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- Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 8/6/1942
The body of Mrs, Ruth Beccue
Bowler, 32, wife of Arthur D. Bowler.
211 North Transit Road, was recovered
from the Barge Canal by
police at 7:30 this morning, less than
two hours after witnesses saw her
plunge from the approach to the
Exchange Street lift bridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo marcinek, 5 Mill
St., restaurant operators, and
Michael Hawley, bridge oprator,
told police the woman jumped into
the water at 6:45. Mr. Marcinek
said he would have gone to her
rescue but he feared he would be
struck by an east-bound oil barge
which was approaching.
Mr. Hawley told police he saw the
woman standing by the bridge for
several minutes and supposed she
was waiting for a ride to an East
Lockport plant.
Patrohnen George Gardner and
John R. Kenny were the first police
on the scene. Later Patrolmen Milton
Nachtrieb and Chester Freeman
arrived. The police emergency boat
was used for grappling.
Dr. Jacob E. Helwig. coroner, North
Tonawanda, issued a certificate of
death by suicide. Friends of the
family said Mrs. Bowler was in ill
health and had been despondent
since the recent death of her father.
Leaves Two Children
Besides her husband, she leaves
two small children, David R. and
Roger A. Beccue; her mother, Mrs.
Otto Beccue, Lockport; three brothers,
Karl Beccue, Buffalo; Alien and
Clay Beccue, Lockport, and one sister,
Miss Naomi Beccue, Lockport
Private services will be held Saturday
at 2 o'clock at the Prudden
Funeral Home, 242 Genesee St
Burial will be In Glenwood Cemetery
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