Watervliet Elks Elect Schanz Exalted Ruler
Martin J. Schanz was elected exalted ruler of the Watervliet Lodge of Elks at a regular meeting. He succeeds Martin Walsh who resigned while serving as an airplane inspector with Lockheed. The installation was led by George J. Halpin who spoke on members serving the country. Plans for a New Year party and a Christmas fund for city children's organizations were announced. The entertainment committee will be named later this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin J. Schanz
Watervliet
Chas
Guilderland
Garry Fuller
George Craig
Westmere
Fuller
New York Central
Education Board
Watervliet Education Board
Teachers’ Association
Ethel Joy
Benjamin Comstock
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Sharch Rooms
Raymond Smith
Charles A. Dayton
First Presbyterian Church
Squires
The
Columbian Squires
Knights of Columbus
K. of
James McConkey
John Rizzo
Mr. McConkey
James McCallen
Watervliet Knights Plan Holiday Event and Local Improve
Edward Theroux was named chairman of the Watervliet Knights of Columbus annual New Year’s Eve dance and an open house for New Year’s Day plans were announced. Re paving on Tenth Street is complete and Fifth Avenue repaving postponed until spring. The Arsenal area traffic and parking changes were outlined along with official duties for AOH Auxiliary officers and ZNP officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Theroux
Watervliet
Knights of Columbus
Theroux
John I Carroll
Tenth Street
Fifth Avenue
Arsenal Grounds
Fitzgerald Brothers Construction Co., Inc
Troy
Sormer
Arsenal
Watervliet Soldier Missed in Action Over France
Staff Sergeant James W. O Keefe son of Mr and Mrs James J O Keefe of 2307 Eighth Street Watervliet reported missing somewhere over France in a War Department telegram. He recently received the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster for missions as a waist gunner on the bomber Mary Pat over German occupied Europe. Telegram dated Dec 5 notes his missing status. award news arrived Dec 2 via The Record Newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W
Red) O'Keefe
James J. O'Keefe
Eighth Street
Watervliet
France
War Department
O'Keefe
Europe
Obituary Notices From City Funeral Homes and Churches
A long list of funeral services and religious events is reported. Obituaries include Mrs Annie M Gleason, Mrs Margaret L Geary, Miss Agnes C Dundon, and Michael F Conroy with service details at St Patrick's Church and local cemeteries. Other entries note services for William Foster Emma Grigg and various parish activities at Our Lady of Mt Carmel St Bridget’s Trinity Episcopal First Baptist and First Avenue Methodist churches with prayers, novenas, and Christmas events scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie M. Gleason
Cummings Third Avenue Funeral
St. Bridget's Church
Edmund F. Gibbons
Chancery
Albany
John J Bourke
James P. Hanrahan
Joseph Hervieuux
William E. Duncan
William Reisenleiter
John G. Strobel
Peter Jubic
William R. Mahar
John J. Sullivan
Fred Austin
St. Agnes’ Cemetery
Menands
Father Hanrahan
William J. Maloney
Sixth Avenue
Anna E. O’connell Maloney
Watervliet
St. Patrick's Parish
St. Patrick’s Church
Holy Name Society of the Church
Ancient Order of the Hibernians
Water Department
City of Watervliet
Fred van Campden
Helen
Virginia
Maureen Maloney
Waterv
Margaret L. Geary
Catherine Geary
Seventh Avenue
St. Patrick's Church
Thomas J. Curley
Agnes C. Dundon
St. Patrick Cemetery
J. Allen Keegan
Thomas Walsh
Michael
William McGlynn
William Foster
Parker Brothers Memorial
Broadway
S T. Patrick's Church
Forest Park Cemetery
Emma Grigg
Clarence W. Jones
Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel McCabe
Henry
Father Carey
St. Patrick's Cemetery
St. Anthony of Padua
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
St. Bridget'’s Church
Theodore Haydn
Trinity Episcopal Church
Harry N. van Antwerp Wil
Beacon Lights Mission Chapel
First Baptist Church
Louis KE. Barker
Third Avenue
Flrst Avenue
Deaths and obituaries across several Troy area towns
Funeral services were held for Grace Taplin at her Green Island home with interment in New Mt. Ida Cemetery. Louis Bowers of Hoosick Falls, a Spanish-American War veteran, died in Albany. services set for Hoosick Falls. Belle Kana of Whitehall died at home. services at Our Lady of Angels Church. Multiple other obituaries follow for residents of Troy, Watervliet, Schuylerville, West Sand Lake and surrounding communities, detailing funerals, interments, and survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace
Mary Taplin
George Street
Green Island
Murray Nelson
Christian Science Reader
Charles Heglin
M. J. Scholten
John Emmert
George Milne
New Mt. Ida Cemetery
Troy
Louis Bowers
Hoosick Falls
Albany Memorial Hospital
Frederick Bowers
Albany
Bowers
D.D
The
Methodist Church
Maple Grove Cemetery
Belle Kana
Bellamy Street
Whitehall
Our Lady of Angels Church
Rosary Society
Fenton Kana, Jr
Frank Kana
James Clark
Salem
Napoleon LaPoint
Poultney
Wilbert Rivette
Julia Belden
William C. Oakes
Henry Oakes
Montcalm Avenue
Plattsburg
Westfield
Lionel Oakes
Hart St. Louis
Walter Chamberlain
Helen Oakes
Flatisburg
Zizmone Moczulewski
Columbus
Charles Oakes
Manchester
N. H
Joseph Oakes
Montgomery
Ala
Flora Seymore
Hattie Taghe
St. Peter’s Church
Martin E. Cunningham
Martin E Cunningham
New York Power and Light Corp
Saratoga Springs
Warren Street
Saratoga
Patrick Hinchey
Mechanicville
William Cunningham
Atlst. Clement's Church
St. Mary's Cemetery
Schuylersville
Susan Lape
J. EB. DeGraaf
West Sand Lake
Harry ©. Morehouse
the Reformed Church
Defreestville
Clarence Doudhlaugh
Fred Sager
George Fisher
Harold Teal
Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
Michael Glynn
Bessie F. Morrison
Bessie Frances Morrison
Round Lake
Samaritan Hospital
Nelson
Elizabeth Avey
Morrison
All Saints Episcopal Church
Cecil H. Morrison
Clark
Bruce Morrison
Grosse Pointe
Mich
Walter E. Fielding Haylor
All Saints Church
William J. Dean
Navy
Mni
U. S. Naval Hospital
San Diego
Cal
Fannie Hemp Dean
Harold Rim
January Draft Quotas to Rise in Troy Boards
January quotas for Selective Service in Troy are larger than last month though figures are not released. Fathers must be called by all three boards, now classified by order number under a new rule. Washington has not confirmed age based calling. Local boards prepare to meet January quotas as order numbers arrive. A solemn requiem mass from St Paul the Apostle's Church will be held, with interment in St Mary's Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael E. Glynn
Pinewoods Avenue
St. Joseph's Church
Edmund J. Burns
James E. O'Neil
Gerald F. Millett
Julia L. Walsh
St. Mary's Cemetery
Father Burns
Joseph F. Craver
Patrick J
Mahar
George E. Maloney
Peter Minko
Father Lawlor
Holy Name Society
Ellen Bulman
Fourteenth Street
Troy Hospital
Ireland
New York City
Troy
St. Paul the Apostle’s Church
Mary
Stephen Bulman
John J. Cain
John C. Claessens
George S. Hicks
Michael J. Deignan
George FB. McLoughlin & Sons
Sixth Avenue
Pearl Harbor
Selective Service Board
Washington
Hershey
St. Paul the Apostle's Church
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Also Mentioned on This Page
Watervliet Elks
Schanz
Wuward
Schuyler Park Welfare Association
John Hobbins
Harry Doust
Limerick
Optometrists
Opticians
River Street
Watervliet Knights ‘Plan
Hibernian Women
Martin J. Donovan, Jr
Fifteenth Street
John Adams
John Tulley
Owen Gilmurray
John Pembrick
Joseph Larmab
Lotta Hussey
Thomas Coughlin
Sentinel
ZN. P
Pulaski Hall
Board of Elections
Ignatius Czarcinski
John Klocek
John Lach
Frank Pazeniczny
Z. A. Sefcik
Michael Stefanowicz
John Trela
Wojciesk Stronski
Glamour Permanent
Merry Christmas
Watervliet City
Republican Committee
Obituary Furs
Mrs
Smith
Nellie J. Smith
Mason Chapel
E. Eugene Cunningham
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Ronaid Roe
U. S. Navy
Benjamin Roe
1508
Eighth Avenue
Lape
Vincent Pascale
Vincent Francis Pascale
Watervlet
Jersey City
N. J
Wat
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church
St. Patrick’s Cemetery
Pascale
Father McManus
John J. Mackrell
John J
William Connery
Christopher
J. H. Fee
Edward Moore
Raymond O'Brien
Mr. Lee
Raymond J. Lee
Michael F. English
Prof
W. Lee McCarthy
James A. Keefe
William J
Coleman J
Eugene H. Lyons
Charles F. Baumes
Paul ¥. Mannuie
St. Peter’s Cemetery
William E. Beebe
Cleveland Ackroyd
Brookside Avenue
New York State Lumberman’s Association
Albany Chamber of Commerce
Masonic Fraternity
Albany Rural Cemetery
Ephraim P. Felt
Margaret Hunter
East Schodack
Stamford
Bartlett Tree Research Laboratory
Buffalo
Hunter
Felt
G. E. Button
George E. Button
Second Avenue
Sete Ngc 38
Clifford J. Shea
Conn
Mollie Lambert
Fourth Street
Richard J. Shea
Ethel Scott
Francis Waters Crandall
Hazel McDonald
Hartford
Frank Waters
Thomas
John
James
Edward
Lawrence Copeland
Margaret H. Stanley
Margaret Hicks Stanley
Sampson Stanley
Shaker Road
Colonie
Howard M. Stanley
Gilbert Worton
Pittsfield
John O’shea
Holyoke
Mass
Alger Funeral Home
English
Lawrence C. English
Fourth Avenue
St. Augustine's Church
Arnold E. English
Hudson Falls
Eileen McGarry
Edward Hayes
James English
St. Peter's Cemetery
Father English
Max Brownstein
Corner State
Scranton
Quaker
Fambo Brenes
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