Family/Spouse: VELZY, David G. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 11/5/1962

GRAND ISLAND-Funeral services will be conducted
Wednesday for the town's first fire chief, Thomas S.
Benton Jr., 59, of 2677 Staley Rd., who died Sunday
(Nov. 4, 1962) at Kenmore Mercy Hospital He had been
in poor health.
Mr. Benton was fire chief
from 1938 to 1943. He was a
charter member of the Grand
Island Volunteer' Fire Co. and
a life member of the Erie
County Firemen's Association..
For the last 25 years,.Mr.
Benton was employed by the
Grand Island School System.
He was one of the system's
first bus drivers, and for the
last 10 years, served as custodian
at the Kaegebein Elementary
School. At one time,
Mr. Benton worked for the
Semet-Solvay Co., B u f f a l o,
and conducted a water business
on the island.
Mr. Benton was born in Buffalo
and lived on the Island
for 30 years.
. In addition to his widow,
Alice Ackerman Benton, surviving
are a son, Thomas S.
Benton III, Staley Road; three
daughters, Mrs. David Velzy,
Akron, Ohio, and Nancy and
Christine Benton, at home;
and two grandchildren; four
sisters, Mrs. Lawrence Bletzer,
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Mrs.
Kenneth McKinley, Mrs. Carl
Rodler, and Mrs. Frank Mari
nell, all of Buffalo; and three
brothers, Richard H., Wesley
E. and Donald C. Benton, all
of Buffalo.
Rev. John Larsen, pastor of
Trinity Evangelical U n i t ed
Brethren Church, will conduct
a service at 2 p.m., Wednesday
at the Campbell Funeral
Home, 2067 Niagara St., Buffalo.
Burial will be Staley
Cemetery, W. River Road.

Thomas + ACKERMAN, Alice. Alice (daughter of ACKERMAN, Henry and STALEY, Elvina) was born on 1 Aug 1908 in New York; died on 26 Dec 1994 in Grand Island, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married WILSON, Grace about 1901. Grace (daughter of Kate) was born about 1882 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 5/15/1944

GRAND ISLAND-Henry Ackerman,
68, died suddenly of a heart
attack Saturday evening at his
home in the Staley road. Mr. Ackerman
was bom on Grand Island, a
son of pioneer settlers, and had resided
here all his life.
In former years he was a successful
farmer and for more than 20
years served as town superintendent
of highways, for the last few years
he had been employed on the south
Grand Island bridge.
Mr. Ackerman is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Elvlna Staley Ackerman.
at home; three daughters . Mrs.
Alice Benton, of Grand Island.
Mrs. Andrus. of Buffalo, and Miss
Betty Ackerman, at home; one son,
Lorn Ackerman of Kenmore, N. Y.
Funeral services will be held at
the home Wednesday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. The Rev. Marvin Rickert
will officiate. Interment will be
In Staley cemetery.

Henry married STALEY, Elvina about 1908. Elvina was born about 1892 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]