Coroner, March 12, 1934, and initialled by J.A.K. The informant for the death certificate was Helen Kasner, 7270 Guthrie Street, Detroit, Michigan. The death certificate shows Anthony Kasner's residence was 7270 Guthrie Street, Detroit, and that he had resided in the same city for 20 years and had been in the U.S. for 23 years. It shows he was a married white male born June 13, 1886, in Slupia, Poland, and that he was 8 months, 27 days, and 47 years old at the time of his death. It shows he was a Tool and Die Maker with Briggs Manufacturing. His wife's name is shown as Helen Sarafinski. The death certificate lists his father as Jan Kasner, born in Slupia, Poland, and his mother as Marja Grzybowski, born in Slupia, Poland. It shows burial was on March 13, 1934, at Forest Lawn, and the undertaker as John Jurkiewicz, 2396 Caniff Aveue. The death certificate was filed March 12, 1934, and its state office number is 180755 at the Office of the State Registrar, Lansing, Michigan.

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