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- Niagara Gazette - 8/13/1962
Funeral services for Miss
Serena T Witmer. 76. a prominent
business woman, church
leader and descendant of a
local pioneer family, will be
held Wednesday.
Miss Witmer died Saturday
(Aug. 11, 1962) in Memorial
Hospital after being ill for
several days.
Miss Witmer lived at 1024
Grove Ave in a home owned
by her family for more than
60 years.
She started work in 1904
as bookkeeper for Snyder and
Gillette Contracting Co., now
the Concrete Stone and Coal
Co. In 1942 she was elected
secretary. She retired a year
ago For many she kept
the records of Snyder Realty
Co. also located in Gillette
Court in the DeVeaux section
of the city.
Family Here in 1810
Her great great-grandfather.
John Witmer, came here in
1810 and farmed property on
which the Vanadium Corpora-
tion of America plant in Witmer
Road was later bulit.
The Witmer family was act-
ive in the founding of the
Weston Avenue Free Metho-
dist Church, of which Miss
Witmer was a m e m b er
throughout her life She held
many c h u r c h offices and
served on the Official Board
for many years. She taught in
the Sunday School and was
greatly responsible for t h e
opening of a Sunday School
conducted in the Echota area
which grew to become the
Church Avenue Free Methodist
Church. She had charge
of youth work for the church
for many years and held of -
fices in the Woman's Missionary
Society
Rites Wednesday
Surviving are a sister. Mrs.
Murdo Morrison, who also resides
in the family homestead;
three brothers. M. T. Witmer.
president of Avers and Witmer
Lumber Co ; O. B. Wit-
mer, retired Carborundum Co
executive, and Art S. Witmer.
Lakeland. Fla
The funeral will be held
at 1:30 p m. Wednesday at the
Gridley Funeral Home. Rev.:
Myrtus C Rice, pastor of The
Weston Avenue Free Methodist
Church, and Rev. Michael
Salmen. her cousin, of Webster.
NY, former pastor of
the First Evangelical United
Brethren Church here, will
officiate. Burial will be in
Riverdale Cemetery.
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1885 - 1962 (76 years)