My Aunt Julianne (Julia) Saskowski Grutza (1896 - ? )

My Aunt Julia lived in Milwaukee not too far from our house.  She had a large family.  For some reason, the name Knitter is associated with her but the records I found show her married to a Harry Grutza.  I'm guessing that one of her children married a Knitter but I couldn't find any links in ancestry.com.....yet.

In 1930 when my dad was 23 years old and still had the surname Saskowski, he was living with Julia and Harry in Milwaukee.  

The household at that time included the following members and ages:

• Harry Grutza,  33
• Julia Grutza, 34
• Esther Grutza, 12
• Jeanette Grutza, 9
• Richard Grutza, 7
• Harry Grutza, 6
• Bernadine Grutza, <1
• Walter Saskowski, 23

We think this picture is of Julia.  

One of her sons in the Navy may have been killed in World War II.  Here's a picture of Harry Grutza and one of their sons.  Richard?  He went MIA in the Pacific.

 My brother told me that Harry liked cigars.

Coast Guard

We think the next two pictures are of Julia and Harry's daughter, Esther, who would have been about 22 in the wedding picture.

Here's a nice family picture with Aunt Julia, Harry, children and grandchildren, some named Knitter (?).  Apparently the address for one of the sons is written on the back of this picture.

Here's a picture of my Aunt Julia with her sister, my Aunt Martha (Marty), Aunt Martha's daughter, Trudy, and my brother, Tom.

Aunt Julia died of a heart attack or a similar sudden death, sometime in the 1950's.