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- Niagara Gazette - 3/17/1966
Halvin R. Alcorn, 72, of 3721
Military Road, Town of Niagara,
died Wednesday (March 16,
1966) in Mount St. Mary's Hospital
after a short illness.
He was a native of Salina,
Pa., and came to this city when
he was 16. He lived most of his
life in theTownof Niagara,
life in the Town of Niagara.
COurter Printing, and later at
the Wahl Printing and Binding
Co. for 10 years before joining
Moore Business Forms Inc. He
worked there for 25 years and
retired in 1958 as a compositor.
Mr. Alcorn worked at the
Highland Avenue plant and then
at the Lockport plant when it
opened.
Served as Justice
He was a justice of the peace
in the Town of Niagara from
1930 to 1942, and he was known
around the town as "the judge."
Mr. Alcorn was a member of
the Town of Niagara Board of
Education. He served on the
school board for 12 years, and
during that time the Military
Road Elementary School was
built.
He also served as a Republican
committeeman in the 1920s
and 1930s.
Mr. Alcorn was an instructor
of printing at Trott Vocational
High School from. 1945 to 1949.
He was a member of Niagara
Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1 and a
member of the Niagara Falls
Typographical Union 233.
The Survivors
Survivors include his wife,
Gertrude M.; three daughetrs.
Miss Verna E. Alcorn, Town of
Niagara; Mrs. William G. (Betty)
Dugan, San Diego, Calif.,
and Mrs. William H. (Shirley)
Strasburg, Town of Wheatfield;
three brothers, Clyde M. Alcorn,
this city; MauriceBichler,
this city, and Chris Bichler,
North Tonawanda; three sisters,
Mrs. Laura Ashcroft, Albuquerue,
N.M.; Mrs. Francis (Mary)
Mills, this city, and Mrs. Melvin
(Genevieve) Smith, Randolph;
and six grandchildren.
Service Saturday
Funeral services will be conducted
at the Rhoney Funeral
Home Inc., at 2 p.m. Saturday
by the Rev. Paul R. Swank,
pastor of Zion Lutheran Church.
Burial will be in Memorial Park
Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral
home today from 7 to 9 p.m.
and from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Friday.
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