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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1940
Page
7
Deaths listed for Boland Brown Burgan Crouse Fisher Kline Riley Roberts Stowall Taylor Tobin and related notices. Services at homes and churches in Syracuse Oswego Fulton and nearby. Interments at Manlius Morgantown and Mount Adnah with funeral arrangements by local firms.
Local florists offer funeral designs from $1.50 and New Year corsages including garcenias violets statics roses and mistiches. Syracuse firms AJ Markowitz Syracuse Cut Flower Co Wm P Lynch advertise services and phone numbers. Government notices list a seized 1932 Chevrolet in Syracuse for tax violations and bid invites for a 40 ton pickup truck for the Bureau of Gas and Electricity.
Mrs Antoinette van Gaasbeek Nash wife of Syracuse attorney John F Nash led women’s groups as founder and longtime president of the Women’s Exchange She chaired the Women’s Parochial Society at St Pauls and helped with the Lockwood Memorial parish house Her WWI canteen service aided soldiers on troop trains Her son Alexander was gassed in France and died in 1925 Surviving are her husband two daughters and funeral is set for 10 AM Monday at their home Burial at Albany Rural Cemetery
Solemn high mass for Mrs Elizabeth Mullane Hanley of Arlington Avenue was held at Most Holy Rosary Church with burial in St Agnes Cemetery. Final rites were conducted for James E Roderick at Snyder's chapel and St Joseph's Church with burial in St Mary's Cemetery. John G Ayerst 69 of Manlius died Wednesday with services at Goddard Crandall and Saint Mary's Church Minoa and burial in Clayton. Burial plans noted for residents of Aitchinson Road Howlett Hill and related survivors listed.
Benjamin E. Brown aged 68 of 1408 Midland Avenue died Thursday. Bearers at the funeral Monday were James Ryan Frank Roberts Wesley Faulder Thomas McDonald Walter Dickerson and Charles Shafer. Rites at 2 PM at the family home conducted by Rev. Dr. J H Downey. Burial in Morningside Cemetery.
Frances E Coakes 69 native of Minoa and longtime resident died Friday at a niece home in East Syracuse Services conducted Monday at the niece home then Saint Marys Church Minoa Burial in Saint Marys Cemetery Minoa She is survived by two sisters Lillian Peat East Syracuse and Martha Harding North Manlius plus several nieces and nephews.
Private funeral services were held for Mrs Enna MM Crouse who died Friday at her Memphis home. She was a native of Van Buren and former Grass Lake resident. Burial will be in Fayetteville. Survived by husband Guy Crouse a daughter Mrs Sterling Pierce of Memphis a brother Charles J Merriman of Boston four sisters Mrs Guy C Bown Baldwinsville Mrs John W Brown Warners Mrs Edward T Hatten Camillus and Miss Bernice Merriman Miami and three grandchildren.
Funeral services for C Edward Eager were conducted at 2 PM Friday at his home 154 Beverly Road by Rev Claude H Leyfield rector of Trinity Episcopal Church. Burial followed in Glenwood Cemetery Oneida with bearers Henry Neejer G T Bentley John Horrocks Gordon Nutting Henry Sherer and Bert Klime.
Mrs Anna W Kent died Thursday at her daughter Edna K Fenno's home 145 West Beard Avenue Auburn. Funeral conducted at 2 P M Saturday at 14 Grant Street Auburn by Rev Harold Kearns First Universalist Church Auburn. Burial at Soule Cemetery Auburn.
Funeral services are announced for John Mellen who died Thursday in St Josephs Hospital. He formerly worked for L C Smith and Corona Typewriters and retired long ago due to ill health. The rites will begin at 8 45 A M Monday at his home and at 9 30 A M at Saint John the Evangelist Church. Burial will follow in Saint Marys Cemetery. He was a communicant and member of Saint John the Evangelist Church Holy Name Society and Syracuse Lodge of Eagles. Surviving are his wife Celia and two brothers Edward and Michael Mellen of Cortland plus several nieces and nephews.
Mrs Eliza Kew of 114 Beacon Street died Thursday. Rites held at 9 o clock in Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception with Rt. Rev. Msgr. James P. McPeak officiating. Burial followed at Assumption Cemetery with committal services read by Father Ryan. Bearers listed as Edward, Arthur, John, Francis, James and Dr William Cahtill.
Members of St Stanislaus Society PLA C U attended the funeral for Helen Prusinowski who died Tuesday. Services began at 830 am at 1427 Burnet Avenue then 9 am High Mass of Requiem at Transfiguration Church conducted by Rev Edward Misiuta. Bearers included Victor Prusinowski Julian Prusinowski Alexander Siespietowski Alexander Turowiecki Stanley Cerotowski and John Kozlowski. Interment followed at Sacred Heart Cemetery where Father Misiuta read committal services.
Private funeral services will be held for Mrs Catherine Leah Tobin at her home at 1423 Teall Avenue and Saint John the Evangelist Church. Burial will follow in Fulton. Survivors include son Frederick Tobias of Rochester daughter Mrs Frederick Dix of Syracuse brother Marcus Crahan of Providence sister Miss Mary Ellen Crahan of Rochester seven grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Prayer service for John H. Valentine retired investment broker who died Wednesday held at 2 P M at his home 401 West Beard Avenue. Funeral services followed at 3 o'clock in South Presbyterian Church conducted by Rev Dr John T Reeve. Bearers listed and burial at Morningside Cemetery.
Matilda Amos Miller 90, longtime Syracuse resident and widow of Jacob P. Miller, died Friday at her daughter Mrs J G Norton’s home in Watertown after seven years of ill health. She lived in Watertown ten years born October 16 1850 in Syracuse. Survived by son Jacob P. Miller Jr of Syracuse granddaughter Delos Cosgrove of Watertown and great grandson Delos Cosgrove III, sister to the late Jacob and Charles Amos. Funeral in Watertown Monday with body to return to Syracuse for Oakwood Cemetery burial.
Obituary notices list aged residents across the Syracuse region including Alvin Smith 86 Faust. Mrs Z G Boyer 69 Interlaken. Levi Livermore 91 Hounsfield Edson Eugene Goodspeed 73 Watertown. Bertram E Jones Utica. John L Smithers 19 Utica. Mrs Ellen Eugen 86 Utica. Mrs Bridget Quilty 76 Lowville. Mrs Emily B Graves 70 Boonville. Miss Rhoda Youngs 72 Lowville. Willard M Wallace 87 Norwich. Mrs Mary E Lipp 81 Cortland. Mrs Katherine Joslyn Auburn. Frederick Smith 87 Norwood.
R M Fisher 55 proprietor of Fisher s Restaurant on Marshall Street Fayetteville died Friday at home 527 East Genesee Street. Rites are Monday at the family home with burial in Fayetteville Cemetery. Survivors include wife Ruth two daughters Elda and Nancy two sisters Grace Abbey Hazel Phelps and father Mattius Fisher. Fisher formerly auto dealer and Syracuse University alumnus known to students as Pop Betas Vass.
Mrs Harriett E Arnold 97 former matron at Onondaga Penitentiary died Friday at a niece’s home in Liverpool after a long illness. A native of Freetown she served about 30 years at the penitentary. She is survived by a sister and two brothers and several nieces. Funeral 2:30 Sunday at F R Sears North Syracuse with burial there.
William Francis Broderick 53 a Pompey native and division manager for C P McCormick & Co of Baltimore died in Memphis Tennessee on December 20. Born June 10 1887 he was a son of William F and Mary A Broderick and a Alfred University graduate who worked 25 years with McCormick Co in Pittsburgh Fort Smith Arkansas and Memphis. He last visited Syracuse July 1940 at his sister Jennie Seamans Camillus. He leaves wife Maude V daughter Mrs Robert Atkinson three sisters Mrs Seamans Mrs Gertrude Smith Mrs Emma Whitford and a brother Harry B Case. Funeral held December 24 in Memphis.
Saturday services honored Geraldine Hines nine and John Dougherty seven who drowned Wednesday in the Oneida River at Brewerton. Mass was held at Saint Cecelia's Solvay with bearers from Boyd School. Burial followed at St Mary's Cemetery.
Dr Lyman Cheney aged 80 a Syracuse born physician died in Washington DC after a lingering illness He was brother of the late Supreme Court Justice Jerome L Cheney Formerly a lung specialist at Onondaga Sanatorium He had lived in Washington for the last years and was retired for a decade Survived by his wife and a brother the details appear from a fragmented obituary fragment.
Dr Frederick J Moffitt warned at the New York State Teachers Association and State Vocational Association conference that schools must prepare for a war of machines and defend American ideals. Faculty leaders spoke on vocational education, athletic officiating, and the role of schools in industry.
Mabel Douglas Brown 16 daughter of Mr and Mrs adam S Brown of 110 Shirley Drive died suddenly of a heart condition at 7 15 AM today at her home Coroner H Ernest Galt notified and released the body to a funeral director She leaves her parents a brother Peter Scott Brown and grandfather David Holmes She was a student at Onondaga Valley Academy and a Triangle Club member Funeral is 2 PM Monday at the family home with burial in Onondaga Valley Cemetery
Chief Justice Hughes told National Conference of Christians and Jews representatives that liberty rests on sacred individual rights regardless of race or creed. He warned that racial intolerance is a deadly enemy of democracy. The group, founded in 1928 by Hughes, Baker and Cadman, presented an award by Compton Straus OConnell Clinchy in New York.
Crown Prosecutor Frank Griffiths said Frederick E. Wheeler a 47 year old Buffalo insurance executive abandoned his appeal to the Ontario Appellate Court Wheeler was convicted Oct 17 of violating the foreign exchange control act by attempting to import securities into Canada without a permit and forging a declaration to customs officials
The Rev Albert W Taylor of 903 Westcott Street died yesterday in St. Petersburg Florida where he had wintered He was 78 and survived by his wife Harriet Parsons Taylor A former Congregational minister he joined the Syracuse Presbytery in 1912 He had been retired over 17 years The body will return to Syracuse tomorrow night Funeral services set for 11 am Monday at Garfield funeral home 515 Westcott Street officiated by Rev John R Woodcock Interment Gorham Cemetery Gorham
Lewis M. Douglas, president of Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, stated in a letter to Syracuse manager Stanley R. Fockler that a retirement plan for full time representatives will start January 1. Employees contribute to the fund and company matches. The retirement payout can be taken in one of three optional arrangements.
Arthur K. Bradley, principal, spoke at a secondary high school conference at Onondaga Hotel. He defined social competence as the ability to participate with satisfaction in duties, stressing the need to prepare individuals for interdependent society and to foster idealism capable of withstanding modern shocks. He outlined King Ferry’s role as a community center promoting adult education alongside child training.
Erwin H. Forbush of the Production Credit Corporation proposed a three point program at a Syracuse hotel meeting for New York vocational agriculture instructors. He urged greater use of cooperative credit in high school projects and public speaking on credit problems, citing 34 associations with about 1 000 farmer members.
The Little Theater of Syracuse hosts a hay ride tonight meeting at 7 30 in West Onondaga Street clubrooms. The group travels to Knoll Wood Farms Riding Club for supper at 9 with games planned. Committee members include Ted Beauden Eleanor Merz Betty Gilman and A Andrew Shaffer.
Dr. Harrison H. VanCott, chief of the State bureau of instructional supervision for secondary education, urged junior high principals at a holiday conference in Onondaga Hotel to nurture early adolescents social impulses. He warned that ignoring these impulses could foster social incompetency and poor home school community service.
Dr. L Grant Hector of the University of Buffalo criticizes New York high school science syllabi for omitting key discoveries of the last century and reliance on memory exams. He urges practical teaching and access to reference books in exams, noting modern physics topics and applications are left out of the 1938 syllabus. Other speakers at the New York State Science Teachers Association meeting include leaders from Syracuse, Glens Falls, Lockport, Rochester and Northport.
Obituaries list Ernest E. Lawford 70, actor. Miss Aldon Hewitt authority on Indian customs. H Wallace Caldwell 45 Chicago official. Joseph H. Moran 61 Moran Towing leader. Augustus E. Staley Jr. 73 founder of A E Staley. George R. Grant 58 New England Telegraph general attorney. Mrs Sumner Simpson 62 wife of Raybestos president. Locations include New York Oakland Chicago Battle Creek Miami Wellesley Bridgeport Manhattan and Bridgeport. Dates shown as Dec. 28 with various year references.
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