4. | DUWE, Gordon P was born in 1912 in Town of Royalton, Niagara County, NY (son of DUWE, Albert Carl and GAMMACK, Ethel May); died on 2 Jun 1994 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
GORDON P. DEWEY, EX-GM PLANT MANAGER
The Buffalo News - Saturday, June 4, 1994
Services for Gordon P. Dewey, 82, of Coolidge Avenue, retired plant manager of the West Plant of Harrison Division,General Motors Corp., will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday in Trinity Lutheran Church, 67 Saxton St. Burial will be in ColdSpring Cemetery. A native of the Town of Royalton, he died Thursday (June 2, 1994) in Lockport Memorial Hospital. Dewey worked at Harrison for more than 46 years, starting as an hourly employee in 1928. He rose through the ranks, as foreman of inspection, a field service engineer, general foreman of production, general superintendent, and plant manager at the former Washburn Street Plant and the West Plant from 1950 until his retirementin 1975. At Trinity Lutheran Church, he was chairman of the board of trustees for many years and also served as general chairmanof the United Appeal fund drive in the early 1950s. He was the Industrial Committee chairman for the Chamber of Commerce andworked on various fund drives for Boy Scout troops. He was the widower of the former Marion Kator, who died in 1962. Surviving are his wife, the former Hilda L. Linderman; a son, James; a brother, Burt Duwe of Dinuba, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Linda L. Byrum of Milwaukee, Wis.; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
Gordon + LINDERMAN, Hilda L. Hilda (daughter of LINDERMAN, William and WINKLER, Anna) was born in Town of Newstead, Erie County, NY; died on 1 Aug 2011 in Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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