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- Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 11/30/1959
AKRON - The crushed body of
Town of Newstead farmer Lloyd
Bruning, 48, of Teanow Rd., was
discovered in his car shortly afternoon
Sunday by four hunters in
the Town of Alabama in Genesee-
County,
Hidden by foliage and partially
ausmeigaJ in the old Feeder Canal
near the Tonawanda Indian
Reservation, the car apparently
failed to negotiate a curve in
Judge Rd., near Feeder Rd.
The vehicle had leaped across
the 20-foot-wide canal and
slammed into the steep opposite
bank, its rear in the water. Mr
Bruning was trapped in the front
seat by the steering wheel.
Genesee County Coroner Dr.
Raymond Warn of Oakfield estimated
the time of death as 12:15
Sunday morning. An autopsy performed
In the Genesee County
Laboratory at Batavia revealed
Mr. Bruning died of a crushed
chest.
DEPOSITED MONEY
Mr. Bruning, who left his home
for a hunting trip with $2,200 in
cash, was reported missing about
10:30 Sunday morning by his son
Richard.
Investigation showed that all
but $200 of the money had been
deposited in a bank before Mr.
Brunning left late Saturday night
for Medina.
State Troopers B. C. Mustek
of the Clarence Sub-station and
Warren Terryberry and E. J.
Fechter of the Batavia Barracks
investigated.
Mr. Bruning was born Sept. 4,
1911, in Wolcottsville, a son of the
late Rudolph Bruning and Mrs.
Minnie Bruning of the Tesow Rd.
address.
He was a resident of the Town
of Newstead for the past 29 years
and a member of St. John's
Lutheran Church, Akron.
SURVIVORS LISTED
Besides his mother, survivors
include three sons, Richard,
Donald and John, and three
daughters, Millicent, Shirley and
Betty, all at home; three brothers,
Walter and Albert Middleport,
and Carl, Akron; two sisters,
Mrs. John Schubel, Lockport, and
Mrs. Herbert Reaboldt, Akron,
and five grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Bernhardt
Funeral Home, 130 Main
St., Akron. Contributions may be
made to the St. John's Lutheran
Church Building Fund.
Services will be conducted in
the church Wednesday afternoon
at 1:30. The Rev. H. Howard Ward
will officiate. Burial will be in
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, West
Shelby.
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