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Niagara Gazette - 11/1968

MIDDLEPORT-Spencer H.
Bennett, 61, of 60 S. Main St.,
a former mayor of this community,
died Monday (Nov. 11,
1968) in Medina Memorial Hospital after
a long illness.
He .was Middleport mayor
from 1943 to 1951 and also
served as a deputy Niagara
County clerk from 1937 to 1950.
A Republican, he was a village
trusteee .from 1935 to 1943 and
was Niagara County rent administrator
from 1950 to 1953.
He was a former employe of
the Harrison Radiator Division
of the General Motors Corp. in
Lockport, where he worked
from 1953 until retiring in
March 1966 because of ill
health. He was a superintendent
of technical data at the
firm.
A native of this community,
he was bom the son of the late
George S. and Winnifred Ennist
Bennett. His father once operated
the Bennett Lumber
Yard here.
Mr. Bennett was a 1926 sraduat
of the former Middleport
High School and attended the
former Mechanics Institute in
Rochester. A past president of
the Northwestern Association of
Villiage Officials, he was a past
master of Cataract Lodge 295
F and AM.
Survivors include his wife
Lauretta Redmond Bennett;
and a sister, Mrs. Beverly
Smith of Medina.
A funeral service will be held
at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Wall-
lace and Heath Funeral Home
with the Rev. Alfred Underhill
officiating. Burial will be in
Hartland Central Cemetery.
Cataract Lodge 295 will conduct
Masonic services at 9 p.m.
today in the funeral home.

Family/Spouse: REDMOND, Lauretta. Lauretta (daughter of REDMOND, William and Bridgett) was born on 19 Apr 1909; died on 19 Apr 2002 in Medina, Orleans County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 8/22/1928

After more than three hours of fruitiest effort with pulmotors
and other recuscitation methods, physicians at 1:30
o'clock this afternoon gave up hopes of restoring the life of
George S. Bennett, 55 years old. prominent Middleport business
man and Republican candidate for county treasurer, who plunged
into the barge canal with his automobile near the Main street
lift bridge in Middleport at 10 o'clock this morning.
With a faint hope that some
trace of life might still remain in
the man although he had been
under water more than thirty min-
utes, Drs. T. A. Addy and C. H.
Thomas of Middleport had worked
steadily over the body while a
large part of the village looked
helplessly on. The new inhalator
recently purchased for the Lock-
port fire department was rushed to
Middleport by automobile and a
pulmotor was sent from Buffalo
by airplane but neither proved of
any avail.
Swerves From Street
Bennett had been to inspect a
building which is under construc-
tion and was returning to his of-
fice at about 10 o'clock. Near the
Main street bridge over the Barge
canal which passes through the
village, his light sedan was seen
to swerve suddenly from the high-
way and plunge over the bank,
disappearing beneath the water.
A tow car was hurried to the
sport where the auto went over the
bank and a chain was attached to
the submerged machine by
Charles Kennedy, the Middle-
port scoutmaster who dove
and swam about the machine. The
sedan was then raised from the
water sufficiently so that Bennett's
body could be removed from a win-
dow.
It was thirty-two minutes after
the auto had taken its tragic plunge
before Bennett's body was raised
from the water to the bank where
the physicians were waiting to administer
first sld. -No pulse could
be found but knowing that life had
In the past been restored in cases
where persons have been under
water for longer periods, the physicians
assisted by willing spectators
began artificial recuscitation
while hurry calls were sent to
Lockport and Buffalo for pul-
motors.
Assistant Superintendent Of Fire
Alarms Frank J. Murtaugh and
Anthony J. Haley of the Lockport
Light, Heat and Power Company
responded in the latter's automo-
bile with the new inhalator. This
was purchased several months ago
by the Lockport fire Department
and ft waa the first time It had
aver been used. The Inhalator
was placed In operation for forty
minutes bat had no effect on the
lifeless form. Meanwhile a pnlmoter
arrived by airplane from
Buffalo and was tried with no better
results;
Give Up Last Hope.
At 1:M o'clock the tired medical
men finally gave up the hopes to
which they had so long and faithfully
clang and the body was removed
from the canal bank to the
Whltad and Hall undertaking; establishment.
Dr. F. A. Kittinger.
of Lockport coroner, was notified
and Issued a certificate of accidental
death.
Bennett was one of the best
known and. most active citizens of
Middleport and yesterday filed a
petition at the County Election
Bureau In Lockport as a Republican
candidate for county treasurer.
Ha was the first candidate
to proaenf ttmeelf for this office
from the eastern extremity of the
county In many years.
Starting In business In Middleport
under the firm name of
Compton and Bennett, produce
buyers. In 1905, Bennett continued
as a produce merchant until 1920
when he entered the lumber and
coal business In which he was stiil
actively engaged. He served as
village treasurer from 1911 to
1926 and at the time of his death
was president of the Board of Education,
a director of the Community
Trust Company of Middleport.
a director of the Middleport Loan
and Savings Association since 1922
and president of the Middleport
Improvement Association which
recently presented the village a new
street. Butler Parkway.
Fraternally. Bennett was a member
of the Cataract lodge of
Masons where he served as master
from 1901 to 1904 and was a member
Of too Medina Lodge of Elks.
Por many years he had been a
trustee of the Methodist Episcopal
church and had always been active
In every community activity.
was always a Republican.
Surviving are his wife, Winifred;
one soft, Spsncar Bennett of
Middleport and a daughter,
Beverley Smith of Medina.

George married ENNIST, Winnifred about 1900. Winnifred was born in Jul 1873 in West Shokan, NY; died on 31 Aug 1945 in Medina, Orleans County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 9/1/1945

MIDDLEPORT - In falling
health for more than a year. Mrs.
Winifred Bennett, 72, of 11 State;
St., widow of George S. Bennett,
former lumber dealer and contractor,
died Friday afternoon in Medina
Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Bennett was born In West
Shokan. but had lived In Middleport
since her marriage 46 years
ago. She was a member of Prin-
cess Chapter, Order of he Eastern
Star, and Middleport Methodist
Church.
Mr. Bennett was accidentally
drowned 17 years ago when his automobile
plunged into the Barge
Canal here. He was prominent in
Republican circles and had filed as
a candidate for county treasurer
the dav before his death.
Surviving are a son. Deputy
County Clerk Spencer H. Bennett,
of Middleport; a daughter. Mrs.
Beverly M. Smith, of Medina; a
granddaughter, Glorla Smith, of
Medina, and a sister, Mrs. Salisbury
M. Day, of Rochester.
Services win be held Monday
morning at 11 o'clock at the home.
Burial will be in Hartland Central
Cemetery.