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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1941
Page
6
Several obituaries and funeral notices from Utica area papers list deaths of Minnie Gula, Nellie Cady Jones, Alfred Paice, and others. Entries note survivors, service times, locations such as Dana W. Bar 02 Danforth Street and Memorial Park Cemetery, with related family relations and burial plans.
John Lamanna Funeral Designs at 1018 Warren St offers floral designs with telephone orders. Rist Flowers by Wire lists contact number 2-5251. Artistic Funeral Designs promotes low priced family orders and Al Markowitz Florist at 212 E Payette with TD8 membership and phone 2-0396.
Obituaries list multiple local residents including Loomis Hutchinson of Syracuse and George Cook of East Syracuse who died in Florida and at Bath Veterans Hospital. The notices note prior employments at GM plants, church affiliations, military service, and surviving family members with funeral details and burial plans. Additional deaths include Mrs. Mary Benedick, Alfred Price, Anthony Teska, Reuben Bake man, Benjamin Brenneman, and Mrs. Mary Phelps with service times and burial locations.
Funeral services for John J. Conley a retired stone contractor who died Monday at his Lafayette Road home after a brief illness will be held Friday at 9 80 in St James Church Soho AM. Burial will be in St Marys Cemetery Conley a native of Onondaga Valley had lived in Lafayette Road 60 years Surviving are two sons four daughters a sister and many grandchildren and a great grandchild
A funeral was held Thursday with a service at 2 PM Monday at the home of her son Ralph A Phelps 180 East Matson Avenue conducted by Rev Jean Richardson pastor of Erwin Seahecue Church. Burial followed in Oakwood Cemetery with bearers Andrew Burke William Lent Lyman Buck William Parker El dred Gould and Fred Wickert.
Raymond G. Thorpe, a Syracuse University graduate of 1915 and former Syracuse resident, died at 48. The real estate professional, active in Miami for seven years, was survived by his wife Mrs Michel Thorpe a daughter Miss Beatrice Thorpe and his mother Mrs Jessie Thorpe.
A series of obituaries notes the deaths of notable figures across the United States. George By ron Foster, 88, Boston treasurer of the Boston and Albusa ornamental fund since 1929. Abe Goldberg, 74, Texas founder of the Texas Society for Crippled Children and honored in Port Arthur in 1936. Henry Ax tell Rumsey, 70, Chicago grain broker, ex vice president of the Chicago Board of Trade and former Lake Forest mayor. Oscar R. Cauchois, 86, director of the French Line, WWI munition honors. Charles H. Chandler, 59, US Shipping Board member in WWI. Commander Howard Emery, 85, Coast Guard veteran, noted for Arctic and Great Lakes service and lighthouse inspection work.
Death notices list Mrs. Charles Fetterly 69 Old Forge and several others including Joseph S. Jeffrey 77 Frontenac Walter McCluskey Oneonta and Mrs Elizabeth Dunn 88 Morristown Center. Marriage licenses show Herbert Stolusky and Antoinette Rosenbere Francis Merrill and Frederick Munz and Anne Nemee among multiple couples.
Funeral services for Joseph Mancini 65 a native of Italy and longtime Syracuse resident will be held Wednesday. Mass at 9:30 a.m. at Saint Peter's Church followed by burial in Assumption Cemetery. Mancini survived by wife Angeline, son Gaetano, daughters Mrs. Marco Pisegna and Anita, brothers Dominick and Theodore, and two sisters in Italy.
New York reports artist Louis Michel Eilshemius died at Bellevue Hospital from pneumonia. Recognized internationally only late, he claimed the world ignored him while producing about 5,000 paintings and extensive writings. Born in Arlington New Jersey to Dutch parents, he forged a flamboyant artistic persona.
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation announces Buffalo becomes a full district office with William G. Crook as sales manager and David F. Austin in charge of sales. The new district covers Western New York including Utica Syracuse Binghamton Elmira Rochester Jamestown and parts of Northern Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Gertrude Sisson aged 70 died of a heart attack while dusting a hallway floor with a mop in her third floor apartment at 102 Madison Street. She was found by neighbors shortly after 11 PM and pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital. Coroner H. Ernest Galt ordered the body to the county morgue pending funeral plans.
A group of 15 leading U S food manufacturers formed the Nutrition Foundation with 31 million in backing and Dr. Karl T Compton of MIT named president This first cooperative scientific research lab aims to improve processing preserving and educating on nutritious foods for civilians armed forces and allies. Courses in nutrition start January 7 in Syracuse under Red Cross direction with Miss Katherine Olm Stead teaching at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Dec 30 Auburn widow Mrs. Margaret McGrath, 80, died at Mercy Hospital after severe burns from her clothing catching on a two plate electric grill used as a heater. Her daughter-in-law, tearing burning clothes away, suffered minor burns. The incident occurred at 4 Seminary Street. police report she was seated when the garment hem touched the grill.
Mrs. Julia Young of 1254 South State Street says a youth of about 17 attempted to grab her purse at 11 AM in her doorway. She knocked him down the steps during the struggle and he fled. detectives investigated the incident.
The Public Service Commission hearing on the Con an New York Power Corporation gas rate appeal was continued at the Court House. Corporation Counsel James C. Tormey opposed any increase citing lack of city facilities and funds for experts. Mentioned is a proposed 165 000 rate rise equaling 16 percent of 1940 cross sales. 2 830 000 gross sales that year. Witness John T. Kimball stated 43 percent of 645 000 bills went to customers using under 10|2 therms monthly. Attys Earl J. Kimball Lauman Martin for the power company and John J. Ryan for the PSC appeared. George H. Bond spoke for Onondaga Pottery and Pass & Seymour opposing the rise. Bond warned mixed gas would raise tel plys by 70 000 annually, hindering competition with Pennsylvania pottery firms. Commissioner Neal Brewster presided. Birth notices follow with numerous local names and dates.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is to relieve Vice Admiral William H. Pye as commander of the U S Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in a wartime ceremony. Hawaii civil defense seeks funds and new agency roles as territorial guards shift to Army control and air raid systems are planned for Oahu Maui and Kauai with new alarm designs.
Mrs Helen Shaffer is named co chairwoman of the soldier entertainment committee along with Chester D Fuller The group will plan programs for soldiers in Army camps to avoid transporting men to Syracuse for events Shaffer has radio and drama experience and will audition volunteers for entertainment and recreation work
Members of the Creative Craft Club at North High School will hold an exhibition on Jan. 8 under the direction of Robert Grego. The show will feature handicraft posters wood work poetry scrap desks drawing water colors map making and other forms of creative expression.
War Department approves a plan to enroll women as privates and officers in a uniformed women’s auxiliary corps serving with the Army in aircraft warning and non combatant posts. Pay set at $21 monthly for privates. officers based on merit and Army pay standards. Units to be stationed at major posts with barracks and military discipline.
The Rotary Club defense coordination chair Leo M. Sandefur urges members to donate books from their libraries for the national defense book campaign opening January 1. The drive is sponsored by the American Library Association American Red Cross and United Service Organizations with Frieda F. Gates chairing the Syracuse effort. Books can be left at the Syracuse Public Library or branches. Syracuse quota 20 000 volumes.
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