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- Niagara Gazette - 12/29/1956
LOCKPORT-The death Friday .. .
of a Town of Lockport youth
brought the 1956 fatal accident
toll to 27, compared to 20 at this
time last year, and added bleak
prospects of keeping low death
totals as the year neared its end.
Services for Wallace Werth, 18,
of Leete Rd., who died Friday
(Dec. 28. 1956) in Lockport Memorial
Hospital- of injuries suffered
in an auto mishap Thursday,
will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at
the Prudden & Kandt Funeral
Home. Burial will be in Wright's
Comers Cemetery.
The youth, one of two taken to
the hospital after striking a tree
in Plank road just inside the city
limits, was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Everett Werth. He had come
home Sunday after being discharg-
ed from Army service.
Wallace was a passenger in an
auto driven by Frederick William
Behm, 19. Both the driver and
another passenger, Gary Caine, 15,
escaped injury. A third passenger,
Ernest Behm, 17, brother of the
driver, was treated for minor in-
juries.
The Werth youth was a member
of Lockport's Co. K, 390th Infantry
Regiment, Army Reserve,
since December 1955. He entered
service in July this year, after
graduation from Lockport Senior
High School. He was discharged
Dec. 21 after completing six
months active reserve training.
He attended school in Gasport
and at North Park School here
before entering high school. He
was an individual 4-H Club mem-
ber. He was a member of the
Wright's Corners Presbyterian
Church.
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by two brothers, Norman
E. Werth, Warren's Corners, and
Richard Werth, at home; a sister.
Mrs. Donald Hill, Rochester; his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
Werth, Lockport, and Mr. and
Mrs. Squire Gursslin. Middleport.
There are two nieces and two
nephews.
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