Seaway Closes for Winter as Seven Ships Remain
MASSENA The St. Lawrence Seaway is officially closed for the winter with seven ships still in the system. Massena office spokeswoman Madelyn Pruski said one vessel may spend the season in the seaway while eleven ships cleared before the Friday midnight closing. Six ships lie beyond the Welland Canal and the Hand Fortune is the farthest back. Buoy removal begins tomorrow and no reopening date is set.
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Massena
St. Lawrence Seaway
Madelyn Pruski
St. Lawrence
Falls delay stage return for Utica actress Hurt
Yolandia Maria Hurtt, a 360 pound actress in The Wiz touring company, may be unable to return to the stage for two months after a December 6 fall through a trap door at St Elizabeth Hospital Utica. Dr. Lin says she fractured her spine and may lose motor function in her legs, expecting four more weeks in hospital before transfer to Cleveland for recovery near family.
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Utica
Yolandia
Miss Hurt
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Cleveland
Ohio
Fire destroys Moravia two family residence
Moravia fire officials say a two story wood frame house at 15 William St. was fully involved when the Moravia Fire Department arrived Friday night. Mutual aid came from Locke Genoa and New Hope volunteers. A faulty bottled gas stove caused the blaze. Three firefighters were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation and a cut hand. The home was owned by Caroi Fickersen and occupied by Cynthia Plunkett and Ann Bouck.
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Moravia
Wiliam Sti
Locke
Genoa
New Hope
Caroi Fickersen
Cynthia Plunkett
Ann Bouck
Stolen revolver returned to Fuddy's Sporting Goods
Oswego police recovered an Oswego .38 snub nose revolver stolen from Fuddy's Sporting Goods weeks earlier. The store window was found broken yesterday morning and Patrolman Albert Lee Lewis saw the gun inside at 6:18 after an earlier check at 3:40 am found nothing. Police believe the hammer was broken on the door side.
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Oswego
Fuddy’s Sporting Goods
Albert Lee Lewis
Deaths in Syracuse area prompt multiple obituaries
Obituary notices list James E. Casson age 75 of 166 W Onondaga St died December 16 1976 survived by wife Mildred Pfeiffer Casson and children with service details at Whelan Bros Funeral Home and Most Holy Rosary Church spring burial at Resurrection Chapel and Marys Cemetery. Additional notices for Joseph Morgan Cooper 72 of Fayetteville obituary with memorial service at Trinity Episcopal Church and donation to American Cancer Society. Marty J Green 87 of Attory with services. and multiple funeral homes named Anson Glanville Tappan and others.
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Casson
James E. Casson
W. Onondaga St
Mildred Pfeiffer Casson
James P
Robert J
Charles E
Henry
Mary) Zaborowski
John
Patricia Boite
Mary Casson
Whelan Bros
Church of the Most Holy Rosary
St. Marys
Dewitt
Onondaga St
Whalan Stat
Lng
Cooper Cooper
Joseph Morgan
North
Maniius St
Fayeneville
Jans Kerr Cooper
Joseph Aa, Jr
Walter K. Cooper
Margaretc. Dwight
Mary B. Cooper
Charles B. Cooper
Fayetteville Trinity Episcopal Church
Roland Nichols
American Cancer Society
Eaton-Tubes
Harry Ray Murphy
Lawrence Rd
Syracuse
Camber
Elizabeth Cowie Aturphy
Robert W
James
James R. R
Northminster Presbyterian Church
N. Syracuse
North Syracuse
SearsfAiddleton Funeral Home
Leare Mio
NIMC
Death notices from Syracuse area obituaries and funeral services
Obituary items list Jane N Goff of Cazenovia widow of Roy Goff with two daughters and relatives, service Monday at Eaton Tubbs Funeral Home Fayetteville with spring burial at Dalphi Cemetery. Other notices include Frank R Harmon, Harry Ray Murphy, John Patanella, and several funeral homes with service details and memorials.
Stephens Kowalka Stephens obituary in Dunedin Syracuse
Stella Kowalka Stephens aged 73 of Dunedin Florida former Syracuse resident died December 15 1978 survived by a daughter Evelyn White four sisters and three grandchildren services Tuesday at 8 15 a m at Gininski Wysocki Funeral Home and 9 a m at Sacred Heart Church interment Sacred Heart Cemetery calling hours Monday 3 5 7 9 p m contributions to Sacred Heart Church Renovation Fund or Syracuse Food Service Executives Scholarship Fund
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Sacred Heart Church
Adolph A. Kantor
Gurial Sacred Heart Cemetery
Sacred Heart Church Renovation Fund
Syracuse Food Service Executives Scholarship Fund
Giminskewelock
Funeral Home
Simonetti
Tillie Simonetti
Benoit Or
Lakeland
Roy m M. Simonetti
Sam Cavallaro
Pat Fiore
Joseph Moore
Pat Amendolore
Ray Scania
Bagozzi Twins
Solvay
Cecilia
Belle Isle Cemetery
Bagozo Twins
IC Inc
Santa greets crowd at Malone Memorial Park fire truck
Gordon W. Barkman photographed a scene in Malone as Santa waved from a village Fire Department truck at Memorial Park. The Herald-Journal notes the Around Your Hometown Pictures feature appears every Tuesday.
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Gordon W. Barkman
Memorial Park
Malone
Santa
The
Herald-Journal
Oswego Deaths Highlight Siembor Family Ties and Church Links
John Shambo Siembor 98 of 50 Hart St Oswego died after a short illness. A retired Columbia Mills employee, he was married to the late Sophie Kon Siembor and belonged to St Kazmiersz Society the Polish American Club and St Stephen's Church. Surviving are six sons and four daughters with services Tuesday at Kozlowski Funeral Home and St Stephen's Church. calling hours today and tomorrow. In Central Square Velora Lyall 66 formerly of Hastings died in Florida. She leaves two brothers and two sisters. Graveside services will be at Hillside Cemetery in the spring with Traub Funeral Home in charge.
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Oswego
John “Shambo” Siembor
Hart St
Siembor
Columbia Mills
Sophie Kon Siembor
St. Kazmiersz Society
St. Stephen's Church
Stanley
Joan
Joseph
Theodore
Mitchell
Eugene Siembor
Rochester
Victoria Lavery
Veronica Siembor
Helen Brennan
Mary Polczak
Kozlowski
W. Bridge St
St Stephen’s Church
Central Square
Velora Lyall
Hastings
Bontifay
Fla
Archie
Oda Yelle
Syracuse
Florence Sails
Hillside Cemetery
Traub Funeral Home
Obituaries for Yarmer Bush Schmidt in Waterloo Port Byron Oswego
Obituaries list Otto J Yarmer 67 of Waterloo died Friday at Tay lor-Brown Memorial Hospital with services set for Tuesday at Genung Funeral Home. Burial at St Mary's Cemetery. Also Harold Buddy Bush 52 of Port Byron died in Clinton North Carolina with services Tuesday at Scott Mann and Lundy Funeral Directors and St John's Church Fort Byron. Burial at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. George H Schmidt 85 of Oswego died yesterday at Pontiac Nursery Home with services Tuesday at Grace Lutheran Church and burial at Riverside Cemetery. He leaves two daughters a son and several grandchildren. Retired from Niagara Mohawk and WWI veteran, he lived in Oswego and was involved with Grace Lutheran Church.
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Port Byron
Harold
Buddy” Bush
King Street
Clinton
N.C
Bush
Beatrice Alfred Bush
Susan Bigness
Marcellus
Jo Marie Bush
North Carolina
John
Dim
Jack
Bernadine Aldrich
Eleanor Anabile
Montazuma
Scott, Mann and Lundy
St. John’s Catholic Church
Fort Byron
Bernard Enchman
Mount Pleasant
Funeral
Oswego
George H. Schmidt
Cherry St
Pontiac
Grace Lutheran Church
Brice V. Schrader
Riverside Cemetery
Dowdie Funeral Home
Schmidt
Rosa Hoffman Schmidt
Henry and
Mary Shurr Schmidt
Niagara Mohawk
Lavere-Harrington Post
VFW
Mary Schmidt
Louise Cloonan
George Schmidt
Springfield
Mass
Charles Roger Smith
Harold Schmidt
Obituaries: Willard F. Savage and Peter DeMetro
Willard F Sav age 69 of Fort Covington died Friday at Alice Hyde Hospital Malone Services at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St Marys Church Burial in parish cemetery Calling hours 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today Cosgrove Funeral Home Waterloo Peter DeMetro 85 of Brewer Road Waterloo RD 2 died early yesterday at Taylor Brown Memorial Hospital after several weeks illness Services Tuesday at St Marys Church Burial in St Marys Cemetery Calling hours 7 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today and tomorrow Surviving four sons James Samuel John Anthony DeMetro Waterloo four daughters Madeline Cavali Mary Passalacqua Jane Chapman Geneva Anna Larizza Seneca Falls 21 grandchildren 26 great grandchildren Born in Palermo Sicily longtime resident of this community Owned and operated general store 40 years in Waterloo prior to retirement last employed by State Department of Transportation
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Waterloo
Otto J. Yarmer
Watts Road
Taylor-Brown Memorial
Watertown
Ann Witter
Houston
Tex
Deitz
Wyo
Yarmer
Fort Covington
Willard F. Savage
Alice Hyde Hospital
Malone
St. Mary's Church
Peter DeMetro
Brewer Road
RD 2
Taylor-Brown Memorial Hospital
James
Samuel
Geneva
John
Syracuse
Anthony DeMetro
Madeline Cavali
Mary Passalacqua
Jane Chapman
Anna Larizza
Seneca Falls
Palermo
Sicily
DeMetro
State Department of Transportation
Deaths of the Week list scattered names across multiple cities
A lengthy death notices column lists numerous individuals with ages and addresses in places including Pulaski Syracuse East Syracuse Cicero and Utica. Entries mention Mrs Elsie Wyckott Vinton Mrs Margaret Snyder Peter Flannigan Willem Wente and many others with partial street addresses, dates and locales, reflecting a merged obituary rundown.
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Reber Ww. Knox
Pulaski
Giovanni
Geremia
Norwood Ave
George A. Goebel
Columbus
Rebert TaAathews
Mathews Drewe
Burdette Aten
Tully Mes Emm Petersen
Cedarvale Road
Elsie Wyckott Vinton
Navaring
Margaret E. Snyder
Syracuse
Robert E. Linstryth
Central Square
Anna E. Schaum
Keen Place
Lyte G. Babcock
Wilbur Ave
Edward A Mulhern
Centre
Herbert C. Black
Phoenix
Cassigs J
Lamoay
Highland
John F. O'Neill
Mattydale Ts
Henre Campbell Vandemark
Cicero
Adris Margaret WM. Cahill
LaFayette Road
Joha
J. Krisuk
Kingston
Ontario
Irene D. Hanson
We Cheltham Road
Peter W
Bui Flannigan
Tucson
Ariz
Willem C. Wente
Wente Terrace
Newark bus hijacking report doubted
Betty Woodruff 35 of Wolcott faced Newark Village Court on a misdemeanor charge after police said her report of a hijacking by a teen was false. She claimed a 16 year old forced her at gunpoint to drive toward Sodus Point, but investigators doubted the incident and found the bus abandoned with bus fare and $234 missing.
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Newark
Wayne County Area Transport Service
Serene
Siac Dak
Go Point
Betty Woodruff
Wolcott
Jackson Burn
RIDERSHIP INCREASES AT CENTRAL NEW YORK TRANSIT
At a monthly Central New York Regional Transportation Authority meeting, executive director Warren Frank reported a 10.6 percent rise in riders across Onondaga Cayuga and Oswego counties for November. Passenger revenues increased 12 percent, with total revenue passengers rising from 1,029,069 in November 1977 to 1,199,128 in November 1978.
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Onondaga
Cayuga
Oswego
Central New York Regional Transportation Authority
Cnyrta
Warren Frank
Centro
Frank
Morrisville Obituary for Philip Rodriguez
Philip Gregory Rodriguez 18 of Islip L L died Friday in Islip. Survived by parents Julio and an Anne Marie. brothers Richard Ronald Matthew. grandmother Celia Heiney of Hamilton. grandparents Heulio Rodriguez of Puerto Rico. Services in Islip with spring burial Peterboro Cemetery. Local arrangements by Charles D Barker Funeral Home.
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Morrisville
Philip Gregory Rodriguez
Islip
L.L
Julio Rodriguez
Anne Marie Rodriguez
Richard
Ronald
Matthew Rodriguez
Francelia Heiney
Hamitton
Heulio Rodriguez
Puerto Rico
Peterboro
Charles D. Barker
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Fayette ST
Uadynsh. Funeral Home Ing
W. Genesee St
Buranich “Funeral Home Inc
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Comoe
Burns, J.P. & Son, Inc. Funeral Directors
Salina ST
Carter Funeral Home, Inc
Grant Ghd
Civic Funeral Home, Inc
Kime St
Commark
Foran
Mgr Delaney & Grenbell
Kone St
Eaton-Tubbs
Genesee St
Harm Frank R. Harmon
Hartson St
Eleanora
Greenleaf Funeral Home, Inc Murphy
Patanella
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East Syracuse
Virginia Mynich
Coonie Garris
Joseph Gabriel
Cline Funeral Home
St. Matthew's Church
Resurrection Chapel
Eaves Ambulance Corps
Clove Funeral Home
Farone & Son, Inc
Park St
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Frasier-Shepardson Funeral Home
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Garfield Funeral Home
Gaynor-Maslyn, Inc
Stauth Ave
Greenleaf Funeral Home, Inc
Omondagea
Harold E Agare Funeral
Willis Ave
John GC
Tindall Funeral Home Inc
Genesae
John G. Butler, Inc. Funeral Home
Keegan-Osbeli-Knight Funeral Home
M. Salma
Pirro & Sons, Inc
Turtle St
Sears-Middleton Funeral Home, Inc
Weler Funeral Home, Inc
James Si
Urschel
Carl J. Urschel
Presidential Plaza
Dorothy Pabst
Charles Ae Richard N. Urschel
Jeanne
Whelan Bros. Funeral Home
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Assumption
Whelan Bros. Inc
Wente
William
Peter Hootjes
C. Earle Johnson
Earl A Aaason
Whelan Bros. Funeral
Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Hayes Monuments Cadarvale Rs
Spt
Rock
Hos
Karl Luiz Monument Co
Main St. Phoeni
N.Y
Walser
Owen Valley Pemsiery
Grant Bhd
Moumest
Fairchild & Meech
Tee
Funeral Chapel
Onrondoas
Dewitt Chapel
Tnc
Erie Bhd . E
John Siembor
Harold Bush
Cosgrove Funeral Home
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary's Cemetery
Anthony Koslowski
State Fair Area
Macy Tessier
Midland Ave
Eleanor Ewanski
Sxeups
Hawiey Ave
Canaltig
Cousins
Leverpool
Charles H. Feigel
Geile Ave
Alten B. Donkin
Hatherry Roid
Esther
Jordan
Mary C. Santore
Eliasbeth F. Egan
Shotwell
Deoris Pilger
Kuni Ave
Jonn &, Krisak
Fast
Charles HM. Feigel
Selis Ave
Vincenza R. Esposit
Plymouth Drive
Raymond H. Brown Sr
Cam- Mas
Chores E. Nicholas, Bernhards Bay
Dorothy Duggan Gallinto
E. Willon
Ennaabeth Green
Westvale
Conelio
Constas
Luverpoel
Fhursday
Donald A. Dike
Cazenovia
Harry Rey Murphy
William A. Hackwelder
Hood Ave
Dorica L. Collins
Lindbergh Road
Mabel B. Sans
Geddes
Leona A. Jones
Tittie Simonetta
Laketend
Marion Ryan Lambert
Phoenx
Rosaline “Rosie” M. Ausfin
Gladys Zado
Prank Narmen
dArs
Honor Machu
Burns Ave
Ethel M. Perwitz
Fulton
Leon Carton Carter
Dona ‘’Shambe” Slembor
Montaga St
Philip Gregory
Oswego Hospital
Foster Funeral Home
Fay St
Richard Northrop
North Valney
Sayles Corners
Perwitz
Charles Perwitz
State Street United
CBS Nsm
NSM
National Selected Morticians
Fairchild & Meech Inc. Funeral Chapel
W. Onondaga
Fairchild & Meech Inc
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