From the Buffalo News, September 10, 1992:

STEVEN W. CLAY, GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATOR

A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in Unitarian Universalist Church, Elmwood Avenue and West Ferry Street, for Steven W. Clay, 44, an attorney who held several administrative positions with state and local government.

Clay died Monday (Sept. 7, 1992) in Erie County Medical Center after a short illness.

A native of Urbana, Ill., Clay grew up in Buffalo. He attended Bennett High School and was a graduate of the University of Rochester. He went on to attend Columbia University Law School, where he was on the university's Law Review Journal before graduating in 1977.

He returned to Buffalo, where he worked as a law clerk in the city's corporation …