Family/Spouse: HILEMAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Shirley married GRAHAM, Edward S on 13 Oct 1951 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 9/26/1951

Engagements
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Voelker, Witmer
mad, announce the coming marriage
of their daughter, Shirley Mae,
to Mr. Edward Graham, Jr., son of
Mrs. Selma I. Graham, Lincoln
street. Town of Niagara, and Mr.
Edward S. Graham, Pine avenue,
The marriage will lake place October
13 at the Bacon Memorial
Presbyterian church, with areception
following at the Stone Castle,
Ferry avenue.

ALSO

Niagara Gazette - 11/7/1951

MRS. EDWARD GRAHAM, JR.
- Is the former Miss Shirley
Voelker, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Voelker, Witmer road.
She exchanged marriage vows
with Mr. Graham, son:of Mrs.
Selma Graham, Lincoln place, and
Mr. Edward Graham, Pine avenue,
at Bacon Memorial Presbyterian
church. The Rev. Ray K.
Hallin officiated at the candlelight
ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Graham
will make their home at the Mentz
apartments

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Niagara Gazette - 12/26/1962

Fred Voelker,. 52, of 3118 Saunders Settlement Rd.,
Sanborn, was pronounced dead on arrival today at Memorial
Hospital where he was taken after a car he was
driving left Ward Road, near Saunders Settlement Road,
Town of Lewiston, and crashed into a ditch and
telephone pole.
State police at the Military
Road substation said the ac-
cident happened as Voelker
was en route to work about
7:30 a.m.
Coroner F. Eugene Ingram
said he was withholding a
death certificate pending an
investigation.
State police said there was
a possibility the man may
have been stricken ill before
the accident. ,
A native of Niagara Falls,
Mr. Voelker was employed as
an electrician for the Electrometallurgical
Division of the
Union Carbide Chemicals
Corp.
He lived most of his life in
Niagara Falls before moving
to Sanborn. He was the
youngest of five sons of the
late Fred and Sarah Voelker.
Two brothers. Lawrence and
Roy, predeceased him.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Viola Voelker; two
daughters, Mrs. Fred (Charlotte)
Bruening, Niagara Falls,
and Mrs. Edward (Shirley)
Graham, St. Paul, Minn.; two
brothers, Chester Voelker,
Fort Latidcrdale ,FlaM and
Marvin Voelker, this city;
seven grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews.,
Funeral arrangements are
being completed at the Pike
and Jones Funeral Home,
Sanborn.

Frederick + COLLINS, Viola M. Viola (daughter of COLLINS, Walter L and NEWMAN, Carrie May) was born on 5 May 1911 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY; died on 1 Sep 2007 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; was buried on 6 Sep 2007 in Mt View Cemetery, Town of Cambria, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Niagara Gazette - 7/8/1941

Frederick W. Voelker. of 820 Willow
avenue. 74-year-old member of
a pioneer Niagara county family,
died In Memorial hospital this
morning.
Bom In the town of Wheatfleld,
Mr. Voelker came to Niagara Falls
as a child and lived here since. He
was employed for 40 years as a foreman
at the plant of the Aluminum
Company of America, retiring ten
years ago. He was a member of
Bellevue Lodge, No. 316, I. O. O. F.,
and the Young Men's club of Zlon
Evangelical Lutheran church. He
was also a member cf the Aluminum
company's 25-Year club.
Surviving him are five sons,
Chester A., Mllford Roy. Lawrence
E. Marvin E. and Frederick W.
Voelker. Jr. a brother. William
Voelker. of the Saunders Settlement
roAd. and four sisters. Mrs. Augusta
Schweitzer, of this city; Mrs.
Georglana Sattleberg. of Youngstown:
Miss Emma Voelker, of the
Saunders Settlement road, and Mrs.
Margaret Mulvey, In California.
Eleven grandchildren also survive.
The funeral will be held from
the family home at 2 p.m. Thurs-
day with services at Zion Evangelical
Lutheran church, Michigan avenue
and Tenth street, at 2:30 p.m.
Burial will be in Riverdale ceme-
tery.

Frederick married WATTS, Sarah on 25 Oct 1893 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Sarah (daughter of WATTS, Joseph and HOPKINS, Katherine) was born on 26 Jul 1869 in Lincoln, Ontario, Canada; died on 12 Apr 1938 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Riverdale Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY - Section 7. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 4/13/1938

VOELKER - In this city, April 12, 1938,
Sarah Voelker, age 69 years, beloved
wife of Fred W. Voelker, Sr.; mother of
Chester, Roy, Lawrence, Marvin and
Fred, Jr.; sister of Mrs. Charles Nichols
and George Watts, all of this city. She
is also survived by 11 grandchildren.
Funeral services from the late residence.
820 Willow avenue. Friday. April 15. at
3 p. m. and at 3:30 from the Zion
Lutheran church. Michigan avenue and
Tenth street. Rev. Arthur Schmoyer officiating.
Interment In Rlverdale cemetery.
Deceased was a member of the
Missionary Society of the Zion Lutheran
church.

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Niagara Gazette - 11/15/1960

COLLINS-Walter L. of the Ridge Rd.,
Town of Lewlston, at Buffalo November
14, 1960, age 92 years. Father
of Mrs. Jasper Raymond of Niagara
Falls, N.Y., Mrs. Fred Roberts of
Ransomville, N.Y., Earl Collins of
Sanborn, N.Y., Mrs. Edith Scott pf
Niagara Falls, Mrs. Fred Voelker
of Sanborn and the late Mrs. Frances
Bigger of Niagara Falls, Ont. Also
survived by 8 grandchildren and 28
great grandchildren. Funeral Thursday
at 2 p.m., November 17 from the
Hardison Funeral Home, South Lake
St., Ransomvllle, N.Y. The Rev.
James Wilson of the Dickersonvllle
Methodist Church officiating.. Interment
Mount View Cemetery at.Pekln,
N. Y.

Walter + NEWMAN, Carrie May. Carrie (daughter of NEWMAN, Smith J and Mary L) was born on 31 May 1872 in Town of Cambria, Niagara County, NY; died on 24 Oct 1939 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 10/24/1939

RANSOMVILLE. Oct. 24 - Mrs.
Carrie May Collins, wife of Walter
Collins, Ridge road. Ransomville,
died suddenly at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. Fred Voelker. Saunder's
Settlement road. Monday evening,
due to a heart ailment.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
the family home, Ridge road, with
burial in Mt. View cemetery.
Mrs. Collins was born in Pekin
on May 31, 1872. She was a member
of the Pekin Methodist church,
and an active merrlber of the Dickersonville
Ladies aid.
Surviving Mrs. Collins, besides her
husband, are five daughters and a
son, Mrs. Jack Raymond, Mrs. Leland
Scott and Mrs. Fred Voelker,
of Niagara Falls, Mrs. Fred Roberts,
Ransomville. Mrs. Hewert Biggar,
Niagara Falls, Ont, and Earl
Collins, of Pekin; two brothers, John
Newman, Lockport, and Charles
Newman, of the Saunders Settlement
road.. She was a sister also
of the late Mrs. Wilbur Nichols.
Lewiston, Mrs. Howard Bradlee,
Grand Rapids, Mich., and Mrs.
Frank Cornell, Niagara Falls, N. Y.

August + MESSING, Johanna. Johanna (daughter of MESSING, Theodore Sebastian and KLEIN, Elisabetha Margaretha) was born on 1 Dec 1836 in Prussia; died on 14 Jul 1893 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Riverdale Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY - Section 7. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph + HOPKINS, Katherine. Katherine was born in Sep 1841 in Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Smith + Mary L. Mary was born about 1839 in PA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]