2. | ADAMS, Harry was born about 1885 in Germantown, NY; died on 16 Nov 1953 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
Niagara Gazette - 11/16/1953
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday for Harry Adams Sr.,
8427 Frontier Ave., whose body
was,found in the Mathieson Alkali
Co. dump yesterday'by his son-in-
law, Richard Trowell.
Police said that Mr. Adams had
been gathering scrap metal. It was
reported that Dr. Lemuel R. Hurlbut,
Lockport, issued, a certificate
of death from natural causes.
Mr. Adams left home early yesterday
and his family began searching
for him late in the afternoon
when he failed to return home.
Police, called to the dump when
residents of the area noticed his
car parked near the dump for a
long time with his dog inside, arrived
shortly after Mr. Trowell
found the body.
A native of Germantown, N. Y
Mr. Adams retired in 1950 after
17 years as a Mathieson employe.
Previously, he had been a silversmith
at the Rogers Silverplate Co.
for 27 years before the company
moved from this city.
He is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Anna May Burns and Mrs.
Trowell, and two sons, Charles G.
and Harry Adams Jr., this city, and
by a third son, Gerald H. Adams,
North Tonawanda.
The Rev, Lawrence E. Herfurth
will officiate at the services at 2
p.m. Wednesday at the Lane Funeral
'Home, 8622 Buffalo Ave. Interment
will be in Memorial Park
Cemetery.
Harry married Catherine M about 1910. Catherine was born about 1886 in New York; died in Dec 1932 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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