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Niagara Gazette - 10/19/1958

Funeral services will be held
Monday for Herbert Vockroth,
59, whose body was recovered
from the Niagara River Saturday,
two weeks after he plunged
to his death over the Falls.
A native of Brooklyn, Mr.
Vockroth had resided in Niagara
Falls for 48 years and was employed
as a laboratory technician
for 32 years at the Titanium
Alloy Manufacturing Division
of the National Lead Co.
He was a member of the company's
25-Year Club.
Services will be conducted at
1 p.m. at the Cobler Funeral
Home at 1 p.m. by the Rev.
Arthur H. Schmoyer. Burial will
be in Acacia Park Cemetery,
Tonawanda. ^
On Oct. 6 a group of tourists
reported seeing a man
plunge into the rapids at Terrapin
Point. The man was later
tentatively identified as Mr.
Vockroth when a jacket containing
a set of car keys was discovered
near the scene and led
police to an abandoned car registered
in his name.
His body was discovered at
10 a.m. Saturday by Maid of
the Mist employes near the company's
dock on the Canadian
side of the river.
Surviving is his wife, Mrs.
Hazel E. Vockroth, 2710,Whitney
Ave.

Herbert married BEHRENS, Hazel Estelle on 9 Sep 1941 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Hazel (daughter of BEHRENS, Louis Henry and MANTE, Wilhelmine Fredricke) was born on 12 Aug 1904 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died in Mar 1979 in Fox Lake, Lake County, IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]