4. | LEADERSTORF, Chester George (1.Emma1) was born on 21 Jul 1898 in Tonawanda, Erie County, NY; died on 1 Dec 1965 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
Buffalo Courier Express – 12/3/1965
Funeral services for Chester G. Leaderstorf, 67, active inmany Exempt organizations in the Tonawandas, will be held at 1:30 Saturday afternoonat the Brunner Funeral I SI Home, 156 Robinson St., North Tonawanda. Burialwill be in Elmlawn Cemetery, Town of Tonawanda.
Mr. Leaderstorf, of 17 Hillcrest Rd., Tonawanda, died Wednesdayafter a long illness.
Mail Carrier 38 Years
Mr. Leaderstorf retired in 1958 after 38 years as a mailcarrier in Tonawanda. He and his father, the late William Leaderstorf, operatedLeaderstorf's Sherwin Williams Paper & Paint Store in Tonawanda before heentered the postal service in 1920.
He was president of the Tonawanda Men's Democratic Club atthe time of his death, and past president of Tonawanda's Local Fireman’s Assn.760, National Assn. of Letter Carriers, the National Hose Co. of Tonawanda andthe Tonawanda Firemen's Assn.
Church Board Member
Mr. Leaderstorf was a member of the Board of St. Peter'sLutheran, North Tonawanda, vicepresident of the Exchange the Tonawandas, and secretary-treasurer of the localJunior ?? of United American Mechanics.
He also was a past vice president of the Eldredge BicycleClub Tonawanda, a charter member of the Gastown Sportsmen's Club of Tonawanda,and secretary of the Tonawanda Firemen's Benevolent Assn.
Other firefighter organizations he belonged to were the NewYork State Volunteer Firemen's Assn., the Western New York Volunteer Firemen'sAssn.; and the Southwestern New York Volunteer
He was born in Tonawanda and was a graduate of TonawandaHigh School.
Surviving are his wife, the former, Bessie Schroeder; hismother, Mrs. Emma Leaderstorf of San Diego, Calif.; two sons, Duane of the Townof Tonawanda, and Roger of Tonawanda; a sister, Mrs. John Osborne of San Diego,brother, Herbert Leaderstorf of Tonawanda, and seven grandchildren.
Family/Spouse: SCHROEDER, Bessie Hanna Sophia. Bessie (daughter of SCHROEDER, Heinrich August Ludwig and LOHRKE, Ottila Emily) was born on 22 Jan 1900 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY; died on 27 Jul 1998 in Hamburg, Erie County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 8. LEADERSTORF, Duane C
was born on 1 Sep 1921 in New York; died on 23 Aug 2004 in Buffalo, Erie County, NY.
- 9. LEADERSTORF, Roger D
was born about 1926; died about Nov 2009 in Cheektowaga, Erie County, NY.
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