Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 7/26/1961

Funeral services for Robert
Brydges, 1516 Willow Ave.,
will be held at 2 p.nv, Thursday
at the Cornell and Daggett
Funeral Home.
Rev. David H. Weeks, rector
emeritus pf Epiphany Episcopal
Church, will conduct
services for the 70-year-old
former papermaker who died
Monday (July 24, 1961) on the
way to Memorlal Hospital.

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Niagara Gazette - 7/25/1961

Robert Brydges, 70,
member of * pioneer Niagara
Falls family and veteran
papermakerw it h the
old Defiance Paper Co.,
died Monday (July 24,
1061) on the way to Mer
morial Hospital after, being
stricken at his home at
1516 Willow Ave.
-A. lift-long • resident, Mr.
Brydges was a World War I
veteran, serving with the field
artillery. He was employed at
the Defiance Paper Co. until
its closing, later working as a
chemical operator at the
Niacet plant of the Union
Carbide Metals Co.
Mr. Brydges is a member
of an area family that first
took up residence here in
1824.
He is survived by a brother,
Amos J. (Dick) Brydges, and
a sister, Mrs. Cora Murphy,
this city, arid several nieces
and nephews, including State
Sen. Earl W. Brydges of Wilson.
Funeral services will be
conducted at the Cornell and
Daggett Funeral .Home at a
time to be announced. Burial
will be in Oakwood Cemetery.