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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 1/20/1968
Orlando B. Rumbold, 69, the
father of North Tonawanda May-
or Paul A- Rumbold, died yes
terday afternoon at DeGraff Me-
morial Hospital after a long ill-
ness.
Mr. Rumbold, a retired Niag
ara Falls banker, lived at 287
Wheatfield St.,, North Tonawanda.
He had been hospitalised
about a month.
Mr. Rumbold, a retired Niag-
ara Falls banker, lived at 287
Wheatfield St., North Tonawan-
da. He had been hospitalized
about a month.
He retired in 1959 after a 34-
year career with the Niagara
Permanent Savings and Loan
Association. He Joined the firm
i n 1925 and worked in the Sav-.
i n g s and Mortgage Departments,
When he retired, he was assist-
ant treasurer.
Mr. Rumbold helped to establish
the firm's Veterans Administration
and Federal Housing Administration
mortgage programs.
He was bom in Savannah,
Ga., where his parents had
moved at the turn of the century.
The family returned to Western
North Tonawanda several years
later.
Mr Rumbold was a graduate
of Tonawanda High School, the
Nichols School of Buffalo and of
the Wharton School of Finance
at the University of Pennsylva-
nia.
He was a World War I Army
veteran, a former trustee of the
North Presbyterian Church,
North Tonawanda, and secre-
tary - treasurer of the church
bowling league.
While in college, Mr. Rum-
bold was a charter member of
Post One, American Legion,
Philadelphia. He was also a life
member of Tonawanda Post 264,
American Legion, a member of
Sutherland Lodge 826, F&AM
Tonawanda Commandery 78,
Knights Templar, and the Ton-
awanda Chapter 278 Royal Arch
Masons.
Mr. Rumbold also was a mem-
berof the Pennsylvania Varsity
Club, the Pennsylvania Club of
Western New York, Columbia
Hook and Ladder Company; the
North tonawanda Firemen's Be-
nevolent Association, and the
Motor Corps of the Tonawanda
Red Cross Chapter.
Mr. Rumbold at one time was
an avid lacrosse player, an d
while in college was a member
of the University of Pennsylva-
nia varsity football and lacrosse
teams.
Besides Mayor Rumbold, he is
survived by his widow, the for-
mer Myra Wagenschuetz; a
daughter, Mrs. Jack Burnell,
North Tonawanda; four sisters,
Mrs. High McBride of Wood,
Wis.; Mrs. J. Bennett Wood, Buf-
falo; Mrs. William Johnson, Ton-
awanda, and Mrs. Robert Ken-
dall, of Martinsville, Ind., and
six grandsons.
Services will be conducted at
1:30 p.m. Monday at the Watten-
gel Funeral Home, 307 Oliver St.,
North Tonawanda. Burial will
be in White Chapel Memorial
Park, Amherst.
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1898 - 1968 (~ 69 years)