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Henry Erbes Dies, Ex- Trinity Pastor The Rev. Henry C. Erbes, D.D., 87, of 1126 Dewey pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church 58 years before he retired in 1956, died yesterday (Feb. 1, 1961) in High- land Hospital. Dr.

Erbes suffered a hip fracture in a fall in is home Dec. 27. Before com-, ing here May 1898, six years after Trinity Church was organized, he was pastor of the Lutheran church in Summit Hill, Dr. Henry two years, C. Erbes during which he helped build a new church.

After the church was completed, Dr. Erbes, on his way to visit Dunkirk. his. native city, stopped in Rochester to visit a relative. The Trinity Church pastor had just resigned and Dr.

Erbes was asked to conduct the Sunday service. That led to his being named pastor a short time later to succeed the Rev. Peter Altpeter. "Dr. Erbes was given an honorary doctor of divinity degree by Hartwick College in Oneonta in 1953.

He was at one time secretary of the Western Conference of the United Lutheran Synod of New York and New England. In 1893, Dr. Erbes was graduated from Wagner College, which then was in Rochester and now is on Staten Island. After he was graduated from Mt. Airy Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1896 he was ordained by the New York Ministerium and then became pastor of the church in Summit Hill.

Upon his retirement from Trinity Church, Dr. Erbes became pastor emeritus. He was succeeded as pastor by the Rev. Theodore A. Schrader.

In recognition of Dr. Erbes' 58 years' service to the church, a new spire on the building was dedicated to him in 1957. On the 25th anniversary of his being pastor, the congregation gave him a trip to the Holy Land. On his 50th anniversary a banquet was held in Masonic Temple in his honor and he was presented a gift of $2,700. Dr.

Erbes was a bachelor. His sister, Mrs. Phoebe E. Hoffacker, who was his housekeeper, died 30 years ago. Dr.

Erbes is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Nathalie Mandel of Rochester and Mrs. John Warren of Ormond Beach, and a nephew, Dr. Donald Wolpert, also of Ormond Beach. Friends may call at the Charles L.

Younglove Funeral Home, 1511 Dewey from 7 to 9 today and 2 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. The Rev. Dr. Erbes' body will lie in state in the church, Campbell and Walnut streets, Saturday from noon to 1:30 p.m.

when the service will be held. Burial will be in Dunkirk. Contributions may be made to the Abiding Memorial Fund of the church in the Rev. Dr. Erbes' name.

Herman L. Yager Rite Tomorrow A memorial service for Herman L. Yager, 76, head of the mathematics department at Allendale School, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the chapel of Third Presbyterian Church Mr. Yager was found dead at the wheel of his car after it had hit a girder on the Barge Canal Bridge in 1 State Street.

Pittsford, Tuesday (Jan. 31, 1961). The Coroner's Office attributed death to a heart attack. Yager resided at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Shepard, 500 Allen's Creek Road, Pittsford, across from Allendale School. He had taught there since 1957. Mr. Yager leaves a son, John L. Yager, in Huyten, England; a brother in Virginia, and three grandchildren.

A funeral service and burial will be in Virginia Saturday. Mrs. Catherine Kelly Succumbs at 91 Mrs. Catherine C. Kelly, 91, a charter member of the Rosary Society of St.

Monica's Church, died yesterday (Feb. 1, 1961) in Washington, D.C., after several months' illness. Since 1947, Mrs. Kely had lived with her son, the Rt. Rev.

Msgr. John E. Kelly, director of the Bureau of Information of the National Catholic Welfare Council in Washington. She was the widow of John Kelly. Mrs.

Kelly, a native of County Roscommon, Ireland, came here she was 18. Kelly, a native of Rochester. was in Rochester last fall as the main speaker in the conference of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. The Kelly family formerly lived in Barton Street. Besides her son, n.

Mrs. Kelly is survived by several nieces! and nephews. Friends may call at Davidson Brothers Funeral Home, 896 Genesee Sunday. The prayer service will be held there at 9:30 a.m. Monday and requiem Mass will be celebrated by Msgr.

Kelly in St. Monica's Church at 10. Burial will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Mrs. Aristine Smith Funeral Tomorrow A funeral service for Mrs.

Aristine Smith, one of the Town of Ogden's oldest residents, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Walker Brothers Funeral Home, 15 West Spencerport. Mrs. Smith, 91, widow of Flagg G. Smith, died in the Garrison Sanitarium, Spencerport, Tuesday (Jan.

31, 1961). She was a charter member and the second matron of Etolian Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. For more than 50 years, Mrs. Smith was a member of the Ogden Grange. Mrs.

Smith leaves a daughter, Mrs. Norman Lougee of New York; two sons, Dean B. and Charles W. Smith of Spencerport; seven grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Burial will be at the family's convenience.

Friends may contribute to the Ogden Center Presbyterian Church Endowment Fund. James E. Banks Rite Saturday A funeral James E. Banks, II veteran, of will be held James E. a World War 28 Morgan St.

at 2 p.m. Saturday, in the Millard E. Latimer Son Funeral Home, 983 Plymouth Ave. S. Mr.

Banks, 38, died in the Batavia Veterans Administration Hospital Tuesday (Jan. Banks 31, 1961). He entered the Army in March, 1943, and served overseas 22 months with the 573rd Quartermaster Railhead Company in France. He received the American Theater and European Middle Eastern-African Theater Ribbons. Since leaving the Army in 1946.

Mr. Banks had been disabled. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Ardella Banks; a sister, Mrs. Jennette Basey; two uncles and aunts, and several cousins.

Burial will be in the veterans' plot of Riverside Cemetery. CD FLOTILLA TO MEET The Civil Defense Marine Flotilla will meet at 8 p.m. today when Monroe County CD Director Robert N. Abbott will discuss the role of small craft in an emergency. The unit consists of more than 100 small craft owners who organized as a part of the Civil Defense watercraft service.

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She was a member of the Kodak Pioneer Miss McDonnell leaves three sisters, Mrs. Florence Houck, Mrs. Kathryn Kuhn and Miss Anne McDonnell, all of Rochester; two brothers, William J. and Frank M. McDonnell and a niece.

Last rites will be held at 8:15 a.m. Saturday in the Farrell Brothers Funeral Home, 51 Ridge Road and at 9 in St. Augustine's Church. Burial will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Robert E.

Beardsley, Fire Police Chief Robert E. Beardsley, 53, a native of Rochester and of fire police of Lily Dale Fire Department in Chautauqua County, was stricken with a fatal heart attack last night while directing traffic at a fire in a house roof in Lily Dale. Mr. Beardsley, the son Mrs. Fanny Ostrander Beardsley and the late Nelson A.

Beardsley, 2151 Huber Road, Fairport, was pronounced dead upon arrival at Brooks Memorial Hospital in nearby Dunkirk. A Lily Dale resident 12 years, Mr. Beardsley traveled about the country as an investigator and expediter for Stone Webster Construction Co. of Boston, the last five years. Prior to that, he worked for American Locomotive Co.

in Dunkirk as an expediter. Before being appointed chief of fire police last August, Mr. Beardsley was fire chief two years. Besides his mother, he is survived by his widow, Marion Kellerby Beardsley; a son, Robert C. of Angola; a daughter, Miss Sally Beardsley, a University of Buffalo student, and two stepchildren, Mrs.

Richard Seeker of Vallejo, and Mrs. Nancy Chinchillo of Norfolk, Va. Funeral service arrangements were not complete last night. Mrs. Mary Gerew, 87, Dies, Taught at Free Academy Mrs.

Mary Elizabeth Gerew, 87, formerly of Griffith Street, who taught school in the old Rochester Free Academy, died yesterday (Feb. 1, 1961). Mrs. Gerew was a former Republican elections inspector in the Fourth Ward, a post she held 30 years. She was a past of the American War Mothers here.

During World War II, she obtained blood donors for the American Red Cross in house-to-house canvassing and also sold War Bonds. She was given a citation by the Rochester Chapter of Red Cross for her work in the 1952 campaign. In addition to working as an election inspector, Mrs. Gerew was widow of Frederick Gerew. She was a native of Albany and lived here 65 years.

She is survived by two sons, Frederick H. and Ralph two brothers, Oliver B. and George B. Griffing, all of Rochester. The funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m.

Saturday in Hedges Memorial Chapel, 271 University Ave. Burial will be in White Haven Memorial Park. Julius C. Thornton, Photoengraver Word of the death of Julius C. (Tex) Thornton, 67, a photo- Youth, 16, Held In Attempt To Steal Car A Rochester youth was being held without bail in Oswego County Jail yesterday, awaiting grand jury action on a charge of first degree grand larceny in an attempted car theft.

Robert A. Nichel, 16, of 1357 Culver Road is accused of attempting to steal a station wagon owned by Wilfred Bunker of Mexico, N.Y., early yesterday. Oswego County Sheriff's Deputy Ora Lawton said the attempted theft occurred after another car, allegedly stolen by Nichel and another youth in Williamson, ran out of gas in Route 3, two miles south of the Village of Mexico. The second youth, LeRoy R. Kersey, 17, of Woodmill Cabins, Williamson, was sentenced to 10 days in Oswego County Jail after he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving without a license.

Countyto Get New Machine for Monroe County is replacing its RAMAC 305 machines with a new 1401 data processing machine, County Manager Gordon A. Howe reported yesterday. said the delivery of the new IBM (International Busi-1959, ness Machines) machine is set for July, 1962. The RAMAC machine is on rental from IBM at $3,977.50 a month. The new machine rent for approximately $5,000 a month.

Harvey, director of the data processing division of the county finance department, said the new machine utilizes a magnetic tape to record the data. The RAMAC machine, which the county has used since September of uses punched cards. The 1401 is much more versatile, Harvey said. He explained the new machine will be usable for tax calculating and bill writing. Time will 1 be saved by the elimination of the handling of cards, he said.

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Mr. Thornton, also a former employe of the Franklin and Hurst engraving companies here, died at his home in West Los Angeles Tuesday (Jan. 31, 1961). Before moving to California six years ago, Mr. had resided here about 20 years.

His home was at 201 Rand St. He was well known as a golfer and was a member of the Durand Eastman Golf Club. He leaves his wife, Lydia; a daughter, Isabell, in California; and two sons, Robert and Alfred Thornton of Rochester. Last rites will be held in West Los Angeles tomorrow. Rev.

Leal S. Clark Funeral Today A last rite for the Rev. Leal S. Clark, 86, a retired Presbyterian minister who once served Rochester area churches, will be held in Blairsville, at 8 p.m. today.

The Rev. Mr. Clark, father of Richard L. Clark, 190 Hoover Road, Irondequoit, died Tuesday (Jan. 31, 1961).

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