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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1944
Page
3
A fragment list of obituaries and funeral notices from a city paper. Names include Elizabeth Gilcher Listman James Leo Ryan Jacob Wozniak and Mary Lovell Page along with surviving relatives and burial arrangements at local cemeteries and churches. Services held across St Patrick's Ames Cemetery Sacred Heart and St Agnes.
Obituaries list Paul B. Boa age 65 Seneca Falls and Mrs Kittie Roedis Byam 77 Oneonta among others. The article covers infant Mary Minichillo burial at Joseph Farone and Son funeral home with service at 2 PM and burial in Assumption Cemetery. Additional notices name families and funeral homes across Syracuse area.
A batch of death notices from East Syracuse and nearby areas lists Lovel, Listman, Bronson, Plochko, and Page families. Details include birthplaces, survivors in various cities, funeral arrangements, and burial locations such as Woodlawn and St. Agnes Cemeteries.
Mrs Marie Huber who would have been 106 today died yesterday after influenza. She leaves a son aged 72 a 50 year old daughter living in Switzerland eight grandchildren twelve great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.
Funeral services for Fred I. Stockwell aged 71 who died suddenly of a heart attack at his home 23 Milwaukee Street will be held at 2 30 P M today at the Stockwell residence with Rev R R Crothers officiating. The body will be placed in the vault at Morningside Cemetery.
Very Rev Henry W Bell 59 rector of Christ Episcopal Clayton since 1936 died Thursday at Nobie Foundation Hospital Alexandria Bay after a stroke funeral Monday at 11 A M at Church of Christ with a requiem mass burial in Clayton Cemetery He is survived by his wife Mrs Sylvia DeGrasse Livingston Morton Bell and a son Ensign Philip S Bell U S Coast Guard stationed in New Orleans who arrived home last night.
War Department releases names of 330 United States soldiers missing in action across Asiatic Central Pacific European Mediterranean and Southwest Pacific theaters. Navy reports 51 casualties including 15 dead and 21 wounded with next of kin listed for Syracuse area families.
Pvt. Clifford Waite, husband of Mrs. Ida Cole White, a fifth and sixth grade teacher at Altmar Central School, died of spinal meningitis at Camp Upton. Funeral services are planned Sunday at 2 PM in Camden. Survived by his wife, Dorothy, a daughter, and his parents plus siblings.
Ithaca March 4 New York farmers were urged to keep large feed inventories and plant corn or other grain on every tillable acre in 1944. Prof L C Cunningham of the State College of Agriculture and economist for the Emergency Food Commission recommended the inventories and warned of possible shortages later due to high livestock numbers. Prof George Serviss of the agriculture college urged planting on every acre not needed for hay pasture silage or other human food crops to improve the feed situation for the coming fall and winter.
New York on March 4 44 reports Wayne Lonergar facing a second murder trial amid legal obstacles. Judge Freschi postponed jury matters after dismissing original talesmen and questioned attorney conduct. Lonergan remains in the Tombs with Patricia heir, while the district attorney weighs a new trial and possible appellate action.
The War Manpower Commission announces a centralized bureau to help veterans in employment and habilitation problems. It will be located at the U.S. Employment Service quarters, with trained interviewers and statewide cooperation to reduce duplication. A meeting in Syracuse will consider adoption of the plan, with Mayor Thomas E. Kennedy named to a veterans committee.
Great Britain’s most exclusive school Eton will admit United States soldiers on March 13 for a one week lecture course on political and social problems. Special courses for Americans have existed at Oxford and Cambridge, and Eton is among the first public schools to sponsor such a program.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Brophy 72 widow of Richard Brophy of 10 West Elizabeth Street Waterloo will be held Monday with a 3 30 a m service at home and a 9 a m service at St Marys Church Rev George T McCall to officiate burial in St Marys Cemetery She was a lifelong Waterloo resident and survived by a daughter Mrs Frank OConnor two sons Richard Brophy of Buffalo and Philip Brophy of Rochester and a sister Mrs Peter M Doran of Seneca Falls
Pvt George Philo and wife Donna Larsen of Newton Utah welcome a son named George Earl born February 15. The couple married December 16 1933 in Utah. Pvt Philo is the son of Mary Jk Philo of Fayetteville and an instructor in gunnery at the Army Air Base in Pyatt Texas.
The Great Lakes Transit Corp announces a very limited carload package freight service for this season with ports at Buffalo and Superior Wis. The service will carry flour shipments in carloads of a ton or more westbound.
Mrs. Sarah Carvel of 1557 South Salina Street told police her apartment was entered last night with a passkey and a pearl necklace and pearl earrings valued at $15 were taken. Patrolman John Miller investigated.
President Roosevelt backs a new pre draft training plan for 17 year olds and 16 year old graduates. The joint Army Navy exam is set for March 15 with eligibility July 1. Accepted youths will attend colleges in uniform with pay, pursuing pre medical mathematics and physics courses.
Charki E. Sorensen aged 62, Ford Motor Company vice president and production chief, resigns amid illness recovery at his Miami Beach home. The Danish-born executive, long a Henry Ford associate and advocate of mass production, had led Ford for four decades.
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