| Notes |
- Niagara Gazette - 8/4/1958
NORTH TONAWANDA
Funeral services for Robert
Charles Davis, 28, of 82
Keil St., Korean war veteran
who became the City of Tonawanda's
first 1958 traffic fatality,
will be conducted at 2
p.m., Wednesday at the Wattengell
Funeral Home. The
Rev. Herman B. Miller of
Grace Lutheran Church will
officiate. Burial will be in Elmlawn
Cemetery.
Mr. Davis was. killed early Sunday
when his car struck a tree In
R. Niagara St., Tonawanda, in
front of the Exclon Corp. plant.
Mr. Davis was a lifelong resident
of this city and a 1949 graduate
of North Tonawanda High
School. After attending the University
of Buffalo, he was employed
by the Niagara-Mohawk
Power Corp. as a clerk in its
commercial accounting department.
Mr. Davis went overseas in 1951,
serving in Korea until 1954 when
he was discharged from the Army
with the rank of corporal. He was
a member of G r a c e Lutheran
Church, president of Active Hose
Co., a member of the North Tonawanda
Firemen's Benevolent Assn.
and of Post No. 264, American
Legion.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Arnold Davis, with whom
he resided, and two sisters, Mrs.
Edward Struebing, this city, and
Mrs. Victor Anderson, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Mr. Davis was driving west in
E. Niagara St., when his car failed
to negotiate a curve and struck
a tree, according to the report of
Patrolmen Herman Garrow, Robert
Ensminger and Howard Perry.
The police report said Mr. Davis
was pinned in the wreckage between
the front scat and. the floor
boards and firemen from the Niagara
Hose Co. were called to
extricate him. He was taken to
DeGraff Memorial Hospital, where
he was pronounced dead at 1:35
a.m. Sunday.
Coroner F. Eugene Ingram, Niagara
Falls, issued a certificate of
accidental d e a t h. He said Mr.
Davis died almost instantly.
|
Abt 1930 - 1958 (~ 28 years)