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

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 10/20/1954

GRAND ISLAND, Oct. 20.-
John H. Staley, 46 Greenway Rd.,
chief engineer of the Sylvania Co..
died today. Mr. Staley, who had
been ill for a week, was taken to
Deaconess Hospital, Buffalo, this
morning where he was pronounced
dead on arrival.
Mr. Staley was born in Buffalo
Oct. 26, 1887. He was the son of
Jefferson and Mary Staley, a
pioneer Grand Island family.
He and his wife, the former
Martha Gagemske, whom he married
in 1908, moved to Grand Island
in 1937. .
Besides his wife he is survived by
seven daughters and two tons. His
daughters are Mrs. Marion Rarich,
Cheektowaga; Mrs. Mildred Ehrhardt,
East Aurora; Mrs. Leona
Brackett, Houston, Tex.; Mrs.
Eileen Schapel, Niagara Falls; Mrs.
Virginia Hall, Buffalo; Mrs. Helen
Yensan, Kenmore, and Mrs. Sally
Anne Dworak, Grand Island.
The sons are John, Staley,
Guelph, Ont., and Robert W.
Staley, serving with the U. S.
Navy aboard the aircraft carrier
Philippine Sea.
Mr. Staley also is survived by
three brothers, Ray and Frank
Staley of Grand Island and Rhodell
Staley, Buffalo, and 17 grandchildren.
Mr. Staley was employed by the
Sylvania Co. for 20 years. For
the last 10 years he had.been chief
engineer.
Friends may call at the Harry
A. Wcdekindt Funeral Home. Buffalo.
Interment will be in Trinity
Church Cemetery, Whitehaven Rd

John married GADEMSKI, Martha about 1908. Martha (daughter of Christine) was born about 1891 in New York; died in Dec 1959 in Grand Island, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 12/17/1959

STALEY - Martha Gademsky
Staley, of 1780 Whitehaven Rd.,
Grand Island, N.Y.. wife of the
late John H. W. Staley; mother
of Mrs. Marion Rarick, of Cheek-
towaga, Mrs. Mildred Ehrhardt,
of Erie. Pa., Mrs. Leona Brackett,
of Houston. Tex., Mrs. Eileen
Schapel and Mrs. Sally Anne
Dworak, of Niagara Falls, N.Y.,
Mrs. Virginia Hall, of Buffalo.
Mrs. Helen Yensan, of Grand Island,
C.P.O., Robert Staley, of
San Diego, Calif., and John Sta-
ley, of Detroit, Mich.; sister of
Mrs. Earl Marsh, of Newfane,
N.Y., Mrs. Ernest Miller, of ton-
awanda, Frederick, of Buffalo
and Henry Gademsky, of Ton-
awanda; also survived by 20
grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren. Friends may call
from 2-5 and 7-10 p.m. at Al-
ley
s Whitehaven Memorial Chap-
el, 1879 Whitehaven Rd., at Grand
Island Blvd. Funeral services will
be held at 2 o'clock Saturday af-
ternoon from Trinity E.U.C.
Church, Grand Island. Friends in-
vited. Mrs. Staley was a member of
W.S.W.S. of Trinity E.U.B.
Church, American Legion Aux.
No. 1346 and Grand Island Home
Extension service.

Jefferson married Mary about 1887. Mary was born in Oct 1863 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]