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POLICE MARCH AT FUNERAL
[Welland Tribune January 8, 1947]
A large representation of the police forces of the Niagara District joined relatives and friends this morning in paying their final tributes to Provincial Constable Almer Charles McNamara. Constable McNamara died at the Niagara Peninsula Sanatorium last Sunday midnight at the age of 37.
The funeral was held from the H.L. Cudney Funeral Chapel, 241 West Main Street, to St Mary’s Church where requiem high mass was celebrated by Rev F.A. McKenna.
At the church ,police of the Niagara district including R.C.M.P. Provincial, and municipal police formed a guard of honor, 40 strong, as the casket was borne into the church, and following the mass and funeral service.
As the funeral cortege proceeded on its journey for burial in St Francis De La Salle Cemetery, Pickering, the police, under the command of Police Chief Thomas Gee, slow marched to the Niagara Street bridge as a final token of respect for their fallen comrade.
Casket bearers were Corporal I.R. Robbie and constables Frank Fox, R.H. Devereux, and Reg Bass of the local detachment of Provincial Police, and Frank Cooney and Norman Fach of the St Catharines detachment.
Among those attending the funeral was J.H. Campbell, recently retired magistrate.
Yesterday afternoon boys of Notre Dame School, and sanctuary boys of St Mary’s Church participated in prayers at the funeral chapel in sympathy with sons of the deceased who attend the school, and last night men of the parish were led in the Rosary by Father J.F. Culnan.
The Boy Scout troop of Boys’ Town acted as a guard of honor at the funeral chapel this morning.
The funeral cortege was met by a detachment of Provincial Police from Toronto and escorted to Pickering.
Among many floral tributes were flowers from the commissioner and staff of the Ontario Provincial Police, and the Welland County Police Association.
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