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Jul 13, 2023 Biographies

Ronal Bassham was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is the eldest of the six children of Thaddeus and Peggy Bassham. The Bassham family moved to Buffalo, New York when Ron was a child. He attended Buffal...

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Anna Porter Burrell

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Jul 30, 2021 Biographies

Dr. Anna Porter Burrell was born in Philadelphia in 1902. She graduated from high school and a two-year Normal School before completing a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Pennsy...

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Joyce Wilson Nixon

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Nov 10, 2020 Biographies

Joyce Nixon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and adopted by James and Edna Wilson. Her Mother ( Edna ), a former nurse is deceased and her father , just turned eight-one, retired from US Steel aft...

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Beverly Rennick Gray

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Sep 4, 2020 Biographies

Beverly A. Gray was born Beverly A. Rennick in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1950. She was the youngest daughter of William and Bertha Rennick. The family relocated to Buffalo, New York, in 1958. She ...

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Wardner H. Jones

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May 31, 2020 Biographies

Wardner H. Jones was a native of Powell, Pennsylvania. His parents were Henry Jones and Elizabeth A. Dorsey Jones. His siblings were Secue, Liston, Leeland, Katherine and Martin. Mr. Jones lived in Fl...

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Wilhelmina McAlpin Godfrey

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Apr 25, 2020 Biographies

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wilhelmina McAlpin was raised and educated in Buffalo. She was married to William Godfrey, Jr., for fifty-eight years and they had one child, Carol Godfrey Wing. Sh...

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William E. West

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Nov 18, 2019 Biographies

William E. West was born on November 2, 1922 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were Samuel A. and Loretta Jennings. The same year that he was born, he was adopted by his mother's sister, Mary J...

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Henry Harrison Lewis Jr.

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Henry Harrison Lewis, Jr. was a native of Buffalo was born circa June 1862. During the 1901 Pan American Exposition, Lewis was appointed to the Committee of Comfort. The Committee was created by the B...

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Bessie L. Walker

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Aug 30, 2018 Biographies

Mrs. Bessie L. Walker was married to Sherman L. Walker. She came to Buffalo with her husband in 1922. Mrs. Walker worked with her husband in their funeral home. She was a member of the Eastern Stars a...

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Orra L. C. Hughes

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Jul 13, 2018 Biographies

The following biographical sketch of O.L.C. Hughes was put together based on a series of newspaper articles, which describe the development of Mr. Hughes' varied and interesting career. Given the earl...

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Leeland Newton Jones Sr.

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Apr 13, 2018 Biographies

Leeland Newton Jones, Sr. was a native of Powell, Pennsylvania although he spent his formative years in Waverly, New York. He was born on October 24, 1892. His parents were Henry Jones and Elizabeth A...

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Dr. Myron St. Clair McGuire DDS

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Feb 24, 2018 Biographies

Dr. McGuire was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, sixty miles from Buffalo, New York. He lived in the city's Ellicott District since he came to Buffalo, at the young age of eight. He graduated from Publ...

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