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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
10
Multiple obituaries and memorial notices from Solvay and Syracuse dated June 15 to June 18 1942. Names include Grace B Benjamin Thomas Cooney Celestia M Graham Susan C Morgan Oney Sayles John ER Sherlock Ida Warner Smith Alva R Steele Ralph D Troup Mary Elizabeth M White and others with survivors funeral details and burial locations.
A dense list of local funeral homes and florists with addresses and phone numbers. Includes Keegan & Osbelt, C Carroll & Co, Snyder Funeral Co, John Gang & Son, ethel hollon, Miller & Waidele Panera? ome, John J Molloy, Wilber W Newell, Traugott Lohman Frasier, George Lohman, Richard M Garfield, John Giminske, Cody & James, M J McAuliffe, Kempf Funeral Parlors, Jack Fraster, Wyelder Funeral Home, David F Kearney, Thompson & Leonard, Billcrest Memorial Park, Jon Laman na Florist, Floral designs by Lynch, Rose Floral Designs, Weaver's Florist, Arthur Judd, Arl Lutz Monument Co, and more.
Arthur Pryor 71 a noted bandmaster and composer died at his West Long Branch New Jersey home after a stroke two days earlier He direct nightly concerts on the Asbury Park board walk and rose to fame with John Philip Sousa He founded his own band composed 250 marches and is known for The Whistler and His Dog and Queen Titania Survivors include widow Maud Russell Pryor and sons Arthur Jr and Roger Pryor a motion picture actor plus brother Samuel Pryor.
Mrs. Catherine Barnello, 56, of 305 Herald Place, died at home Wednesday night from a heart ailment. A native of Italy, she lived in Syracuse 10 years. Survived by husband Carlo, three daughters, a granddaughter, a sister in Italy. Funeral at 9 A.M. Saturday from the family home and 9:45 A.M. at Saint Peter's Church. Burial in St. Agnes Cemetery.
Final rites for Mrs. Nellie Kieffer Houck of 1005 Tallman Street, longtime Catholic volunteer, were held Thursday. Services began at 8:30 A.M. at John Gang & Son chapel and continued at 9 A.M. at Assumption Church with Rev. Roger Nelipowitz. Bearers included Victor Sears, William O’Conner, Theobald Kieffer, Paul Liberati, and George Simms. Father Roger conducted the rites at St. Agnes Cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs. Alva R. Steele will be held Saturday at 2 PM at Fairchild & Meech funeral home with Rev. William Montgomery officiating. Burial follows at Oakwood Cemetery. She died Wednesday at her son Lionel J. Steele’s home on Wayland Road. she is survived by a grandson Roger J. Scale and several nieces and nephews.
Maj T Semmes Walmsley former mayor of New Orleans and construction and supply lead at Randolph Field dies. Leigh Hadley Irvine newspaper man and author passes away in San Francisco. William Edwin Nichols 80 former mining engineer and insurance executive dies in Palo Alto. Charles Alpheus Bennett 78 head of Bradley Polytechnic Institute manual arts dies in Peoria. Roy K Flannagan 71 longtime Virginia public health leader dies in Richmond.
Robert R. Mill, longtime News and Magazine writer, dies at Saranac Lake after a long tuberculosis battle. He worked for the Syracuse Herald and Herald-Journal, covered Auburn prison riot and aviation feats, wrote from South America and Haiti, and served with the Conservation Commission in recent years.
Rites for Helen Campbell 84 of 233 West Castle Street were held at Welter funeral home with burial in South Butler. Fred C. Koegel 49 had high mass of requiem at the Cathedral of Tremannintan Conception. Lena Caruso 25 died in New York City. services at Joseph Pirro & Sons and Saint Peter's Church. Margaret S Speich 54 of 201 Homer Avenue obituary with services to be announced. Thomas E Cooney 31 of 401 Grant Avenue died at Onondaga County Sanitarium. burial at Marcellus. Antonio Monti Tyrol native Solvay. services at Ragozzi Twins and Saint Cecilia's. Oney Sayles 45 WW veteran. services at Bridgeport Methodist Church. John A Weber 50 of 50932 North Townsend Street. services at Dana W Barnard funeral home. Burial at Woodlawn Cemetery.
Munich reports Maj Gen Adolf Huehnlein aged 60 head of the Nazi Motor Corps died after a long illness. A World War I major, he was appointed motor transport chief for the Reich in February 1940.
Funeral services for Henry Sumner Whitney aged 73, former county clerk from 1913 to 1919 and ex postmaster of Manlius, were held at 4 p.m. at his Highbridge Road home in Manlius. The Rev. Arthur E. Morey officiated, with Manlius Lodge 93 F and A M conducting grave rites at Manlius Cemetery. Bearers were Fred Barnum, Willis Farnham, Jay Brown, Stanley Bundy, Dr. Harry Turner and Grant Rhodes.
Miss Julia A. Ryan supervisor of the Seventh Ward has learned of the death of her cousin James Griffin of Grand Forks North Dakota. He was a son of Mr and Mrs John Griffin early West End settlers.
Funeral services for George Froboese Milwaukee leader of the German American Volksbund will be held here Friday. The body will be cremated. Froboese was killed by a train Monday at Waterloo Ind a coroner ruled it suicide. He was 42 and supreme head of the Volksbund in the United States succeeding G Wilhelm Kunze who disappeared last December.
The funeral of William J. Gee who died Saturday at the county sanatorium was held at 2 PM Wednesday at the Fairchild & Meech funeral home with the Rev. Thomas Kirkwood officiating. Gee, a city of Syracuse employee for 25 years, had lived in Saratoga Springs for the last two years. Pallbearers, all members of Syracuse Post 41 American Legion, included John Sellin Albert Shelly Theodore Wood Stewart Boysen Ambrose Amidon and Herbert Fish. Taps were sounded at the graveside in Oakwood Cemetery.
Miss Julia A. Bolton aged 67 and lifelong Morristown resident died at A. Barton Hepburn Hospital after illnesses since May 27 1942. She worked for 45 years at the Comston Company. Funeral services are set for tomorrow at 2 P.M. at Christ Episcopal Church Morristown with Rev. Charles E. Kennedy officiating. Burial follows in Pine Hill Cemetery Morristown.
A community notice lists numerous births with parents and birth dates across Syracuse and surrounding areas, including Guth, Hermann, Kaulback, Monticello, ONeill, Valentino, Haahr, Hutt, Kittell, Dombroske, Ulrich, Klase, Past, Lemm, Krohl, Selbihed, Martineau, Oster, Plopper, Sindoni, Bates, Andrews, Barton, Ariola, Poole, Schapira, and others. It also records marriage licenses for Elliott, Beebe, Lynn, Woods, Laring, Herzberger, Rothman, Squadrite, Sheinkopf, Levinson, Friel, Kieshelm, Cook, Blauvelt, Hennessey, Coombs.
Mrs Ida Warner Smith of 264 Leon Street died Wednesday after a weeks long illness. Survived by four sons Albert Edward Howard Smith Syracuse Herbert Smith Racine Wis. two daughters Mrs Edward O Brien and Mrs Earl Baum. 15 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral at Carl J Ballweg 4612 South Salina Street Saturday at 2 PM conducted by Rev H H Downey Furman Methodist Church. Burial in Onondaga Valley Cemetery.
John E. Sherlock 54 formerly of 228 Merriman Avenue died Monday at Inlet. Funeral services set for 9 A.M. Saturday at C. C. Carroll & Company funeral home Solvay and 9:30 A.M. at Saint Lucy's Church. Burial in St Agnes Cemetery. Survived by daughter Catherine Sherlock brother Rose Sherlock and sister Mrs J W Saunders plus several nieces and nephews.
Miss Lella May Dann 35 Watertown Mrs Elzabeth Bickelhaupt Haas 76 Belwood Luke O Toole 75 Herkimer Bronslaw Zimononowski New Hartford Miss Frances X Kramer 52 Utica William Richie 69 Interlaken Miss Julia Bolton 67 Morristown Mrs Anna McDonald Oxndensburg Mrs Catherine Fox Ocdenesbure Mary Mahady 68 Auburn James McGovern 73 Seneca Falls Herman L Stevens 6 Rome Fred T Hatch 65 Auburn
Nearly all recruits at the Syracuse induction center opt for two weeks of furlough at home before heading to the reception center to begin Army life. Four of every five accepted since Monday chose the home furlough, with Syracuse and Auburn men predominating among today's inductees.
Yesterday the Department of Parks listed residents including Vincent Howard Reichert at 149 North Cinwarenwood Avenue and Edmund Zelasko at 104 Marconi Avenue along with Edward Carroll 100 Fitch Street and Gerald Murphy 456 Whittier Avenue. Other names span Andrew Dublin 356 Midlands Avenue and Joseph Rudy 151 Nelson Street with Leroy Feilder R D 3 Syracuse and Norman Lelshman 802 South Street.
Massena, June 18. Funeral services for Mrs. Emery Southwich of Burney Avenue will be held tomorrow morning at Sacre Heart Church at 10 o'clock. A prayer service takes place at 9:30 at the home. Burial follows at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Brashe Falls. Mrs. Southwick died Tuesday while traveling with her two daughters toward Canton in an automobile.
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