Letter from Irma Unterweger
(Josef's wife)

Irma Unterweger
Str. Tudor Vladimirescu 81, Pancota (aka:Pankota/Pâncota/Pîncota)
Regime Timis, Rumania

Pancota,. on 24-04.1960.

 

My dearest.

 

Here is my second letter to you. I want to inform you Our dear father and your brother Jossi, died on 13, October 1959. After the funeral, I wrote a letter covering everything, six months have passed and I haven’t received any answer yet. I wonder about my letter if you received it or did it get lost; I don’t believe you forgot about the bereavement.

 

2. - Now I will try a different way to write to you and hope you will receive it.  And if you don’t answer it. – So, in God’s name, - I did my duty, wrote you twice and notified that Jossi died.  Very sad, he had a hear attack during the night. It only took a few minutes and I loved him so much. now I lost Jossi.  He was only 58, years old, he was only 10 month in pension and he still could be with us.  It is sad, we lost our good father, we are heartbroken and we miss him.

 

3. - He was lying in his dying bed so peaceful. He had a nice big funeral, lots of flowers and wreaths. The people were singing and escorted him to his peaceful place. I am enclosing a small picture of him. That is the last picture of him, you may keep it for a memory of him and pray for his soul.  I also held a High Mass at his birthplace in Merzydorf, for Josef, Jakob and Christina Unterweger, exactly on Jossi’s Birthday, on 12th of April.

 

My parents are still living. Father is 78 years old, mother is 74, years old, and they both are still healthy. But since Jossi, passed away, they both are broken-hearted. 

4 - I probably will get a small pension for Jossi, about 300 lei. Then I still have the garden. Now I know what I have to do.  My children are grown up; I also have two lovely grandchildren. Two boys, Dieter and Gerhard. They really loved their grandfather.  They go with me to the cemetery and water the flowers on grandfather’s grave. I hope you will answer me soon, not so you will forget it.
Hearty greetings to all of you.

Your friend Irma.

Your dears and the old ones.

 

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Many thanks to Alex Leeb for this translation.

 

Unterweger - Ingrisch Families
of Mercydorf
Family of Jacob Unterweger & Christina Ingrisch
Remembered by Pete & Karen Unterweger
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Related Surnames: Unterweger, Ingrisch, Binjung, Senetra, Krauetz, Frisch, Parison & Borcherding