Family/Spouse: MCCANTY, Dexter L. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 9/26/1969

CRAFTS - Samuel A. of Barker,
N.Y.. Sept. 25, 1969 in Newfane.
Survived by his wife, Mrs.
Beatrice Crafts; two daughters,
Mrs. Dexter L. McCanty of Barker
ana Miss Annette Crafts of
Barker; one son, Dennis Crafts
of USAF of Goose Bay, Laborador;
two grandchildren, his mother,
Mrs. Gail Crafts of
Barker; three sisters, Mrs.
Fern Clapp of Ransomville,
Mrs. Flo Belle Fredricksen of
Newark. N.Y.; Mrs. E f f ie
Green of Perrysburg, Ohio; one
brother, Lynn of Mount Prospect,
Ill. Beginning Friday evening,
friends may call at the
Hood Funeral Home, Barker,
from 2-5 and 7-9, where services
will be held Monday at 10:30.
Interment in Somerset Cemetery.

ALSO

Same date and paper

BARKER - Samuel A. Crafts
46, of Barker, died Thursday in
Newfane Inter-Community Memorial
Hospital, where he had
been .. patient for several days.
He was a patient for four weeks
at Cleveland Clinic, where he
had heart surgery, prior to going
to the Newfane hospital.
Mr. Crafts was born March
18. 1923 in Barker, the son of
Lynn and Gail Burgess Crafts.
His mother survives him.
Mr. Crafts served for two
years in the engineer corps in
the Pacific Theatre during
World Wai II. He was married,
June 3, 1944 to the former Beatrice
Blackley of Lockport, who
survives him.
He had been employed for 14
years as a journeyman millwright
by Harrison Radiator Division.
General Motors Corp.
He was a member and past
commander of Herbert Carr
Post 423, American Legion and
member of Somerset United
Methodist Church.
In addition to his widow and
mother he is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Dexter L. Mc
Cantry and Miss Annette Crafts,
hoth of Barker; a son, Dennis
Crafts, serving with the U.S.
Air Force in Goose Bay, Labrador:
two grandchildren; three
sisters Mrs. Fern Clapp of Ransom
vilic, Mrs. Flo Belle Fredricksen
of Newark and Mrs.
Effie Green of Perrysburg, Ohio
and a brother, Lynn Crafts of
Mount Prospect, III.
Beginning this evening,
friend? may call from 2 to 5 and
7 to 9 p.m. at the Hood Funeral
Home, Barker, where funeral
servire? will be held at 10:30
a.m. Monday. The Rev. Allyn
rosfpr. pastor of Somerset United
Methodist Church, will off.
ciate. Burial will be in Somerset
Cemetery.

Samuel married BLACKLEY, Beatrice Marie [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lynn + BURGESS, Gail. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 2/4/1952

Services for Harry L. Blackley,
55, of 321 Green St., who died Saturday,
will he held tomorrow at
9 o'clock at the home of his father.
Charles F. Blackley, 72 Webb
St and at 9:30 at St. Patrick's
Church. Burial will be in Cold
Spring Cemetery.
Mr. Blackley, a veteran of
World War I, was stricken unex-
pectedly at his home on Saturday
with a heart attack. He was an
inspector at the Simonds Saw and
Steel Company where he had
worked about 15 years. He was
bom in this city on Sept. 30, 1896.
Surviving besides his father are
his wife, Mrs. Matilda Fraas
Blackley; a son, Charles F., of
Lockport; a daughter, Mrs. Beatrice
Crafts of Olcott; four grandchildren;
three slsters. Mrs. O. E .
Wagner of Niagara Falls, Mrs.
Roy Rltz and Mrs. Eugene L.
Smalunan of Lockport and two
brothers, Fred W. and Milton W.
Blackley of Lockport

Harry married FRAAS, Matilda about 1925 in New York. Matilda was born about 1900 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 8/4/1964

LOCKPORT - Charles E.
Blackley, 90, of 395 Lincoln
Ave., died Monday (Aug. 3,
1964) in Lockport Memorial
Hospital.
Born here, March 16, 1874,
he had been employed by the
American District Steam Co.
and the Lockport Heat and
Power Co. Before joining the
Upson Co. as a steamfitter
He retired in 1948.
He had lived at 72 Webb
St. for more than 30 years
until 1962. His wife, Nettie Petrie
Blackley, died in 1949.
Surviving are three daughters,
Mrs. Roy R. Ritz arid
Mrs. F. Allen Watters, both
of Lockport, and Mrs. 0. E.
Wagner, Covina, Calif.; two
sons. Fred W. and Milton W.
Blackley, both of Lockport:
six grandchildren and 11
great-grandchildren and a
brother, Alvin J. Blackley,
Lockport: and several nieces
and nephews.
Friends mav call., at his
home. Funeral arrangements
will be announced late. Burial
will be in Cold Spring
Cemetery.

Charles + PETRIE, Mary. Mary was born about 1875 in IL; died on 10 Oct 1949 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 10/13/1949

BLACKLEY - Funeral services for
Nettie Blackley were held at her
home 72 Webb Street, Wednesday
afternoon, October 12, 1949 at 3:30
o'clock. The Reverend John Graf
officiated. the bearers were
grandsons, Clifford Wagner, Charles
Blackley and Richard Blackley, nep-
hews, James Blackley, Fred Petrie
and Eugene Smallman. Women of
the Loyal Order of Moose No. 282
served as an Honor Guard and con-
ducted services at the grave in Cold
Springs cemetery.