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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 8/9/1965
Carl L. Wolgast, a lifelong resident of the Sweet
Home area of Amherst and former Sweet Home School
Board president, was electrocuted last night when he
stepped on a fallen electric wire after a car had struck
a power pole in the Town of Amherst.
Mr. Wolgast, 38, of 2955 Sweet
Home Road, Amherst, apparently
tripped on the 4,800-volt line
while examining the scene of the
accident in Sweet Home Road
near Tonawanda Creek Road.
The three young occupants of
the car, all Amherst residents,
were shaken up but apparently
escaped serious injury. Robert
Guggernost, 19, the driver, Barbara
Hughes, 18, and Jacqueline
Reeves, 16, his passengers, were
examined at Meyer Memorial
Hospital.
Amherst Police Lt. Donald G.
Wright said Mr. Wolgast stepped
past a police guard set up on the
highway. "I saw him and yelled
at him to watch it," Lt. Wright
said. "At that moment he came
in contact with the wire and went
down."
Mr. Wolgast was freed when a
repair crew from Niagara Mohawk
Power Corp. cut the line.
He was pronounced dead at the
scene.
Mr. Wolgast served on the
Sweet Home Central School District
Board of Education from
1959 to 1964, including two terms
as president.
A graduate of North Tonawanda
Senior High School, he was active
in many civic affairs and
was one of the organizers of the
Ellicott Creek Civic Association.
Mr. Wolgast, an agent for Gold
Star Realtors, was the husband
of LaVerne Thomsen Wolgast;
father of Lawrence, Suzanne, David,
Linda and Randy Wolgast,
and son of Alice Wehrung and
the late Carl A. Wolgast.
Services will be at 2 p.m.
Wednesday at the Beach-Tuyn
Funeral Home, Williamsville.
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1927 - 1965 (38 years)