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- 4 December 1950 Tonawanda News
Benjamin E. Witt, Post Office Clerk For 34 Years, Dies
Benjamin E. Witt, 59, an employee of the North Tonawanda Post Office for 34 years, died Sunday in DeGraff Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Witt was taken to the hospital Thursday after suffering a heart attack in his home, 4 Louisa Parkway.
A lifelong resident of North Tonawanda, Mr. Witt joined the Post Office staff in July 1916. He served as a stamp clerk and would have been eligible for retirement next year.
Commenting on Mr. Witt's long services, Postmaster Harold E. Bollier said, He was an exceptionally capable and faithful employee. Because he had been at the stamp window so long, he knew and was known by thousands of local residents.
Mr. Witt was a member of Grace Lutheran Church, the Sweeney Hose Company and the Postal Clerk' Association. He was a graduate of North Tonawanda High School.
Surviving are his wife, Alice, nee Wollenberg; a brother, Edward C. Witt of Waukegan, Ill., three sisters, Mrs. Emma Langbehn and Mrs. Anna Evig of North Tonawanda and Mrs. Martha Andres of Los Angeles.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Louisa Parkway residence. The Rev. Herman Miller will officiate. Burial will be in Elmlawn Cemetery.
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1891 - 1950 (~ 59 years)