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- Buffalo NY Courier Express - 4/30/1968
Mrs. Austin C. McTigue, wife
of a Canisius College physics
professor, died Monday in Sisters
Hospital after a bng illness. She
was active in social service work
and politics.
The former Loretta Brinkworth
had been a Democratic committeewoman
for 25 years. She was
a lifelong resident of Buffalo.
Was School Teacher
Mrs. McTigue had been a grade
school teacher as a young woman
and later was a field investigator
for the Buffalo Better Business
Bureau.
After service with the Erie
County Department of Social
Welfare, Mrs. McTigue assisted
during World War I in the sale
of bonds and later in the distribution
of suplus food as a volunteer
worker.
Mrs. McTigue earned merit pins
for volunteer service with the
USO and at Sisters Hospital. She
was a member of the hospital's
Marillac Guild for many years
and has been a member of its
board of directors.
Aided College
During World War II, Mrs. McTigue
and some friends assisted
the Canisius College Physics Department
in the manufacture of
unobtainable equipment for laboratory
instruction of U.S. Army
Air Corps trainees.
Her husband, Dr. McTigue, formally
served as chairman of the
college Physics Department and
is now a professor of Physics
there.
While living at Duke University
I in 1958, she continued her volun
teer work at the Veterans Ad-
ministration Hospitall in Durham,
N.C.
Mrs. McTigue was a member of
the Altar and Rosary Society of
St. Joseph's Cathedral and the
Canisius College Faculty Wives
Associates. She enjoyed design-
ing her own hats.
Funeral Thursday
Surviving in addition to her hus-1
band is a brother, Frank J. Brinkworth
of Buffalo.
Prayers will be said at 8:45
a.m. Thursday in the Killeen Funeral
Home, 615 Elmwood Ave.,
followed by a Solemn Requiem
Mass at 9:15 in St. Joseph's
Cathedral, Delaware and W. Utica.
Murial will be in Mount Calvary
Cemetery, Cheektowaga
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