Major League Baseball Player. Was signed mid season with the Boston Braves National League team from the Elmira, New York Babcocks in September 1922. Right handed, change up pitcher. He defeated the champion New York Giants two times in his first year with the Boston team. He was traded to the New York Giants for four players in 1928. He retired from baseball in 1931. He Served during WW2 with the US Navy. On D-Day, at Normandy, Ohmaha Beach, on LST 534 as a pharmacist mate, his boat after delivery of the units of soldiers, it was converted to an "ambulance vessel" which under enemy fire collected the wounded and the dead from the waters. Retired from the Veteran's Hospital in Bath NY. Elected to the Elmira Hall of fame in 1975.
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BUFFALO NEWS, PG.22 - MONDAY 23 DECEMBER 1985
OBITUARIES - LOCKPORT
A Mass of Christian Burial for JOSEPH E. GENEWICH, 88, will be offered at 10 a.m. today in St. Mary's Catholic Church, 5 Saxton St.
Burial will be in Bath.
He died Saturday (Dec. 21, 1985) at Mount View Health Facility.
He was a former pitcher for the Boston Braves and the New York Giants from 1922 to 1930. The right-hander pitched 272 games.
He was also a U.S. Army veteran of both World War 1 and World War 11.
Surviving are a son, Dr. Joseph E., and five grandchildren.
This page is sponsored by Olin Hartley
To whom we are eternally grateful.
BUFFALO NEWS, PG.22 - MONDAY 23 DECEMBER 1985
OBITUARIES - LOCKPORT
A Mass of Christian Burial for JOSEPH E. GENEWICH, 88, will be offered at 10 a.m. today in St. Mary's Catholic Church, 5 Saxton St.
Burial will be in Bath.
He died Saturday (Dec. 21, 1985) at Mount View Health Facility.
He was a former pitcher for the Boston Braves and the New York Giants from 1922 to 1930. The right-hander pitched 272 games.
He was also a U.S. Army veteran of both World War 1 and World War 11.
Surviving are a son, Dr. Joseph E., and five grandchildren.
Major League Baseball Player. Was signed mid season with the Boston Braves National League team from the Elmira, New York Babcocks in September 1922. Right handed, change up pitcher. He defeated the champion New York Giants two times in his first year with the Boston team. He was traded to the New York Giants for four players in 1928. He retired from baseball in 1931. He Served during WW2 with the US Navy. On D-Day, at Normandy, Ohmaha Beach, on LST 534 as a pharmacist mate, his boat after delivery of the units of soldiers, it was converted to an "ambulance vessel" which under enemy fire collected the wounded and the dead from the waters. Retired from the Veteran's Hospital in Bath NY. Elected to the Elmira Hall of fame in 1975.
This page is sponsored by Olin Hartley
To whom we are eternally grateful.
BUFFALO NEWS, PG.22 - MONDAY 23 DECEMBER 1985
OBITUARIES - LOCKPORT
A Mass of Christian Burial for JOSEPH E. GENEWICH, 88, will be offered at 10 a.m. today in St. Mary's Catholic Church, 5 Saxton St.
Burial will be in Bath.
He died Saturday (Dec. 21, 1985) at Mount View Health Facility.
He was a former pitcher for the Boston Braves and the New York Giants from 1922 to 1930. The right-hander pitched 272 games.
He was also a U.S. Army veteran of both World War 1 and World War 11.
Surviving are a son, Dr. Joseph E., and five grandchildren.
This page is sponsored by Olin Hartley
To whom we are eternally grateful.
BUFFALO NEWS, PG.22 - MONDAY 23 DECEMBER 1985
OBITUARIES - LOCKPORT
A Mass of Christian Burial for JOSEPH E. GENEWICH, 88, will be offered at 10 a.m. today in St. Mary's Catholic Church, 5 Saxton St.
Burial will be in Bath.
He died Saturday (Dec. 21, 1985) at Mount View Health Facility.
He was a former pitcher for the Boston Braves and the New York Giants from 1922 to 1930. The right-hander pitched 272 games.
He was also a U.S. Army veteran of both World War 1 and World War 11.
Surviving are a son, Dr. Joseph E., and five grandchildren.
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