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- Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 6/8/1971
CAMBRIA - A Pendleton
man was critically injured
Monday afternoon when the car
he was driving and a dump
truck driven by his son, Earl,
collided at Campbell Blvd. and
Lockport Rd.
Vincent L. Beiter, 77. of 5379
Tonawanda Creek Rd. was
listed in critical condition this
morning at Sisters Hospital in
Buffalo where he was transferred
after being treated at
Lockport Memorial Hospital.
He is the father of Pendleton
Supervisor Raymond A. Beiter.
Niagara County Sheriffs
deputies said Mr. Beiter suffered
four broken ribs, a head
injury, facial lacerations, a
possible concussion and a
punctured lung.
Deputy Karl E. Griffin said
Earl V. Beiter, 45, of 5040
Mapleton Rd., Pendleton,
driving a Niagara County Highway
Dept. dump truck, escaped
injury in the 3:52 p.m. collision.
Deputy Griffin said the dump
truck, loaded with crushed stone
for a highway project in the
area, was northbound on
Campbell Blvd.
The deputy said the Beiter
car slowed down for the
flashing red stop light on Lock-
port Rd. and then proceeded
westward through the in-
tersection and was struck
broadside by the dump truck.
ALSO
Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 6/21/1971
PENDLETON - Vincent L.
Beiter, 77, of 5379 Tonawanda
Creek Rd., father of Pendleton
Supervisor Raymond A. Beiter,
died Sunday at Sisters of
Charity Hospital, Buffalo, of
injuries suffered in a two vehicle
accident June 7.
A native of Pendleton, he was
born March 10, 1894, the son
of Casper and Francis Donner
Beiter. He had been a selfemployed
carpenter, here, most
of his life.
Mr. Beiter had been injured
June 7 when the car he was
driving and a Niagara County
Highway Dept. dump truck
driven by his son, Earl, collided
at Campbell Blvd. and Lockport
Rd.
Niagara County Sheriffs
Deputy Karl Griffin said the
son, Earl V. 45, of 5049
M a p 1 e t o n Rd., Pendleton,
escaped injury.
Deputies said the westbound
car was struck broadside by the
northbound dump truck, loaded
with crushed stone for a highway
project in the area.
The elder Mr. Beiter was a
World War I veteran and a
former member of the Wendleville
Fire Co.
He was a member of the
Wendleville Exempt Firemen
and Benevolent Assn., the Holy
Name Society of Good Sheperd
Church, here, the Alfred Jurek
Post 1672, American Legion, the
Pendleton Senior Citizens Club,
the Old Guard in Lockport and
the Pendleton Democratic Club.
Besides his two sons, he is
s u r v i v e d by his widow,
Elizabeth A. Windnagle Beiter;
three other sons, Anthony J. of
Freeport, Pa., Vincent J. and
Joseph G. of Pendleton; three
daughters, Mrs. William
(Arlene) Goerss of St. Louis,
Mo., Mrs. Stanley (Elizabeth)
Swogier of Pendleton and Mrs.
Lester (Rita) Spoth of Amherst.
Also surviving are 31 grandc
h i l d r e n ; five greatgrandchildren;
eight brothers,
Lawrence of Kenmore, Roman
of Tonawanda, Norbert of
Corfu, Herbert of Pendleton,
Harold of Clarence, Clemens of
North Tonawanda, Gerhardt of
Eggertsville and Event of
California; two sisters, Mrs.
Martha Hartman of Akron and
Mrs. Joseph Fagen of Middleport
and several nieces and
nephews.
Friends may call from 2 to
4:30 and from 7 to 9 p.m. at
the Gaul Funeral Home Inc.,
263 East Ave., where services
will be held at 10:15 a.m.,
Wednesday and at 11 a.m. from
Good Shepherd Church.
The Rosary will be recited at
8:30 p.m., tomorrow. Burial will
be in Good Shepherd Cemetery.
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1894 - 1971 (77 years)