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- Niagara Gazette - 11/5/1962
GRAND ISLAND-Funeral services will be conducted
Wednesday for the town's first fire chief, Thomas S.
Benton Jr., 59, of 2677 Staley Rd., who died Sunday
(Nov. 4, 1962) at Kenmore Mercy Hospital He had been
in poor health.
Mr. Benton was fire chief
from 1938 to 1943. He was a
charter member of the Grand
Island Volunteer' Fire Co. and
a life member of the Erie
County Firemen's Association..
For the last 25 years,.Mr.
Benton was employed by the
Grand Island School System.
He was one of the system's
first bus drivers, and for the
last 10 years, served as custodian
at the Kaegebein Elementary
School. At one time,
Mr. Benton worked for the
Semet-Solvay Co., B u f f a l o,
and conducted a water business
on the island.
Mr. Benton was born in Buffalo
and lived on the Island
for 30 years.
. In addition to his widow,
Alice Ackerman Benton, surviving
are a son, Thomas S.
Benton III, Staley Road; three
daughters, Mrs. David Velzy,
Akron, Ohio, and Nancy and
Christine Benton, at home;
and two grandchildren; four
sisters, Mrs. Lawrence Bletzer,
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Mrs.
Kenneth McKinley, Mrs. Carl
Rodler, and Mrs. Frank Mari
nell, all of Buffalo; and three
brothers, Richard H., Wesley
E. and Donald C. Benton, all
of Buffalo.
Rev. John Larsen, pastor of
Trinity Evangelical U n i t ed
Brethren Church, will conduct
a service at 2 p.m., Wednesday
at the Campbell Funeral
Home, 2067 Niagara St., Buffalo.
Burial will be Staley
Cemetery, W. River Road.
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Abt 1903 - 1962 (~ 59 years)