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On the 1930 Census there is a family in Tonawanda, Erie County NY.
Lawrence Himmelsbach and spouse Cecilia (nee KIEB), with son Carl J. Carl J. HIMMELSBACH obit is in the Chronicle Sun in Massachusetts. Maybe he is on the SSDI. Obit is posted on ancestry after searching his name it should appear. Published May 5, 2004 if I recall correctly.