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Niagara Gazette - 12/12/1961

Gazette - Lockport Bureau
LOCKPORT -Mrs. Amy
C. Buchanan, 67, widow of
former N i a g a r a County
Clerk Ross G. Buchanan
and an active church, school
and civic leader here for a
number of years, died Monday
(Dec. 11, 1961) at Lockport
Memorial H o s p i t a l
after an extended illness.
Mrs. Buchanan made her
home at 71 Washburn St. During
the winter months. She
spent her summers at Chautauqua.
Her husband died in
August 1955.
Born in Holley. Dec. 5. 1894.
daughter of Fred I. and May
Belle Carrier Crane, Mrs.
Buchanan lived here since
she was 2. She was a graduate
of Lockport High School, attended
the National School of
Home Economics, Washington,
D.C, and University of
Buffalo. She was a graduate
of Rochester Institute of Technology.
She served on library staffs
of the Young Women's Christian
Association at Buffalo,
Lockport and Troy. She was
a member of Grace Episcopal
Church where she spent nine
years on the church executive
board and served as treasurer
of the w o m e n ' s auxiliary,
Episcopal Diocese of Western
New York. She was also diocesan
United Thanksgiving
secretary' and a past member
of Episcopal Cottage Board
of Chautauqua.
She was the-past president
of the Washington Hunt PTA,
director of the Niagara-Or-
leans District PTA, and a
nine-vear member of the state
board of the State PTA Con-:
gress.
Surviving are a son. Ward
C. Buchanan. Nixon, N.Y;; two
brothers. Dudley and Evan
Crane, both of Lockport; and
five grandchildren
Very Rev. L. Russell Foster,
dean of Niagara and rector of
Grace Episcopal Church
conduct services at 10:30
Thursday at Prudden & Kandt
Home. Burial will be •
in Glenwood Cemetery

Amy married BUCHANAN, Ross G about 1921. Ross (son of BUCHANAN, Robert B and SILK, Margaret) was born about 1886 in New York; died on 31 Aug 1955 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. BUCHANAN, Ward Crane was born on 31 Oct 1927 in Lockport, Niagara, New York, USA; died on 8 Jun 1997.

Fred + CARRIER, Maybelle. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]