West Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY]: Percy William Benjamin, 68, of West Edmeston, died April 12 at his home following an illness of six months. Funeral services will be held in the First Baptist Church, West Edmeston at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Richard Wetherbee, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in West Edmeston Cemetery. Mr. Benjamin was born in Burlington Flats [Otsego Co., NY] April 20, 1890, a son of Park and Carrie (Firman) Benjamin. He married Bessie May Benedict February 11, 1914. Mr. Benjamin was a carpenter and contractor, and is given credit for the invention of the Benjamin Remote Control Cow Stanchion, and perfected a type of tailgate balance used on many farm trucks. He was also known for his work in construction of timber frame barns throughout the area. He was a member and deacon of the First Baptist Church of West Edmeston. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. David Welch, West Edmeston; Mrs. Helen Heap, Edmeston, and Mrs. Carroll Robinson, of Buffalo; four sons, Roderick, of Burlington Flats, Hubert, of West Exeter; Farron, of West Edmeston, and Russell, of Edmeston; three brothers, Murry, of Burlington Flats; Clean, of Morris; and Lynn, of San Bernadine, Calif.; 13 grandchildren, and 1 great grandchild. Friends may call at the family residence at their convenience. Arrangements by The Houk-Johnston Funeral Home, Edmeston.
Harry W. Benton, who died Monday night, June 6th, at Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], was born September 4th, 1867, in Buffalo, N.Y. The funeral was held on Thursday, June 9th, at 2 P.M., from his late home in Afton [Chenango Co., NY]. The Rev. Clifford E. Webb officiated. Burial was made in Glenwood Cemetery [Afton, Chenango Co., NY]. Pallbearers were Messrs. Whit McHugh, Raymond Allen, Bruce Keator, and Harold Medbury of Afton, J.D. Bodley of Harpursville, and Amos Tuckey of Bainbridge. Mr. Benton is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Hess, and a grandson, Dean Benedict of Elmira; and two brothers, Edward J. and Jesse L., of Afton. [MHD notation: d. June 1939]
Mrs. Harriett Bickel, widow of the late Joseph Bickel, died at her home near Tunnel [Broome Co., NY]Sunday afternoon aged 76 years. The funeral was held at the home Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock and the interment was in the New Ohio cemetery [Colesville, Broome Co., NY]. [MHD notation: d. 1907]
Joseph Bickel, aged 85 years, died at his home near Tunnel [Broome Co., NY] Feb. 19. The funeral was held from the house Sunday at 2 p.m. and was largely attended. Rev. O.D. Moore of Harpursville, officiated. Burial at New Ohio [Broome Co., NY]. [MHD notation: d. 1904]
Elvira A. Bingham, 77 years old, died at the home of Mrs. Lavinia Warner, Tunnel, [Broome Co.], New York Sunday afternoon. She is survived by three sons, Howard Bingham of Chenango Forks, Claude Bingham of Tunnel, Clifford J. Bingham of Binghamton; one daughter, Miss Addie L. Bingham of Oneonta; one sister, Mrs. William Stringer of Susquehanna, and four grandchildren. [MHD notation: d. Mar. 19, 1938]
Hiram Bingham, 72 years old, died at his home near Tunnel [Broome Co., NY] Thursday afternoon. [MHD notation: d. April 1928]
Huldah E. Blakeslee, 84, of Afton, [Chenango Co., NY] died at the home of her son, Frank Blakeslee, Monday, Sept. 11. She is survived by her son, Frank, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Sept. 14, at 2:30 p.m. at Tabor's Funeral Home, Afton. The Rev. William Bartz of Matathon, will officiate. Burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Afton. [MHD notation: d. Sept. 11, 1944]
George Blankley, 33, of Rockwell Mills [Chenango Co., NY] died in the Fox Memorial hospital, Oneonta, Wednesday, March 13. He is survived by his wife, Hattie Macumber Blankley; a daughter, Doris Marie; a son, William George Blankley; his mother, Mrs. William Blankley of Rockwell Mills; a sister, Mrs. James Rowe of Gilbertsville. The funeral was held at the home with the Rev. Craig of Gilbertsville officiating. The body was placed in the vault at Gilbertsville for burial later in Butternut Valley cemetery [Butternuts, Otsego Co., NY]. [MHD notation: d. 1940]
Rockwell Mills [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 16--William Blankley died at his home at Rockwell Mills, last Saturday morning, aged 72. The deceased was born in Nemeha County Kan., but had been a resident of Rockwell Mills for eleven years. He was well known and had a wide circle of friends. He is survived by his widow. There are also two children, George Blankley of Wells Bridge and Mrs. Wilma Rowe of Gilbertsville, three brothers and two sisters. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the home, Reverend Swope officiating, burial at Butternuts Valley Cemetery [Otsego Co., NY]. A brother, B.L. Blankley, and nephew and John Kluye from Kansas, arrived here Tuesday night after three days and two nights continuous driving.
Mrs. Florence Price Bliss passed away last Friday noon, Mar. 2, at her home in Guilford road. Mrs. Bliss had suffered for 16 years gradually becoming helpless from a multiple sclerosis which she had endured without complaint, buoyed up by the constant devotion and care of her husband. Of a naturally sunny disposition and possessed of great personal charm, she had carried on miraculously. She had continued to entertain with the warm hospitality for which their home was noted and made those 16 years an unforgetable example for the hosts of friends who visited there and loved her. The past year she had failed fast and was under nurses' care day and night. But to the end she knew her loved ones and had talked with them rationally the day of her passing. Mrs. Bliss was a teacher of rare talent. Her sense of humor and charm of manner, lovely blue eyes and blonde hair, as well as her unlimited patience endeared her to her eighth graders in Junior High to an unusual degree. Her interest in them was genuine and she seemed to know instinctively how to help them. So that years later, boys home on furlough for just a few days always wanted to go see their "Mrs. Bliss" before returning, proof positive of the success she had been as their teacher. Mrs. Bliss was born in Bainbridge, Jan. 5, 1901, only daughter of Winfield S. and Clara Jaquins Price. Her girlhood days were spent on her father's farm. She attended Bainbridge High School and graduated in 1917. The next year she taught in the Bristol District School and then went to Syracuse University for a year and a half of training followed by the formal completion of her education in Oneonta Normal School from which she graduated in 1923. On leaving the Normal she continued teaching in the Bristol District for four years. In 1928 Mrs. Bliss began teaching in Junior High of Bainbridge Central School and continued there for seven years. In 1935 Mrs. Bliss was stricken with multiple sclerosis and was given the less arduous position as teacher of the Newton Hollow District School where there were only a few pupils. She taught there the years 1936-37 bringing that little schoolhouse an unforgettable amount of sunshine, never sparing herself or taking time out for illness and never letting down on her high standards of teaching, but gave of her very best. In 1938 Mrs. Bliss came back into the Bainbridge school to teach part of one of the lower grades which position she filled as long as she was able until the year 1942 which completed 21 years of teaching. Mrs. Bliss is survived by her husband, Bert Bliss, to whom she was married on Oct. 11, 1923. She is also survived by her mother, Mrs. Clara Jaquins Price, and by a brother, Stanley Price, of Guilford road, and nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon, Mar. 5 at 2 o'clock in the Methodist Church, of Bainbridge, the Rev. Duane Butler officiating. Bearers were Prof. F.J. Casey, Charles Dix, Earl Clark, Fred Plumb, Gilbert Cottrell and Phillp Roscoe. Interment was in the Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY]. [MHD notation: d. Mar. 2, 1951]
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