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- Obituary from Niagara Falls Gazette
Monday, July 23, 1951
Believe Farmer Stroke Victim
LOCKPORT, July 23 - Apparently the victim of a stroke, Edward A. Fritz, 76, lifelong Niagara county farmer, was found dead Saturday afternoon in the barn at the farm of Ernest Lewis, Lincoln avenue extension, Town of Royalton, where he had been making his home. The dead man and Mr. Lewis had been getting in hay during the day and Mr. Fritz had remained in the barn while the owner of the farm went back to the field. The body was found on his return. Mr. Fritz was a native of the Town of Wheatfield, son of the late William and Caroline Kube Fritz. He was an exempt member of Rescue Hose Company No. 5, North Tonawanda, and a member of Trinity Lutheran church, Lockport. Before making his home at the Lewis farm, Mr. Fritz had operated his own farm in the Million Dollar highway for many years. Survivors include two sons and a daughter, Howard E., Lester E. and Edith H. Fritz, all of Lockport; three brothers, Julius, Louis and George Fritz, all of Tonawanda. Services will be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Prudden Funeral home with the Rev. Herman Meier, pastor of Trinity church, officiating. Burial will be in Trinity Lutheran Cold Spring cemetery.
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1875 - 1951 (~ 76 years)