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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1943
Page
7
Various obituary notices from Syracuse dated June 15 to 19 1943 announce funeral arrangements for J Herbert Austin Lavina Chase George H Crego and more. Details include birth and death dates addresses funeral chapels officiating ministers interment sites and arrangements by local funeral homes. Frequent names include Joseph T Glanville Gates Funeral Home Meech Fairchild & Drive Martin Funeral Home Rathbun and Surdex.
William Amos Papworth 81 former Seventh Ward alderman died Thursday at his West Genesee Street home. Funeral 4 PM Saturday at West Genesee Methodist Church with burial Myrtle Hill. Survived by sons Walter and Edwin, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. wife Grace E Willey died 1931.
Obituaries list several local deaths with service details. Mrs Jose phine Kelly Tanner dies. services set at West Genesee Methodist Church. Jessie M Stiles of East Fayette Street to be buried after services at Carl Ballweg funeral home. Miss Barbara Geist former Syracusan dies in Brooklyn with Snyder funeral home handling rites. Frank A Cook of East Syracuse obituary notes survivor Mrs Beechner and family. Estella Gates last rites at Watson Hilton funeral home with burial at Sandy Creek. John O'Brien of Liveross passed away with services at G H Maurer funeral home. Thomas E Ryan funeral plans include Saint Michael's Church burial at St Agnes.
Last rites for Frederick W. Harvey were held at Welter funeral home with burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Edna Fancher Maurer, Syracusan native, died in Schenectady. funeral at 229 Mildred Avenue. John Howard McLaren, 71, dies. services at Schumacher funeral home and Albany Rural Cemetery burial in Watervliet. Survives include sister Mrs. Budges.
Last rites for Harley E. Strail were conducted at 1 Pm at the home by Rev Dr Frederick C Eller Tanan. Bearers were Vincent Stack William Wilkie Michael Kingslay Edward Gyatt and the Strail family. Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. Last rites for Mathew Lawler 68 who died Thursday at his home AS East Willow Street will be conducted at 915 Am Saturday at Thompson Leonard funeral home and at 10 Am in Saint Michaels Church with burial in St Agnes Cemetery. A retired glazier he worked 30 years for Wood Glass Company. Surviving are three nephews Edward and Frank Lawlor of Detroit MI and Walter S Lawler of Syracuse and a niece Mrs George Master of Syracuse. Funeral services for Nellie Bach of 205 Oswego Street who died Tuesday were at 830 Am Friday at home and 9 Am at Sacred Heart Church burial in Sacred Heart Cemetery Bearers were William Jurecki Michael Naster Edward Kaleta John Walieczak Edward Kowalski and Stanley Kaleta. Last rites for Mrs Catherine Willis who died Tuesday were at 930 Am Friday at home 115 West Avenue East Syracuse and at 930 Am in Saint John the Evangelist Church with Rev James Nicholson assisted by Rev Raymond J Loftus and Rev William J Christian. Bearers were Aviation Cadet James Dwinelle Donald Dwinelle James Ras Francis McLoughlin Patrick Shanahan and Walter Kennedy. Burial in St Agnes Cemetery.
Max Amdur of 2050 East Gen tsee Street died Friday at University Hospital after a brief illness. He ran a jewelry store at 214 West Fayette Street for 35 years and owned several racing horses. He kept horses at State Fair Grounds for years and belonged to Temple Adah Yeshurun. Funeral plans set with Birnbaum parlors. Burial at Buffalo cemetery.
Staff Sgt. William E. Playford 21 died in an aircraft accident Thursday at the Rapid City Army Air Base South Dakota. A Syracuse native and North Side resident, he attended St John’s Academy and North High School class of 1939, worked for Crouse Hinds, and served at Kissler Field Seattle Las Vegas Blythe and Rapid City. Surviving are his parents and sister Mrs. Mary E Spade. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lavina B Chase of 342 Genesee Park Drive will be held Saturday at 3 PM at the Fairchild Meech funeral chapel in Syracuse. The singer known in local musical circles was a member of University Methodist Church choir and sang with the Syracuse University Chorus. Born November 29, 1882 in Lynn Massachusetts, she lived in Boston before moving to New York. Surviving are three daughters Mary Elizabeth Lavina and Nancy Chase, her father George A Bunton of South Portland Maine and brother William E Bunton of Arlington Massachusetts.
Funeral for William S. McMahon 73, former city assessor, was held from his Whittier Avenue home and Saint Patrick's Church. Rev. Edgar Holihan led the service with Rev. Patrick J. Hartnett assisting. bearers were Canoush, Ferris, Loftus, Kinney, Whitford, and Dollard. Burial followed at St. Agnes Cemetery.
J Herbert Austin 84 of 4091 South Crouse Avenue died Wednesday. Rites set for 2 PM Saturday at Burroughs Memorial Chapel Lakeview Cemetery Skaneateles. Rev John B Dobson Jr officiating with burial at Lakeview. Native of Skaneateles a gardener and Syracuse resident 25 years he also posed as a model for College of Fine Arts Syracuse University. Surviving half sister Mrs Henry T Tucker of Chevy Chase Md.
Death notices list A Wilcox 68 Circle Wiliam Moran 60 Watertown D Marshal Crawford 72 Alexandria G Evans Utica Goorse Sanies 43 Utica and others. Birth records show multiple newborns to couples in Panther Lake Reed Avenue Granter Road Beacos Street and nearby towns with dates in June and June 13 to June 35 across several families.
Delayed dispatch recalls one way attack led by Col Yasuyo Yamasaki on Attu May 29. Japanese wounded were shot by medical officers and troops amid ferocious fighting. Allied forces noted scarce Japanese survivors, uncertain fate of Yamasaki and Lt Col Kogero goregawa, with civilians pressed to fight and a stranded captive civilian seeking pants.
Mrs. Vesta Westover Channon, 76, long linked with women’s clubs and education in the United States and Europe, born in Wisconsin. Reginald Bathurst Birch, Sr, 65, artist famed for Little Lord Fauntleroy illustrations, later in poverty in New York. Lt. Col. Nicholas W. Muller, 66, executive director of the State Insurance Fund since 1914, born in Lorraine France and arrived in 1893, fought in the Spanish American War.
The War Production Board faces a five percent cut in newsprint use by American papers starting July 1. An 50 day inventory limit is proposed for smaller papers, with scale exemptions for papers under 235 tons and regions with larger inventories. The plan aims to align consumption with prior goals amid Canada’s promised supplies and past underperforming reductions.
Albany June 18. Buchalter and two alleged Murder Inc members Emmanuel Weiss and Louis Capone will be brought July 20 before New York's Court of Appeals for resentencing in the Brooklyn storekeeper murder case. Chief Judge Irving Lehman announced the action after the court refused rearguments, the first capital-case personal appearance before the high court in nearly 30 years.
John Saya aged 34 of Syracuse New York received a suspended four month jail term after arraignment in Greenwich Police Court on breaking and entering a liquor store. Companion Joseph Bushneck also 34 of Syracuse was fined for breach of peace. Saya claimed drunkenness and said he thought he was entering his own home when the break in occurred.
Secretary Ickes proposes using wild game to bolster national food supplies by 1947. He envisions muskrat raccoon and opossum as annual staples, while fish and poultry would form the broader diet plan amid manpower and material limits.
A Danish broadcast reported 100 Norwegians were arrested in Oslo during a Nazi search for conscription evaders. The broadcasts cited occupation authorities carrying out the sweep.
Moscow signals broader relations as Latin missions rise to embassies in Moscow and Mexico City. Quintanella becomes first Latin American ambassador to Russia since the revolution, with Concheso arriving in May and Herrera-Arango in charge in Kuibyshev. Possible further Latin moves noted as postwar trade and reconstruction shape policy.
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