The son of Fred Locke, Louis Locke died at age 68

Local Businessman Dies Following Long Illness

The Stever-Locke Corporation of North Main Street suffered the loss of its President, Louis P. Locke. The well-known industrialist passed away at his family home in Victor last Saturday, Janaury 22, 1955, after a long period of ill health. He was 68 years of age. Memorial rites were held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Cotton Funeral Home in Victor with interment in Boughton Hill Cemetery among the pleasant rural scenes which Mr. Locke had loved so much.

Stanley Stever, Vice President of the local firm had gone with Mrs. Stever to spend the week in their vacation home at Eagle Bay, but returned to Honeoye Falls as soon as the news about Mr. Locke reached them. The Stever-Locke factory was closed Monday in honor of its deceased executive.

Born in Canandaigua 68 years ago, Mr. Locke grew to manhood in the area and lived for half a century on Fisher Road, Victor, where he was widely known and esteemed. He was a son of the founder of the Locke Insulator Company from which developed the Victor Insulator Company and related firms in the field of wet process porcelain insulators.

Interested in the growth of radio, Mr. Locke patented several radio parts of his own invention and began making the products in a modest way. At the family home previous to WW II, the business grew and after the war he became associated with Stanley Stever of Honeoye Falls in founding the present successful Stever-Locke plant. The two men have worked faithfully in developing it from where fifty people are employed and a large volume of business is turned over annually.

Known as a pleasant, friendly man, Mr. Locke will be greatly missed in the local business connection as well as in his home neighborhood. Surviving are the wife, Irma, and three brothers who are Morton in Dobbs Ferry, Peer in Rome, and James in Canandaigua. Mr. Locke was also a distant relative of the O'Brien family, editors and publishers of The Honeoye Falls Times.