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- Niagara Gazette - 4/25/1959
Mrs. Samuel J. Devlin, 87,
long time resident of this city,
died Friday (April 24, 1959) at
Naples, N.Y., after a long illness.
Widow of the late Samuel J.
Devlin, an officer of the Carborundum
Co., Mrs. Devlin,
the former Mary Barker, resided
for more than 60 years
at 148 Buffalo Ave. Later she
lived in Lewiston for several
years.
Interested in civic' affairs,
Mrs. Devlin served for many
years on the ; board; of the
worhen's auxiliary of Memorial
Hospital and was active during
World War I on a visiting committee
assisting families of
men in service overseas.
She was a member of the
Monday Club and a charter
member of'the.Tatler. She was
one of a group pf 19 young
men and women who founded
the first golf club in this area,
forerunner of the Niagara
Falls Country Club. She attended
the old; Fifth Street
School here and St. Margaret's
Episcopal School, Buffalo.
. Surviving are a daughter,
Eleanor S: Devlin, Orange,
N.J.; a son, Kenneth B. Devlin,
Rochester, former trust officer
of the Power City Branch Marine
Trust Company of Western
New York, and former
Lewiston mayor, and two sisters,
Mr. H. A. Cozzens, Fort
Erie, Ont., and Mrs. Arthur
Viertel, Poughkeepsie.
Funeral services will be held ,
at 11 a.m. Monday at the
Cornell and Daggett Funeral
Chapel. The Rev. James E.
Wells Jr., rector of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church, Lewiston.,
will officiate. Burial, in Oakwood
cemetery, will be private.
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