This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FISCHER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZaB.2ACE/1416 Message Board Post: Buffalo News, The (NY) - June 2, 1994 L.N. FISCHER, 105, LUMBER FIRM EXECUTIVE A Mass of Christian Burial for L. Norman Fischer, 105, a longtime Buffalo resident and retired lumberman, will be offered at 10:30 a.m. Friday in St. Louis Catholic Church, Main and Edward streets. Prayers will be said at 10 in Rubino Memorial Home, 1234 Delaware Ave. Burial will be in the family plot in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Cheektowaga. Fischer died Tuesday (May 31, 1994) in Hamlin Terrace Nursing Home, where he had been a resident for several years. Born in Bradford, Pa., he moved to Buffalo with his family as a child and was the oldest living graduate of Lafayette High School. He served in the Navy during World War I. Fischer originally worked in the oil industry in Oklahoma and California. He returned to Buffalo to work as a representative for Buffalo Gasoline and Motor Co., demonstrating its engines at national events and expositions. One of the first automobile owners in Buffalo, Fischer was a member of the AAA Auto Club for more than 75 years. At the request of his family, he joined the lumber company founded by his uncle, Louis Fischer, and where his father, Joseph Fischer, was a partner. He worked at the former Dohn, Fischer and Co. at 1339 Niagara St. for many years, becoming an officer and then co-owner with the late Oliver G. Veling. He retired in 1959. Fischer was a former member of the Buffalo Athletic Club, the Buffalo Whist Club and the Black Rock Businessmen's Association. A world traveler well into his retirement, he took a 45-day trip through the Far East at age 82.