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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 3/15/1972

WIRTH - Nina B. (Branch)
8396 Park Ave., Gasport, N.Y.,
passed away March 14, 1972, at
the Medina Memorial Hospital.
She is survived by her husband,
William F. Wirth; one son,
Dwight B. Wirth, Gasport,
N.Y-: one daughter, Mrs. Carl
(Grace) Seib, Lockport; four
grandchildren; seven great
grandchildren; several nieces
and nephews. Friends may call
at the Bream Funeral Home,
Main St., Gasport, N.Y.
Wednesday, 7-9 p.m. and
Thursday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.,
where funeral services will be
held on Friday, March 17, at
11 a.m. Flowers gratefully
declined. Memorials may be
made to National Multiple
Sclerosis Society of Western
New York Chapter, c-o Statler
Hilton, suite 261, Buffalo, N.Y,
14202. Interment in Wrights
Corners Cemetery.

Nina married WIRTH, William F about 1914. William was born on 13 Jan 1889 in IL; died in Mar 1982 in Gasport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. WIRTH, Dwight B was born about 1917 in New York.
2. WIRTH, Grace Martha was born about 1921 in New York.

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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 5/2/1932

Funeral services were held yes-
terday afternoon for William E
Branch, commission merchant and
produce dealer, at his home on the
Hess road, town of Newfane, and
burial was in Wright's Corners
cometTV. The death of Mr. Branch
last Thursday removed one of the
best known and most prominent
fruit dealers of the Niagara fruit
belt of a few years aeo.
Mr. Branch had been engaged in
the commission business for the past
forty years, and during that time
was one of the biggest operators in
this part of the country, the fruit
bearing his labels going to practically
every part of the United States
and Canada and foreign countries.
He retired from active business
about a year ago and had been in
failing health for several months.
He was born on the Hess road, on
a farm about a mile from the home
where he passed away Thursday.
His parents were pioneer residents
of the town of Newfane. When he
was two years old, they removed to
Michigan, but returned to Niagara
county when Mr. Branch was fifteen
He engaged In farming for a short
time and then entered the commission
business.
Operated in Lockport.
At various times he maintained
offices in Lockport, Newfane and
Gasport, and at one time was in
business with a son. In the ownership
and operation of a cold storage
plant at the latter place. He
deail chiefly in apples, shipping
many thousands of barrels from this
counts-, but in the Sprina and early
summer mon'hs he made annual
trips through the south as the representative
of the C. C. Taft company
of Des Moines, Iowa, buying
strawberries, tomatoes and other
fruit and produce. He was weD
known from Virginia to Texas.
He was a member of the Tuscarora
Club of this city, the Macabeee
and a former member of Lock-
I port Lodge. B. P. O Elks. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev.
Charles B. Bates, pastor of the Free
Methodist church of this city, where
Mr Branch was an attendant.
The bearers were. Dennis W. Daly,
John F. LeVan and Tomothy J.
OShaughnessy of this city and Benjamin
Richards. William Shaw and
William Cole of Newfane.
He leaves his widow, Martha L.
Branch, two sons. Ohm W, and
Charles W. Branch, and four daughters.
Mae and Ora L. all of Newfane.
Mrs. William Wuth and Mrs.
Paul Sutton of this city. and three
sisters Mrs Wesley Church Miami.
Fla, Mrs Burt Demerest Lockport
and Mrs Fred Brauer, Buffalo and
nine grandchildren.

William married BOWMAN, Martha L about 1878. Martha was born in Mar 1856 in New York; died on 7 Jan 1934 in Town of Newfane, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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- 1/8/1934

Martha L. Branch passed away at
her home, Newfane, N. Y, January
7, 1934. She leaves two sons and
four daughters, Glen W, Charles W.,
Mae and Ora L„ all of Newfane,
Mrs. William Wirth and Mrs. Paul
Sutton of Lockport, one brother,
Charles Bowman of Hartland, nine
grandchildren. Funeral services will
be held from the home, Wednesday,
January 10th at 2:30 p.m. Burial
Wright's Corners cemetery.

Harding + Eliza. Eliza was born about 1836 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]