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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1942
Page
6
Multiple notices list deaths on June 22 to 33 1942. George E Blume Julia Murphy Burke Nellie Fox Fred Jarvis Joseph Harrison Leonard Ara Blumer Theresa McNerney Lyllyan Grace Blumer Smith are named with survivors and burial details. Funeral arrangements, church and cemetery sites listed.
In memory of Ramonde Welch and Helen Klein with unveiling planned at Woodlawn Cemetery. Funeral homes listed include Eaton Fayetteville, Gang & Son Salina, Hollon St Fayetteville, Frasier Salina, Welter James St, Traugott Lohman Frasier, and Lohman Garden Plan Cemetery. Florists Lamania Patterson Markowitz Lynch Weaver Flowers displayed with contact details.
Vivian Viola Minker of Syracuse died after four years battling myasthenia gravis and a second illness lobar pneumonia. She had undergone a pioneering thymus gland removal in January, the first such operation in Syracuse, to combat her primary disease.
In January Vivian Gyatt showed steady improvement after a thymus removal operation, one of only about a dozen such procedures in the U S. The surgery, described by a Baltimore physician breakthrough, inspired another Syracuse woman to seek the treatment. Vivian, a former Eastwood resident, is survived by her parents, three sisters, a brother in the U S Army, and a grandfather. Last rites are set at Welter Funeral Home and Elmwood Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Syracuse confectionery store proprietor Mrs. Clara L. McCann died at her home 702 Oswego Street after a six month illness. She was the widow of Herbert A. McCann and a life long Syracuse resident. Surviving are her mother Mary Blumer, three brothers, four sisters, and several nephews and nieces. Requiem mass to be held at St. Lucy's Church with burial at St. Agnes Cemetery.
Mrs. Julia Murphy Burke 202 Highland Avenue wife of James W. Burke died Wednesday in St Josephs Hospital after a long illness. She was daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Thomas Murphy and native of Syracuse. Survived by husband four brothers Bernard F Murphy and two sisters Mrs Charles J Mooney of Darlington SC and Mrs John S Axtell. Funeral at 6 45 PM Friday John B Murphy Funeral Home 308 Court Street and 9 30 AM at St John the Evangelist Church burial in St Agnes Cemetery.
Obituary notices list Lestier Daniel Brown 272 Cortlan Bertha Howe Chalmer 62 Dekuy ter Mrs Francis Duford 57 Clayton O Hara Auburn Paul Jacoby 62 Seneca Falls Eva C Spaulding Canton Dr Thomas K Means Geneva Luella J Crandall Homer Harper L Mack Auburn Bertha H Chalmer 63 DeRuy er Amanda M Bankes 87 Phoenix. Also announcements for monuments Arthur Judd 703 Oakwood and Monument Co listings with addresses and phone numbers.
Funeral details for Martha Werpachowski Louise Lynch and Harry Whitbread list home and church services. Revs Casimer Pierda Robert Hall and James Meegan officiated with multiple bearers named. burials at Sacred Heart St Marys and St Agnes Cemeteries.
The funeral for Francis C Lowther was held at 9 A M Wednesday at his home 118 Coleridge Avenue and Saint Brigid's Church with a solemn high mass of requiem celebrated by Rev William Brennan assisted by deacon Rev John Alfred and subdeacon Rev William McCabe. Bearers were William Gulgert Fred Deck Lawrence Walsh John O'Hara Martin Ryan and William Collins. Burial followed at St Agnes Cemetery.
Mrs Lyllyan Grace Smith a former Syracusan died Saturday at her Merritt Island Florida home Funeral services set for 11 A M Thursday at Fairchild Meech chapel officiated by Rev J M Van Titburgh with burial in Oakwood Cemetery.
The funeral for Virgil P Wart was held at 2 30 P M Tuesday at his home 6606 South Salina Street. The service was conducted by Rev Dr Calvin Thompson with bearers Elena Bishop Ashley Shirby Francis Myers Bernard Bixby Russell Bixby and Wheeler Bowles. Burial followed in Onondaga Valley Cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs Louise Charlotte Timm were held at Welter Funeral Home at 2 PM Wednesday. Rev F C Ellerman officiated. Bearers included Willis Michelson Fred Otto David Otto Harold Pickard Patrick Carrig and Robert Ferguson. Burial followed at Woodlawn Cemetery.
The funeral for Joseph O Spring er of Cold Springs Road Salina was held at 2 30 P M Wednesday at I L Tucker Son funeral home Liverpool conducted by Rev Carl C Swift of Liverpool Methodist Church. Bearers were Howard School Glen Hiscrodt Roy Trim ble Howard Burdick Clifford Woolever and Edward H Ten Eyck. Burial was in Morningside Cemetery.
Funeral services were held Monday at Cole funeral rooms James Town for Owen A Williams 32 Alexander Street Gloversville father of Clarence Williams of Syracuse. Williams died Friday in Central Nursing Home Gloversville. Surviving are wife Grace Williams Gloversville son Clifton Williams Fayette Ida sister Alice Jones Herkimer brother Benjamin D Williams Johnstown stepdaughter Mrs Clarence Conrick Gloversville and several grandchildren Burial was in Herkimer Cemetery.
A carnival snake charmer died and another was critically ill after rattlesnakes bit them in Camden New Jersey. Police said the snakes were believed venom had been removed. Victims were Lewis C. Ringer 42 of Glens Falls New York and John Meyers 70 of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Their employer Virginia Greater Shows of Suffolk Virginia received the snakes from Florida a day earlier.
Mrs. Anne M. Hurst 87 died Wednesday. Last rites set for 2 P M Friday at 4500 South Salina Street home. Minister Rev Franklin Bennett of St Pauls Episcopal Church to conduct. She long resided in Syracuse and belonged to St Pauls. Survived by daughter Alma E Hurst sister Mrs W H Horton and several nieces grandnieces and grandnephews. Burial in Oak.
Michael Porcaro of 647 North Clinton Street died Tuesday night at his home. A native of Italy, he had lived in Syracuse 42 years. Survived by two sons Joseph and Thomas, two daughters Mrs Nicolas Laury and Mrs Joseph Sansone, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral 9:30 AM Friday at Joseph Farone & Son Funeral Home and 10:30 AM at Our Lady of Pompeii Church. Burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Dr Carl Sumner Knopf 52 president Willamette University Salem Ore dies June 24. Hulda C Peterson 69 dies yesterday three minutes after great grandson was born in Jamesville General Hospital Brentwood L I June 24. Anne Sutherland 85 actress retired 1940 after nearly 60 years stage career Pilgrim State Hospital native of Washington DC dies after long illness.
Albert B. Wright longtime Buffalo civic leader and parade marshal is noted in Buffalo memorial pieces. Thomas J. O Neill aged 68 longtime newspaper veteran from Ireland who worked in Philadelphia Birmingham Austin and New York papers is remembered in New York dispatch.
Syracuse police seek relatives for a man tentatively identified as Peter Joslen 53 killed in a Sunday automobile crash in the Town of Warren Herkimer County State police at fee berate say victim had a sister in Syracuse but name and address not known Also lists numerous birth notices and marriage licenses in the same notice segment.
Buenos Aires weighs how to handle naval freedom amid German pressure. Argentina could accept special German protection, bow to a paper blockade, or insist on freedom of the seas under international law. The issue echoes past wars and risks domestic backlash as the United States faces wartime shipping tasks.
The YMCA adopted a more liberal constitution at its quarterly dinner meeting. Future members need not belong to an evangelical church if they subscribe to a Christ-focused faith statement. Board activity lowered to 90 percent, and denominational limits set to 50 percent with a single denomination capped at 30 percent. Levi S. Chapman, honored guest and former Syracuse YMCA president, was praised for reviving the organization. A portrait of Chapman by Lee S. Trimm was unveiled.
William Jones 35 told police he was homeless and chose to defend himself in Police Court. He was found guilty of third degree assault and sentenced by Judge Homer V. Walsi to six months in Jamesville Penitentiary with an extra 30 days for a public intoxication plea. The incidents began June 15 in the 900 block of East Washington Street when jailed for intoxication, bailed out, then rearrested on the assault claim by Landis Price 33 of Dryden for an alleged restaurant assault at 704 South Townsend Street.
Special Cable from Australia argues U S actions sparked Balkan war alignments with Bulgaria Hungary and Romania weaving a response to Axis diplomacy. It critiques American diplomacy as timid and insufficient funding for aggressive edge and notes secret pacts and border clashes as leverage for anti Nazism.
City Engineer Nelson C. Pitts announced the removal of abandoned trolley rails on Milton Avenue will finish by week’s end. Paving on South Wilbur Avenue is complete and Milton Avenue work begins, with rails removed in sections and subsequent paving leading to Gifford and Marcelus Streets. About 1,130 tons of salvaged iron have been recovered for defense use.
The trial of Mrs. Mary E. Evans, treasurer of the Split Rock Gulf Water District, moves toward a jury after attorney Paul R. Shanahan argues character witnesses create reasonable doubt. The 61 count indictment was pared to 21 miscounted record charges and one destruction charge as proceedings proceed. Assistant District Attorney William H. Bowers summarized the case and Judge Frank P. Malpass prepared final instructions.
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