Union Sun & Journal (Lockport, New York) - Saturday, July 25, 1967
Funeral services for Douglas L. Lederhouse were held at the Lange Funeral Home, 186 East Avenue, on Monday (July 24, 1967) at 2 p.m. The Reverend J. Reginald Martin officiated. The bearers were William Bentley, LeRoy Bisher, Terry Enderton, Ronald Godzisz, Joseph Harper, Joseph Jagow, Kenneth Lederhouse, and Walter Lukasic. Interment in Corwin Cemetery.
Union Sun & Journal (Lockport, New York) - Saturday, July 22, 1967
A Lockport youth was killed and three others injured when their car hit a roadside culvert and flipped over on its top.
Dead was Douglas L. Lederhouse, 17, of 3798 Lockport-Olcott Road, Lockport.
In satisfactory condition at Mt. St. Mary's Hospital in Lewiston were:
Douglas L. Henning, 18, of Wheeler Road, Lockport, possible concussion, multiple lacerations and contusions.
Robin Luskin, 14, of 1363 Swan Road, Youngstown, a fractured right leg and a fractured skull.
John Newland Jr., 16, 4646 Ide Road, Newfane, with a concussion, multiple lacerations and contusions.
According to Lewiston State Troopers Kenneth Troidle and J. E. Sechner, who investigated, the auto was headed north on the Dickersonville Road, Town of Porter. It rounded a curve and ran off the pavement of the road, Trooper Troidle said. Then it struck the side of a culvert ditch, and bounced over it.
When the State Police reached the scene, the car was lying on its top on the north side of the culvert, Trooper Troidle acknowledged.
State Trooper Frank Britt of the the Wrights Corners substation, who directed traffic, said one of the occupants was pinned in the car. He couldn't identify him. He said that three of them were thrown out onto the road.
“The car was completely demolished. The springs were torn off. Everything was just ripped and torn,” Trooper Britt said.
“When I got there, there were two people standing. The deceased was lying in the middle of the road 10 feet from the car. John Newland was 30 feet from the car,” he said.
Trooper Britt said the auto was a 1964 Chevrolet two-door sedan.
The driver of the car, Douglas Henning, was charged with speed not reasonable and prudent. He has been scheduled to appear before Peace Justice Donald Bemmis, Town of Porter, at a later date.
The dead youth, Douglas Lederhouse, was the son of Harold G. Lederhouse and Mrs. Gerrie Bisher, his mother with whom he lived.
Douglas was going to be a senior at Newfane Central School this coming fall.
While a student, he was a two-year letterman in baseball. In addition, he played Little League baseball before entering Newfane Central School. He was born, February 24, 1950 in Lockport.
Besides his parents, he is survived by two sisters and four brothers, Star Beth Lederhouse, Nancy Lee Bisher, William J. Lederhouse, Harold G. Lederhouse Jr., Lenny L. Lederhouse, and George L. Bisher III,, all at home; his paternal grandfather Jesse Lederhouse of 351 Walnut Street, Lockport; also several aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:00 p.m. at Lange Funeral Home, 186 East Avenue, :Lockport. The Reverend Reginald J. Martin, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Lockport, will officiate.
Friends will call Sunday afternoon beginning at 2 p.m.
Burial will be at Corwin Cemetery, Newfane.