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- Niagara Gazette - 9/20/1943
VILARDO-Suddenly at North Tonawanda.
N. V.. Saturday. Sept. 18 1943. Jennie
K Vilardo. beloved daughter of Mr and
Mrs Lawrence J. Vilardo. sister of Lawrence
J. Jr., Joell Antoinette and Anthony.
Funeral services from her late
home. 520 Twenty-second St.. Tuesday
at 8 15 a m and at 9 o'clock at Our
Ladv of the Rosary church. Interment
in Gate of Heaven cemetery.
ALSO
Niagara Gazette - 9/20/1943
Two young women, both residents
of this city and both war plant employes,
were injured fatally Saturday
night at 8.45 o'clock when they
were struck by an automobile in
the River road, near Washington
street, North Tonawanda, N. Y.
The victims of the accident were
Miss Jennie Vilardo, 17, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Vilardo.
of 520 Twenty-second street, and
Miss Ada Marie Pentz, also 17, who
made her home with a sister at 604
Spruce avenue. Her home was in
Eldred. Pa. Both young women were
employes of the Local plant of the
U. S. Chemical Warfare Service.
Miss Vilardo was engaged to Private
Gordon Hosking, of Stratford.
Conn., and the announcement of her
engagement was to have appeared
in the Gazette today.
With two companions, Marion
Morasco, 24. of 1018 Fifteenth street,
and Miss Mary E. McGonigle, 24.
of 8516 Munson avenue, the two
youthful victims of the tragedy had
been on a bicycle trip and were on
their way back to this city. They
are said to have stopped to adjust
lights on their bicycles when the
automobile, operated by Colburn
Blake, 43. proprietor of Lynch's
park in the River road. Wheatfield.
also traveling towards this city,
struck Miss Vilardo and Miss Pentz.
hurling them against the windshield
of the car.
Miss Pentz died enroute to the De-
Graff Memorial hospital. North
Tonawanda. while Miss Vilardo died
a few minutes after having been
admitted to the same institution.
Blake is accused of having left the
scene. He was arrested a short time
later by Patrolman Frederick Hoefert,
of the North Tonawanda police
department, and was held by City
Judge Edwin Messint today on a
charge of leaving the scene of an
accident without making himself
known, until his release was order-
ed by District Attorney John S.
Marsh. He pleaded not guilty and
gave bail of $1,000.
Mr. Marsh said that he would
present evidence in the case to the
grand jury. Coroner Jacob E. Helj
wig. of North Tonawanda. withheld
issuing death certificates, pending
completion of his investigation. He
said that he asked Blake for a
statement and that Blake told him
that he prefererd to make no statement
at that time.
Miss Pentz was a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Pentz. of Eldred, Pa.,
and was employed as an accountant
by the Chemical Warfare Service.
Besides her parents, Miss Vilardo
is survived by a brother, Lawrence.
Jr., a sister. Joel Antoinette, and
another brother. Anthony. She was
a graduate of the Niagara Falls
high school with the class of 1942
and was employed by the Chemical
Warfare Service as a government
inspector. Funeral services will be
held from her late home tomorrow
morning at 8.30 o'clock and in the
Church of Our Lady of the Rosary
at 9 o'clock. Burial will be In the
Gate of Heaven cemetery.
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