Francis Sickinger

Francis Sickinger was the first child of Francis Sickinger and Mary Raimonda.  He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1922.   Francis attended Saint Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Manayunk.  He also attended primary school at Saint Mary's.

Photo: Francis when he made his First Holy Communion at Saint Mary’s Church probably at about 6 years old.

Courtesy of Bob Sickinger. 

 Photo: Francis in the T B sanitarium.

Courtesy of Bob Sickinger.

When he was old enough to go to work he worked for his father as a driver in the Sickinger Motor Freight Company.  Young Francis lived in the basement of one of his father’s garages in Manayunk.  The garage was located near the canal and river.  His younger brother William "Bob" attributes sleeping in the damp basement of the garage as the source of the tuberculosis, which took Francis' life when he was only 18 years old.  Francis died in a tuberculosis sanitarium in Hamburg, Pennsylvania in 1940.  He is buried in the Sickinger plot at Saint Mary’s cemetery in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.

Francis Sickinger never married and had no know descendants.