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Niagara Gazette - 6/18/1960

Bus Driver's
Rites Monday
Gazette Lockport Bureau
LOCKPORT—Services for
Herbert R. Aiken, 53, of 96
Slayton Settlement Rd., will
be held at 2 p.m. Monday at
the Gaul Funeral Home. Mr.
Aiken suffered a fatal heart
attack Friday (June 17, 1960)
while driving an empty school
bus.
The Rev. Clarence E. Gee,
D.D., of Wrights Corners Presbyterian
Church, will officiate.
Burial will be in Wrights
Cornets-Cemetery.-—
Mr. Aiken was stricken en
route to Lockport Friday after
discharging a group of students
at Royalton-Hartland
Central S c h o o l . The bus
crashed Into a tree in Mountain
Rd. just west of Peet St.,
Town of Royalton.
Born in Lockport Oct. 8,
1908, Mr. Aiken was the son
of the late Richard and Clara
Richards Aiken. He operated
a farm in Slayton Settlement
Rd. until his retirement in
1958. For the last four years,
he operated a bus in the Roy-
Hart district for the Ridge
Rd. Express Co.
Survivors include his wife,
the former F l o r e n c e E.
Swann; a son, Herbert R. Aiken
Jr., Lockport; three daughters,
Mrs. Herbert Reed and
Mrs. Robert Wemple, both of
Olcott; and Mrs. Robert
Branch, Lockport; three
brothers Stacy and Raymond
Aiken, both of Lockport, and
Elton Aiken, Buffalo; two sis-'
ters, Miss Florence Aiken and
Miss Grace Aiken, both of
Lockport, and 13 grandchildren.

Herbert married SWANN, Florence E before 1933. Florence (daughter of SWANN, Harry J and KAHLER, Bessie) was born on 20 Nov 1909; died in May 1975 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. AIKEN
2. AIKEN, Shirley Elene
3. AIKEN, Joan C

Richard married RICHARDS, Clara E about 1901. Clara was born about 1886 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]