Neal M. Dunning - Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the W. L Froehley Funeral Home in Lake Street for Neal M. Dunning, nationally known architect, who died in his Boston Rd. home Saturday following a long illness. The Rev. Harry E. Herman, rector of the Orchard Park Episcopal Church officiated at the funeral parlors and later in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Mr. Dunning had planned and supervised work in Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago and New York. Among some of the construction were buildings at the Chicago World's Fair. He had built many schools, industrial plants, business buildings and homes. Mr. Dunning was born in Peekskill, and was graduated from Detroit Institute and the University of Pennsylvania. During World War I, he studied at the Army War College in Washington, D.C. In 1918 he opened an office in the Prudential Bldg. For six years he designed many buildings in Lackawanna and Buffalo. He went to Detroit in 1924, where he became associated with the firm of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. From 1932 to 1941 he was construction supervisor for the American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. and for Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. He became supervisor of construction in 1941 for the W.T. Grant Co. He shifted to the War Department in 1943 and was assigned to the Buffalo District Office of the Engineer Corps in charge of flood control and marine construction. He remained with the War Department until 1946 when he joined the engineering office of J. Frochtbaum as consulting architect. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects and its Western New York Chapter, a charter member and director of the Associated Buffalo Architects, the State Association of Architects, and was a former member of the Peekskill Zoning Board of Appeals. He was a 32d degree Mason. Surviving are his wife, the former Edwina Howe ; a son, Neal E. Dunning ; two brothers, Edgar F. Dunning of Albany and Dr. Lester B. Dunning of Chatham.
