1. | CREWE, Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich was born on 29 Jun 1889 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY (son of CREWE, Ernest Otto Robert and LEHMAN, Auguste Marie); died on 1 Oct 1963 in Tice, Lee County, FL. Notes:
Niagara Gazette - 10/2/1963
William Crewe, a former
city policeman, died Tuesday
(Oct. 1, 1963) in T i c e ,Fla.,
where he had lived since 1951.
He was 74.
Mr, Crewe joined the police
force in 1919 and retired in
1944 after contracting polio.
During many of his years on
the force he worked a beat
around the New York Central
Depot in Falls Street. He also
drove a patrol wagon for several
years.
Former Police Supt. Martin
T. Considine called him the
"neatest man on the force."
He said that Mr. Crewe was
"well liked by everyone he
worked with." Several members
of current police force
remember him and held him
in high regard.
Mr. Crewe left the city in
1951 for Tice, which is a sub-
urb of Fort Myers, Fla. He
had been in a wheelchair since
his polio attack.
In Niagara Falls he was a
member of Epiphany Epis-
copal Church and of Masonic
Lodge No. 132 F&AM.
surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Anna Crewe; a daughter, Mrs.
Marjorie Walker, of this city;
a brother, Rudolph Crewe, of
Model City; a sister, Mrs.
Otto (Matilda) Koller, of Ran-
somville; and four children.
Services will be held Thurs-
day in Tice. Burial will be
there also.
Wilhelm married WAUNT, Anna E about 1920 in Niagara County, NY. Anna was born on 4 Oct 1891 in PA; died on 28 Jun 1991 in Fort Myers, Lee County, FL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- CREWE, Marjorie L was born on 6 Mar 1912 in PA; died on 21 Jan 1995 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY.
Wilhelm married LAWSON, Lillian on 31 Aug 1917 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Lillian (daughter of LAWSON, Fred and HECK, Charlotte) was born in 1896 in Canada; died on 9 Dec 1918 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- CREWE, William Laverne was born on 13 Jun 1918 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 9 Jun 1955 in Kenmore, Erie County, NY.
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