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- Niagara Gazette - 8/21/1935
MARTINSVILLE, Aug. 21.-Yesterday
at 5:40 p. m. the Rescue Fire
company of Martinsville was called
to the Krull Coal company where a
grass fire was threatening the main
building. The fire was extinguished
without damage.
Final rites were held Monday afternoon
for Norman Sahr, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Sahr, of 386 Falls
boulevard. Services were held at the
home of his parents and burial was
at S t Paul's cemetery- Rev. Frederick
Hinncrs, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran
church, officiated.
Saturday at 2 p. m. the 8t. Paul's
Ladles Aid society will hold a baked
goods sale at the Ford building on
the Niagtua Fails boulevard. A fine
variety of baked goods will be offered
for sale. Numerous committees have
been named by Mrs. Louis Dornfeld,
president of the society. The public
is invited.
ALSO
Niagara Gazette - 8/16/1935
MARTINSVILLE, Aug. 16.-Norman
A- Sahr, 31 years old, of 386
Falls boulevard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Sahr, died this morning at
11:45 o'clock at the DeOraff Memorial
hospital, North Tonawanda, from
burns received at a fire on August
2 at the Avenue Service station.
Mr. Sahr was one of the proprietors
of the station and while Eric Brunnlng,
15, employed as a car greaser,
was working in the greasing pit a fire
broke out. The boy was surrounded
by flames and unable to get out of
the pit. Mr. Sahr leaped to his assistance
and was terribly burned
about the hands, arms, shoulders and
face. Brunning, although badly
burned, will recover, attendants say.
Besides his parents, Mr. Sahr is
survived by a sister, Ostil Sahr, and
a brother, Herbert Sahr, both at
home. He was a life long member of
St. Paul, Lutheran church. The funeral
arrangements have not been
completed.
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Abt 1904 - 1935 (~ 31 years)