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- Niagara Gazette
Amos (Dick) Brydges, 79, of
403 Ferry Ave., one of the city's
most colorful personalities and
former superintendent of
buildings, died unexpectedly
Tuesday (Aug. 8, 1972) in
Memorial Medical Center,
Mr. Brydges was a native of
this city, and a member of a
well-known Niagara County
family.
He was employed for most of
his life as a bartender at the
popular Ray-Ott Club, retiring
in 1958, a year before the
Second Street restaurant was
destroyed in the famous Gluck
Building fire.
Mr. Brydges was appointed
city superintendent of
buildings in 1957 by then City
Manager Charles B. Wright. At
the time he was responsible for
all building maintenance and
repairs and was in charge of
the city's janitorial and
custodial employes.
He was an acknowledged
sartorial expert who favored
bow ties and spats even
through his later years.
Mr. Brydges had been employed
as a court clerk in the
Niagara County Building for
the past eight years.
He is survived by his wife,
Mildred M. Brydges; three
daughters, Susan and Jeanine
Amy, both at home and Mrs.
Ronald (Bernice) Swick of
Wilson; a grandchild and
several nieces and nephews,
including retiring state Senate
Majority Leader Earl
Brydges.
Funera services will be
held at the Cornell and
Daggett Funeral Chapel
Friday at 11 a.m. with the Rev.
Pierre Tangent of First Baptist
Church officiating. Burial will
be in Oakwood Cemetery.
- Friends may call at the
funeral home from 2 p.m. to 4
p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today
and Thursday.
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1893 - 1972 (78 years)