Boy Found Dead After Suitcase Tragedy At Vacation Home
Dr. Woodruff says rapid asphyxia caused the death of a 3 year old boy found missing from his bed while visiting his parents Ferdinand and Mary Mayer. Autopsy notes no suffocation but unknown details. suitcase size and child height used to assess likelihood of accidental death. Police continue to investigate the mystery surrounding the boy’s disappearance Saturday night in the Mayer household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferdinand L. Mayer
Woodruff
Associated Press
McKees
Kenneth
Bennington Briefs Highlight Local Election and Community Events
Bennington notes include John Kornitzer, Bennington Catholic High School junior, running for attorney general as a Nationalist Party delegate to Boys State in Northfield. Elections are today. Local residents travel, weddings and demonstrations are listed along with hospital equipment demos at Putnam Memorial Hospital on June 25 and a Women’s Democratic Club meeting on Monument Road.
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John Kornitzer
Bennington
Northfield
Nationalist Party
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Leonard A. Wilson
New York
Switzerland
Iean
Bertha Snow
Roger W. Tubby
United States
United Nations
Geneva
Wilsons
Chevy Chase
Wilson
State
Obituary of John D. Kerney WWI veteran and tea room operator
John D. Kerney 68 longtime Ethan Allen Tea Room Harwood Hill proprietor died Tuesday at home born Staten Island December 31 1893 son of Michael and Elizabeth Kerney survived by wife Kathryn Rich one son John Kerney Cleveland Ohio two sisters Mrs John Gordon West Brighton N Y Mrs Henry Freidhoff Milltown N J one brother Frank Kerney Staten Island funeral Friday Steers Steers Funeral Home West New Brighton N Y burial Woodland Cemetery Staten Island
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John D. Kerney
Ethan Allen
Harwood Hill
Staten Island
N. Y
Michael
Elizabeth (Dunlap) Kerney
Waterman Pen Co
New York City
Co. D
30Th Inf
France
Germany
Kathryn Rich
St. Peter’s Church
West 20Th St
John Kerney
Cleveland
Ohio
John Gordon
West Brighton
N.Y
Henry Freidhoff
Milltown
N.J
Frank Kerney
Steers & Steers Funeral Home
West New Brighton
Woodland Cemetery
Funeral services for Earl Hicks held in Bennington
Funeral services for Earl Hicks a longtime Bennington resident who died after a long illness at Putnam Memorial Hospital were conducted at Mahar & Son Funeral Home led by Rev. Melvin R. McGauhey with pallbearers from Union Carbide Consumer Products where Hicks worked 17 years. Delegations from Union Carbide Tansitor Electronics and Putnam Memorial Hospital attended. Burial in Park Lawn Cemetery. Relatives and friends from Rocky Hill Conn Buskirk Hoosick Falls Roslyn Schenectady Williamstown North Adams and Haworth Mass also joined the services.
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Earl Hicks
Bennington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Melvin R. McGaughey
First Methodist Church
Union Carbide Consumer Products
Mr. Hicks
Earl C. Harvey
James A. Bow
Jerry Keough
Walter Danish
Leonard Anzivino
Terrance Riley
Union Carbide
Tansitor Electronics
Vermont Soldiers’ Home
Park Lawn Cemetery
Rocky Hill
Conn
Buskirk
Hoosick Falls
Roslyn
Schenectady
N.Y
Williamstown
North Adams
Haworth
Mass
Requiem service for Nathaniel Tyler at Trinity Rutland
Nathaniel Tyler of Rutland formerly of Bennington had a Holy Communion requiem service at Trinity Church Rutland on Tuesday with Rev. John W. Nourse officiating. Bearers included Edward L. Durgin G Steven Goodrich Peter D. Dolan and Christopher E. Oakman. Burial planned Thursday in Hollywood Cemetery Richmond Virginia.
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Nathaniel Tyler
Rutland
Bennington
Trinity Church
John W. Nourse
Edward L. Durgin
G. Steven Goodrich
Peter D. Dolan
Christopher E. Oakman
Robert English
Robert A. Webber
Robert E. van Buskirk
Robert E. Schiff
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond
Peoples Bus Line offers new through service in New England
Peoples Bus Line of Brattleboro launches direct through service connecting Keene New Hampshire Brattleboro and Bennington with Vermont Transit buses. The schedule runs Monday through Saturday starting June 21 with no service July 4 and Sept 3.
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Keene
N.H
Brattleboro
Bennington
Vermont Transit
Peoples Bus Line, Inc
Albany
Boston
Kennedy Sought Rockefeller Embarrassment Tactic
Hughes says the New Jersey GOP appeal to Governor Rockefeller was at Kennedy's request to embarrass him. He denies White House involvement and says the move was non political. He notes Democratic governors Dempsey, Lawrence and Carvel joined the appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Hughes
Washington
Robert F. Wagner
New York City
Govs
John Dempsey
Connecticut
David Lawrence
Pennsylvania
Elbert Carvel
Delaware
Rockefeller
Minor Pleaded Guilty for Malt Beverage Possession
Donald E. Mears junior, 18, of 202 Ben Mont Ave, was fined 15 and warned on the seriousness of possessing malt beverages. His father Donald H. Mears, also of the same address, entered a guilty plea for his son in Municipal Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald E. Mears
Ben- Mont Ave
Donald H. Mears
Day Camp Registration Opens for Sugar Bush Camp
Registration blanks mailed to over 250 Brownie and Intermediate Scouts in the Bennington Girl Scout Council for Sugar Bush Day Camp in Pownal. Camp runs 9 30 a m to 3 30 p m July 23 to August 4 with 80 girls aged 7 to 14, divided into four units. Non-scouts may pick up forms at Bennington and North Bennington libraries. fees eight dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugarbush
Pownal
Bennington
Bernard Whitman
RFD 2
North Bennington
Fractures Back In Fall from Horse
Mrs. Paul Kelley suffered a broken vertebrae when thrown from a horse while riding near her Burgess Road home. She was taken to Putnam Memorial Hospital and expected to stay six to eight weeks. Her husband, supervisor at the Bennington sewage treatment plant, said she was sedated and details were unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Kelley
Burgess Road
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Little Dukes
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Carol Cummings
Carol Farrington
Wrgb-Tv
Mrs DuCharme
Seveal
Janet Flynn
School of Baton
George Bruneau
Suzanne Chechile
Russell Christie
Christopher Christie
Leland Watters
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Rickey Leonard
Tina LaRoche
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Sheila Iskovitz
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Patti Casey
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JoAnn Wade
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Libra Napolitano
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Judy Flynn
Heck
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William Millard
Terry LaRoche
Michael DiGangi
Lee Owen
Stars OF Tomorrow
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Sleeping Beauty Ballet
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Charlene Kittel
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Debbie Ryan
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Linda Caron
Betsy Jones
Anne McLaughlin
Prince of the Elves
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M.E. Rudd O
Hotpoint
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Bennington Briefs
Henry Strohmaier
Middle Pownal Road
Lake Champlain
Vermont
Strohmaier
Women’s Democratic Club
Richard van Santvoord
Monument Road
Robert E. Cummings Jr
Howard Tripp
Cheryl
Lee. Mass
Mr. Tripp
Cassie
Judy Moore
Mary Sennett
Ivars Vitenbergs
Lake Morey
Bennington Sisters
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Peoples Bus Line
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Jack Lemmon
Ricky Nelson
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Lex Barker
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W. Kehoe
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Robert McWaters
Edith Macy
Kehoe
J. Russell Carpenter Jr
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Whitman
Mackey
Arthur Grant
Council
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A. E. Wickenden
Latham Circle
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Johnson
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Latham
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