From the New York Times:
Wes Hill, who, like the other storied river men in his family, mastered the currents and crevices of the Niagara River and its falls and became an expert at saving lives and recovering bodies, died Monday in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He was 76.
His wife, Sarah, said that he had suffered an embolism, but that she did not know the exact cause of death  except that it was reassuringly natural. One of his brothers died going over the falls, and another brother and their father came close.
Mr. Hill was the last of his clan to live intimately with the river, hunting and fishing and hiking along the spectacularly surging currents. Like the others, he reaped praise and awards for rescuing people who accidentally or deliberately put themselves in danger. And like them, he made extra income from undertakers by retrieving bodies ($50 to $75).
“You might attach the word ‘legendary’ to them,” Sherman Zavitz, city historian of Niagara Falls, said in an interview with The New York Times in 2003. “That word gets overused, but in this case it’s appropriate. Their exploits are the stuff of legends and in many ways rather unique, especially the rescue aspect.”