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- Niagara Gazette - 6/5/1970
Rites Arranged
For Gun Victim
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at the Lane Funeral
Home for Lemuel W. Pope, 66,
of the Town of Tonawanda, who
died Wednesday (June 3, 1970)
after he was shot at the Buffalo
Pipe and Foundry Corp. plant
in Tonawanda.
Karl D. Knight, 31. of Buffalo
is being held on first degree
assault charges in the shooting
of Roman Oolu, 47, who was
wounded at the same plant
Wednesday.
Mr. Pope was a foreman at
the foundry for 25 years and
worked at Frontier Bronze Co.
in Niagara Falls during World
II. He was born in Georgia.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Pearl V. Pope; three sons,
Floyd W. Pope of this city and
Thomas E. and James E. Pope,
both in California; s i x
daughters, Mrs. Joyce S. Baker
of this city, Mrs.. Joe Anne
Wagner of North Tonawanda,
Mrs. Jeraldine Sutter in Kentucky,
Mrs. Mary J. Sutter of
Tonawanda and Mrs. Janet L.
Steele and Mrs. Susan Horn,
both in California.
Also surviving are f i ve
brothers, Grover C. Pope of
Anniston, Ala., O.O. Pope of
Tyler, Tex., Clyde Pope of
Huntsvelle, Ala., J.G. Pope of
Birmingham, Ala., and S.J.
Pope of Seattle, Wash., and four
sisters, Mrs. Kate Dempsey of
Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. Mary
LockLear of Buffalo, M r s .
Helen McCollum of Huntsville
and Mrs. Ruth Simmons, of
Birmingham, Ala.
He is also survived by 27
6randchildren.
Funeral services will be held
at the Lane Funeral Hame
Saturday at 1 p.mi The Rev.
Kenneth Traxler of Wesley
United Methodist Church will
officiate.
Burial will be in Memorial
Park Cemetery.
Friends may call today from
2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
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Abt 1904 - 1970 (~ 66 years)