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- Buffalo News, The (NY) - October 31, 2003
Deceased Name: MARGARET A. CARLSON, WORLD WAR II RIVETER
Margaret A. Carlson, 77, who worked as a riveter at Curtiss-Wright, North Tonawanda, during World War II, died Thursday (Oct. 30, 2003) in DeGraff Memorial Hospital, North Tonawanda, after a brief illness.
Born Margaret Huffman in Oak Ridge, Pa., she attended schools in Pennsylvania. She moved to this area in 1943 and went to work making airplane parts during the war.
For 47 years, Mrs. Carlson was a member of St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, where she was a former Sunday school teacher. She was also a member of Wheatfield Senior Citizens and enjoyed sewing, gardening and crafts.
Surviving are her husband of 58 years, Thomas L.; a daughter, Victoria Wienke of Elma; three sons, Richard of St. Louis, Harry of Lockport and Thomas J. of Bergholz; two sisters, Louise Comly and Mildred Miller, both of Pennsylvania; a brother, Harry Huffman of Pennsylvania; seven grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 11 A.M. Saturday in St. James Church, Niagara Road and Rohr Street. Burial will be in St. James Lutheran Cemetery
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1926 - 2003 (77 years)