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Veronica O. Brady, of Lockport, NY passed away on Sunday, May 17, 2015. She was born November 10, 1919, the daughter of the late Charles and Mary (Blackley) Foltz. She married Norman Brady on November 9, 1940 and they lived in Lockport their entire lives. Norman predeceased her on November 5, 2012. Veronica graduated from Lockport High School in 1938. She was a longtime member of All Saint's Parish, (St. Patrick's Church), and was involved in charitable organizations there, such as the Ladies of Charity and the Altar and Rosary Society. She was a member of the Red Hat Society and she volunteered for the Red Cross at local Blood Drives and worked for the Board of Elections on Election Days. She enjoyed going to yard sales and sharing her treasures with her family, listening to Blue Grass music and dressing up for Halloween in one of her many costumes. She loved a party and was always ready to celebrate. She is survived by her daughter, Mary Demidovich of North Tonawanda, and sons Timothy (Dorothy) of Nyack, NY and Damien (Mary Kay) of Lockport. She is also survived by her brother, Paul (Jean) Foltz of Lockport and her sister-in laws Hazel Calos of Lockport and Elsie Brady of North Tonawanda. She is also survived by her 12 grandchildren; Nickolas Demidovich, III of Crystal City, VA, Catherine (Andrew) Bone of Setauket, NY, Peter Demidovich of Melville, NY, Natalie (Michael) Barnwell of Lockport, Patrick Sullivan of Ithaca, NY, Sean (Allison) Sullivan of Manomet, MA, Kelly (Joel) Janulewicz of Petaluma, CA, Ian (Amanda) Brady of San Diego, CA, Emily Brady of Nyack, NY, Damien B. (Jennifer Hooper) Brady of Buffalo, NY, Erin (Joshua Robb) Brady of Lockport, NY and Austin (Samantha) Brady of Delaware, OH. In addition, she had 18 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her daughter Veronica "Babe" Sullivan, son-in-law Nickolas Demidovich, her siblings and their spouses; Anna Louise (Walter) Shulock, Olga (Jack) Dodge, Charles (Joyce) Foltz, Ilene (Harold) Mosher, Georgene (Robert) Costello; her brother and sisters-in-law, Mary (Alec) Puff, James Brady, Ethel (Wilbur) Chambers, Anthony Calos and Margaret (Thomas) Gormley. Relatives and friends may call from 2-4 and 7-9 on Thursday, May 21, 2015 at Prudden and Kandt Funeral Home, 242 Genesee Street, Lockport where prayers will be offered Friday, May 22nd at 10:30 AM followed by a Mass of Christian Burial to be celebrated in All Saints Parish, 76 Church Street, Lockport on Friday, May 22, 2015 at 11:00AM. Interment immediately following at Glenwood Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Veronica's memory to the Lockport CareNet Pregnancy Center, 229 East Avenue, Lockport, NY 14094. Please visit www.pruddenandkandt.com to leave an online condolence to the family.

Veronica married BRADY, Norman H on 16 Nov 1940 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. Norman (son of BRADY, Peter Reid and CAMPBELL, Margaret) was born about 1916 in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 11/16/1940

The marriage of Miss Veronica
Olivia Foltz, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. Austin Foltz of 245 South
Transit street, to Norman H.
Brady, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Brady of 41 Harvey avenue, was solemnized'
Saturday morning at 11
o'clock In St. Patrick's rectory, the
Rev. James B. Bray performing
the ceremony.
The bride wore a dubbonet velvet
suit with ice blue blouse and
I dubonnet accessories. She wore a
corsage of pink roses and pompons.

Miss Anne Louise Foltz, maid of
honor, wore a beige wool crepe dress
made princess style and black accessories.
Her corsage was of yellow
roses and pompons. Walter
Shulock was best man.
Mrs. Foltz, mother of the bride,
wore a mulberry crepe dress with
black accessories and Mrs. Brady
wore dubonnet crepe trimmed in
gold and black accessories. Each
wore a corsage of white pompons.
Following the ceremony dinner
was served at the Park hotel. Mr.
and Mrs. Brady left for an eastern
trip and after their return will
make their home at 158 Waterman
street.

1. BRADY, Mary
2. BRADY, Timothy
3. BRADY, Damien

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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 8/4/1952

A resident of Lockport all his life though his duties with
the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service took him to
Niagara Falls as well as many other parts of the country. C.
Austin Foltz. 61. of 245 South Transit St.. died Sunday morning
at 1:45 at Lockport City Hospital shortly after suffering a heart
attack at his home. He had been ill for some time with a heart
condition.
Mr. Foltz, who had been in the
Immigration Service 33 years, had
been officer in charge at the Rainbow,
Whirlpool Rapids and Queenston-
Lewiston bridges and the Niagara
- On - The - Lake - t o - Lewiston
ferry since September, 1637. His
first assignment in June. 1919, was
on a temporary basis as stenographer
at the Niagara Falls office, ad-
Joining the Lower Arch bridge, now
the Whirlpool Rapids bridge. Later
he was a member of the U. S.
Border Patrol before his appointment
as an immigration Inspector.
Following two years' work
at the bridges ta the Falls
district. Mr. Foltz began a long
period of Investigation which
took him to Detroit. New York
City and other sections of the
Metropolitan New York area,
Buffalo and Scranton, P l y -
month and WiIkes-Barre, Pa.
There he worked on cases of
alien-smuggling, white-slave racketeering,
ship-Jumping and count-
less other immigration law viola-
tions. In subsequent years he was
senior officer at the former Falls
View bridge and in September 1931
was placed in charge of warrant
work and prosecutions at the serv-
ice's district headquarters, Buffalo.
A period as assistant officer in
charge at Niagara Falls and of-
ficer in charge of the Peace
Bridge, Black Rock and Ft. Erie-
to-Buffalo ferry followed before his
appointment to his last post.
Born in Lockport March 2, 1891,
Mr. Foltz was the son of the late
William M. and Anna Louise
O'Connell Foltz. His father was a
cigar manufacturer and a former
Lockport alderman.
Mr. Foltz attended the old High
Street and Intermediate Schools
and received his stenography cer-
tificate in 1904 from the former
Ryan Business Institute in Lock-
port. For a number ofo years he
worked as a stenographer at the
office of the Iroquois Gas Corpora-
tion at Buffalo and the Carbor-
undum Commpany, Niagara Falls.
Returning to Lockport, he was in
charge of the payroll department
at the Simonds Saw and Steel Com-
pany plant.
After a year's service during
World War I in the United
states Army at Camp Beaure-
gard, La., he returned to Si-
monds for a short time be-
fore entering the immigration
service.
He was a member of B. Leo
Dolan Post 410, American Legion,
and an honoraary member of the
Niagara Falls and Tonawanda Po-
lice and sheriff's Departments. He
was a member of the North End
Athletic club and during his youth
was a star football and baseball
player as well as a member of a
relay racing team.
Mr. Foltz is survived by his
wife, Mary E. Blackley Foltz; two
sons, Charles A. Jr., and Paul;
five daughters, Mrs. Norman H.
Bradley, Mrs. John Dodge, Mrs.
Harold Mosher, Miss Georgene M.
Foltz, all of Lockport and Mrs.
Walter F. Shulock, Vero Beach,
Fla.; also 11 grandchildren and a
brother, Roger H. Foltz of Lock-
port.
Services will be held Wednesday
at 9 o'clock at Kennedy Funeral
Home, 122 Walnut St., and 9:30
at St. Patrick's Church. Burial
will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery.

Charles married BLACKLEY, Mary E about 1917. Mary (daughter of BLACKLEY, George N and WESTERMAN, Mary G) was born on 2 Feb 1897 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY; died on 12 Nov 1956 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 1956 Oct/Nov

LOCKPORT - Mrs. Mary E.
Foltz, 59, of 154 S. Transit St..
a native of this city and widow
of C. Austin Foltz, who served
as officer in charge of immigration
and naturalization at Niagara
Falls for many years, died Monday
(Nov. 12, 1956) at her home
after a long illness.
Mrs. Foltz was born here Feb.
2, 1897, a daughter of George and
Mary Westerman Blackley.. She
attended St Patrick's School and
St. Joseph's Academy. Her husband
died in 1952.
Surviving her are two' sons and
five daughters, Charles A. Foltz,
Paul Fokz, Mrs. Norman Brady,
Mrs. John Dodge, Mrs. Harold
Mosher, Mrs. Robert Costcllo, all
of Lockport; Mrs. Walter Shulock,
Vero Beach, Fla.; her mother, Mrs.
Mary Blackley, Niagara Falls; a
sister and two brothers, Ma Matthew
Hanrahan and George F.
Blackley, both of Niagara Falls,
and Carl W. Blackley, Lockport.
There are 15 grandchildren.
A Requiem Mass will be celebrated
at 10 a.m. Thursday at SL
Patrick's Church after prayers at
9:30 a.m. at the Kennedy Funeral
Home, 122 Walnut St. Burial will
be in St. Patrick's Cemetery.

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 8/25/1945

SI for the past four months.
George M. Blackley. 70. of 1661
Ontario Ave., Niagara Palls, a
former resident of this city, died
today in Lockport City Hospital
where he had been a patient for
four days.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs
George Blackley, he was employed
by the former Oliver Brothers
bedstead factory and the former
Fibre Corporation here. He was
a Republican in politics and had
worked at the Barge Canal locks
here before he went to Niagara
Palls 22 years ago. For 12 years
prior to his illness he was employed
at the Niagara Palls city
garage.
Surviving are his wife. Mary O.
Westerman Blackley; two sons,
Carl W. Blackley. of Lockport, and
George P. Blackley of Niagara
Palls; two daughters, Mrs. C. Austin
Polta, Lockport, and Mrs. Matthew
J.Hanrahanof Niagara Palls;
three brothers, John, Robert and
Charles Blackley: and one sister,
Mrs. Oscar Wyles all of Lockport
The funeral will be held Tuesday
at 6:30 at the Kennedy Funeral
Home, 122 Walnut St., and at
9 o'clock at St. Anthony's Church.
Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery.

George married WESTERMAN, Mary G about 1896. Mary (daughter of WESTERMAN, William and Elizabeth) was born on 13 Jun 1877 in PA; died on 18 Oct 1963 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 10/18/1963

Mrs. Mary G. Blackley, 86,
formerly of 39 Harvey Ave.,
died this morning following a
long illness.
Mrs. Blackley was born June
13, 1877, in Pennsylvania, the
daughter of William and Elizabeth
Westerman. She came
to Lockport as a child and
lived here until 1923 when she
went to Niagara Falls. After
traveling for two or three
years, she returned to Lockport
in I960. She was the widow of
George Blackley, who died in
1845.
She is survived by two sons,
Carl W. of Lockport and George
F. of Niagara Falls, and one
daughter. Mrs. Matthew Hanrahan
of Niagara Falls, 16 grandchildren,
32 great - grandchildren
and two great - greatgrandchildren.
Friends will be received
at the Joseph M. Kennedy Funeral
Home, Inc., 122 Walnut St.,
where funeral services will be
held at 8:30 a.m. Monday and
9 a.m. at St. Mary's Church-.
Burial will be in Glenwood
Cemetery.

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Lockport NY Daily Journal - 3/6/1880

BLACKLEY-In this city, on Friday evening,
March 6th; 1880, at 8 o'clock, at his residence,
on William St., George Blackley, aged 38 years
Funeral at the 2d Ward Presbyterian church, at
1 P.M. tomorrow (Sunday).

George + WOODS, Ellen. Ellen was born about 1849 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William + Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]