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- Niagara Gazette - 4/6/1962
Gazette Lockport Bureau
LOCKPORT A former
volunteer firefighter and employe
of Harrison Radiator
Division, G e n e r a l Motors
Corp., William A. Sprung, 78,
of 408 N. Transit St., died
Thursday (April 5, 1962) at
home.
Mr. Sprung was a charter
member and past president
of the Lockport Exempt Firemen's
Association. He retired
10 years ago after working
more than 30 years as a shear
operator at Harrison.
Born in Wolcottsville, May
25, 1883, Mr. Sprung was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Sprung. He was a member of
Trinity Lutheran Church.
Survivors i n c l u d e two
daughters, Miss Viola Sprung
and Mrs. Clay G. Beccue;
three sons, William H., Harold
O. and Karl W. Sprung,
all of Lockport; four sisters,
Mrs. Bertha Marnitz, Mrs.
Wendel Kater and Miss Emma
Sprung, all of Lockport,
and Mrs. Harry Dillingham,
Buffalo; three brothers, Walter
Sprung, Lockport, and
Gustave and Albert Sprung,
both of Buffalo; nine grandchildren
and several nieces
and nephews.
Services will be coducted
at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Prudden
and Kandt Funeral Home
by Rev. Herman Meier, pastor
emeritus of Trinity Lutheran
Church. Burial will be in Cold
Spring Cemetery.
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