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- Niagara Gazette - 5/21/1965
OLCOTT -A prominent
f a r m e r and businessman,
Charles J. Lawton, 82, of 6071
Lake Ave., died today (May
21, 1965) in Inter-Community
Memorial Hospital, Newfane
where he had been a patient
11 days.
Mr. Lawton was born in Ro-
chester Feb 25, 1883, son of
Arthur and Harriet Allen
Lawton. He came here when
he was 15 years old. Mr. Law-
ton operated a fruit farm east
of Olcott and also had a Black
Angus cattle herd and operated
a slaughterhouse. For 59
years, he also operated a coal
and coke business at Burt.
Mr. Lawton was congregational
treasurer oi Olcott
Methodist Church when the
present church was erected in
1901 and at the time of his
death was active in a fund
drive to construct a new educational
church building. In
1951 he was elected a director
for the State Bank of Newfane
and later was a vice president
there. When the bank merged
with the Liberty National
Band and Trust Co. in 1963,
he became a member of the
advisory board for the Newfane
office.
He married the former Minnie
Volschow on April 3, 1907.
Besides his widow he is survived
by a son, Irving L. Lawton,
of Wilmington, Del., two
sisters, Mrs. Lucy Norton of
West Palm Beach, Fla., and
Mrs. Gifford Brainkel, of Olcott;
three grandchildren and
several nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at the
Rutland-Corwin F u n e r al
Home, Newfane, at 2 p.m.
Monday. Rev. Philip Mitchell,
pastor of Olcott Methodist
Church, will officiate. Burial
will be In Corwin Cemetery.
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1883 - 1965 (82 years)