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- Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 9/17/1955
Services will be held tomorrow
at 2 o'clock at the Hilliard Funeral
Home, 147 Delaware St., Tonawan-
da, for George A. Leber, 64, a
prominent figure in county Ameri-
can Legion work, who died Friday
in the Veterans Hospital, Buffalo,
after a long illness. He was a
native of Tonawanda.
The Rev. Walter f. Hetzel, pas-
tor of the Salem Evangelical and
Reformed Church, tonawanda, will
officiate and burial will be in White
Chapel Memorial Park.
Mr. Leber, a member of Tona-
wanda Post 164, was past post,
county and Eighth District com-
mander. He served as state de-
partment vice commander; was a
former director of the veterans
mountain camp at Tupper Lake'
child welfare chairman of the state
department for many years;
serbed on the National Committee
as chairman of Area B and was
service officer for the local post
for more than 25 years.
He served with Company K,
175th Regiment, National Guard,
from 1911 unti 1941. He retired as
armorer of the tonawanda Arm-
ory in 1949. he was a member of
Voiture 388, 40 & 8 and the Last
Man's Club of Post 264.
He was a past alderman of Tona-
wanda, serving from 1949 until
1957.
Surviving are his wife, Caroline
(nee Wober), one daughter, Mrs.
Harold Mongold; one son, Ellis G.
Leber; one grandson, William E.
Leber; his mother, Mrs. Alex Le-
ber; five sisters, Mrs. Fred Sat-
tleberg, Mrs. Carl Belling, Mrs.
William Hurdiss, Miss Elsie Leb-
er, Mrs. Edmund Hartwig; all of
the Tonawandas' and three broth-
ers, Carl and Edward of Tonawan-
da and Joseph of Buffalo.
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Abt 1891 - 1955 (~ 64 years)