Rita L. Niedbalski

After finishing school, she worked for Cease’s Commissary Restaurant in Dunkirk for many years as a baker. She spent the past few years before retirement working for the Fredonia Place community, doing homecare and also doing private house cleaning. She was known to her friends and family for her selflessness, strength, feistiness and cheesy jokes. She loved to play pinochle with her friends, step-sisters-in-law, step nieces and step-nephews. She will also be fondly remembered for her shopping trips together, birthday cupcakes, family picnics, and funny bits of “road rage.” Even though her siblings and her weren’t able to have children of their own, she had a motherly heart, considering so many people she loved as nieces, nephews and granddaughters, as family. She will be missed very much by her friend, Jennifer Mackey, who considered her to be like a grandma for many years; and her friends, Thomas and Janice (Zielinski) Kuznicki, whom she considered as “niece and nephew,” of Blasdell, and their daughters, “great-nieces and great nephews,” Lisa (Kuznicki) Gates and Kevin, of Charlotte, and their children, “great-grandnieces”, Jamie, Meagan, Caitlin and Laci and Holly (Kuznicki) Schoenborn and Jeff, of Buffalo, as well as their children, “great-grand niece and nephews”, Lila, Nathaniel, and Mathias.

Besides her parents she was predeceased by her older siblings Bill Niedbalski, baby sister, Anna Niedbalski, and Agatha (Niedbalski) Latham.

Memorials in Rita’s memory may be made to the Lakeshore Humane Society; 431 E. Chestnut Street, Dunkirk, NY.

A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Arrangements by R. Mackowiak Funeral Home, Inc.; 56 E. Doughty St., Dunkirk, NY. Interment in private.