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- 15 March 1943 Evening News of the Tonawandas
Struck by an automobile early Sunday morning while walking along a Lockport highway, Benjamin F. Strassburg, 55 years old, a former North Tonawandan, died several hours later in the Lockport City Hospital. According to police Strassburg was critically injured when he was hit on the Chestnut Ridge road, a few miles outside the Lockport city limits. Driver of the car was identified as Wallace Worden of 251 Caledonia street, Lockport.
Born in the town of Wheatfield, Strassburg lived most of his life here. He had been living at 32 Chestnut street, Lockport, for the past four years. He is survived by two brothers and seven sisters. The brothers are Otto of Kenmore and Walter, of Wheatfield. The sisters include the Mesdames Walter Suter, William Wurl and Edward Schroeder of North Tonawanda, Fred Zastrow and Norman Achenbach of Wheatfield, Burt Moore of Buffalo and Paul Mueller of Niagara Falls.
The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Achenbach residence on the Ward road. Burial will be in the Frieden's Cemetery. The Rev. Theophil Twente will officiate
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1887 - 1943 (55 years)