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- Auburn NY Free Press - 5/15/1941
BRODHEAD-Suddenly Saturday
afternoon, May 10, at Clifton
Springs, Robert L. Brodhead, Sr.
of 59 Lake Avenue, Auburn. Private
services were held Tuesday
afternoon. Burial was made in
Soule Cemetery.
ALSO
Auburn NY Citizen Advertiser - 5/12/1941
Private funeral services for Robert L. Brodhead, 65, of 50 Lake
Avenue, well known Auburn carpenter-contractor, who was killed in
an automobile accident Saturday afternon, almost ten miles east of
Canandaigua, will be held Tuesday afternoon at the Langhorn Funeral
Home, 45 East Genesee Street.
Rev. Richard J. Blocker, pastor
Sand Beech Church, will officiate.
Burial will be in State
Cemetery. Friends have been Invited
to call at 81 East Genesee
Street this evening.
the accident was Investigated by
State Trooper Robert Flaherty of
the Canaudalgua patrol and Depth
ty Sheriff Victor Campbell of Canaadalgua.
It was at an intersection
on the Phelps-Manchester highway
that the accident happened.
According to the officer* who Investigated,
Mr. Brodhead was driving
west en the main highway.
With Mr. Brodhead was his wife,
Mrs. Mary Vandenbosch Brodhead.
From a side road came a car op-
erated by Paul DeCook, 27, of
Newark. Wayne County. Biding
with De Cook were three small
children. The ears collided at the
Intersection and the impact shored
the Brodhead car into a telephone
pole beef de the pavement, throwing
Mr. Brodhead oat and crashing
him between the pole and the automobile.
He died almost Instantly.
Mrs. Brodhead was taken to the
Clifton Springs Sanatorium, suffering
from shock aad braises. Her
condition proved to be not serious
and she was to be brought to Auburn
today. DeCook sustained a
knee injury.
Coroner S. F. Kutt .of Clifton
Springs is investigating the fatality.
Mr. and Mrs. Brodhead were
on their way to visit friends in
Rochester when the accident happened.
Victim Widely Known
Mr. Brodhead had been engaged
in business as a contractor
and carpenter in Auburn many
years, achieving a reputation as
a highly skilled workman and
was much in demand.
Besides his wife, Mr. Brodhead
is survived by a son, Robert L.
Brodhead, Jr., connected with the
city engineer's department; a
daughter, Helen M. Brodhead, a
teat her at Tuckahoe, N. Y.; and a
brother, George I. Brodhead of
Auburn.
Mr. Brodhead was a member of
Auburn Lodge, 481, F. A A. M.;
David's Chapter, 34, Royal Arch
Masons; Salem Town Commandery,
16, of Knights Templar;
Damascus Temple of Rochester
aad Auburn Lodge of Elks.
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