1. | BICKER, William James was born on 27 Aug 1895 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY; died on 4 Nov 1971 in Lockport Memorial Hospital, Lockport, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 11/4/1971
William J. Bicker, 76, formerly
active with volunteer
firemen's associations, died this
morning at Lockport Memorial
Hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Bicker was born Aug. 27,
1895, in Lockport, a son of John
and Mary (Burke) Bicker.
He was in the U.S. Army in
World War I.
M r. Bicker worked at
Harrison Radiator Division,
General Motors Corp., for 47
years, before retiring in 1960.
He worked as a shear operator
there.
After retiring Mr. Bicker
operated the Exempt Volunteer
Firemen's Association Club on
Elm Street, until it closed Aug.
I, 1971.
Mr. Bicker was a member
and served as president for 23
years with the Lockport Exempt
Volunteer Firemen's Association.
He was a member and past
president of the Niagara County
Volunteer Firemen's Association,
a member of the New
York State Volunteer Firemen's
Association, the Western New
York Volunteer Firemen's Association
and the Frontier Volunteer
Firemen's Association in
Niagara Falls.
He was also a member of St.
John the Baptist Church; the
Old Guard; B. Leo Dolan Post
410, American Legion; VFW,
No. 2535; B.P.O.E. No. 41; and
a member and past commander
of World War I Barracks No.
1334.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Ella S. Bicker; a daughter and
a son, Mrs. Thomas (Bernice)
Hammond and Wallace A.
Bicker; a sister and a brother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts and
Stephen Bicker; eight grandchildren;
one great granddaughter;
several nieces and
nephews.
Friends may call from 7 to
9 p.m. tonight and from 2 to
4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow
at the Prudden and Kandt
Funeral Home, 242 Genesee St.
Funeral services will be he'd
Where Saturday at 8:45 a.m. and
at 9:15 a.m. at St. John the
Baptist Church. Burial will be
in Cold Spring Cemeterv.
Recitation of the Rosary will
be at 8:15 p.m. Friday.
William married KRAUSE, Ella S on 20 Sep 1922 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. Ella (daughter of KRAUSE, Charles) was born on 7 Dec 1901; died on 22 Sep 2002 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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