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- NF Gazette Jul 26, 1944
NORTH TONAWANDA - A happy vacation ended in tragedy last night for Howard Kohler, St., 42, and his family, of 533 East Thompson street, when Mr. Kohler was drowned while fishing off Morgan's Point, Lake Erie, Ont. The body has not been recovered. Mr. Kohler and his wife, Mrs. Lillian Kohler, and two sons, Howard Kohler, Jr., and Richard Kohler, were on vacation with Harvey Minor. 24 Felton street, Tonawanda, at the latter's cottage at Morgan's Point. Mr. Kohler, his son, Howard, Jr., and Mr. Minor were fishing about half a mile off Morgan's Point at 7:30 o'clock last evening. The sea was rough and a heavy wave capsized the boat. Kohler went under but Minor and the boy managed to get hold of him and held him up for some time. Finally he was torn from their grasp by a wave and disappeared from sight. They yelled for help but it was not until 10 o'clock last night that their plight was discovered by persons on shore. Another cottager, whose identity was not learned, put out in a rowboat and brought the exhausted man and boy to shore. They said that they could not have hung on more than a few more minutes. Mr. Kohler was employed as a foreman in the tube department of the Spauldlng Fibre company plant at Tonawanda, where he had worked for the last 22 years. His wife and two sons survive.
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