John and Rose Pankuch raised eleven children. After all of their children had grown up, they purchased this house at 2159 Elbur Avenue in Lakewood. On the morning of February 27, 1952, John Pankuch, then 82 years old, decided to brave a Cleveland winter snow storm and walk to his printing shop on Madison Avenue--about a one-half mile walk. On the way, Pankuch suffered a fatal heart attack and died.
