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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 8/2/1971
Private funeral services will be
conducted Wednesday for Mrs.
Florence A. Beyer,,75, of 138. Clinton
St., Tonawanda, a former Tonawanda
schoolteacher who died yesterday in
DeGraff Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Beyer is survived by a son,.
John L. Beyer of Amherst; a daughter,
Mrs. James Williams of Lakeport,
Calif.; a brother, Joseph Mackey
Tonawanda and five grandchildren.
Her late husband, John L. Beyer,
who died in 1965, served as mayor of
Tonawanda from 1928 to 1933 and as an
Erie County supervisor from 1936 to
1937.
~A native of Wilmington, Del., Mrs.
Beyer had resided in Tonawanda for 60
years. She was a graduate of Buffalo
Stafe Teachers College and taught
fourth grade at Highland Elementary
School for 26 1/2 years.
In 1966, Mrs. Beyer was awarded an
honorary life membership in the
National Congress of Parents and
Teachers for "devoted and
distinguished service to children and
youth."
She was a member of the State
Retired Teachers Association and the
Historical Society of the Tonawandas.
Hilliard Funeral Home Inc. is in
charge of arrangements. Burial will be
in Elmlawn Cemetery.
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