Obituaries (March 4)

Mrs. Mary A. Guther, 82, nee Haunstein, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank McCulley, last Friday, June 16.  Death was due to diabetes and advancing age.  Mrs. Guther was born at Pleasant Mount, Pa., August 30, 1850.  She married the late John Guther there about 60 years ago.  To them seven children were born, of whom all but two are living.  Mr. Guther died a number of years ago at Pleasant Mount and about four years ago Mrs. Guther came to live with her daughter, Mrs. McCulley, where she lived until her death.  She was a member of the Lutheran German Church at Pleasant Mount.  The funeral was held from the home at Pleasant Mount, Friday, June 16, at 2 p.m.  Burial was in Riverdale Cemetery at Pleasant Mount.  She is survived by three brothers, George , Augustus, and Martin, of Pleasant Mount, one sister, Anna of Vestal, N.Y., four sons, John, Fred, Stephen, and Victor, and one daughter, Mrs. McCulley, of Bainbridge.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 22, 1933]

 

Mrs. Emily Hicks, 84 passed away at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening, June 20th, at the home of her brother, W.S. Price, of Searles Hill [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], where she had been residing for some time.  Mrs. Hicks was born near Southport, Conn., and had passed most of her lifetime in New York state, although she had lived for a time at White Plains, N.Y., and Passaic, N.J.  Her death was due to senility.  The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Colwell Brothers funeral chapel in Bainbridge and interment will be in Greenlawn cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  Mrs. Hicks is survived by one daughter, Mrs. L.C. Bailey, of Clifton, N.J.; one brother, Mr. Price, and two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Ryan and Mrs. Nellie Houghton, of Brewster, N.J.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 22, 1933]

 

John Sole, for many years a farmer of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] and Bennettsville [Chenango Co., NY], passed away at the home of his only daughter, Mrs. Ernest Hawkins, in Bainbridge, on Sunday, June 25th, at 1:15 p.m.  Mr. Sole was 83 years old.  Advancing age was the cause of death.  John Sole came to this country from England.  He was born June 18, 1850, at Ashford, Kent County.  When he was 21 years of age he came to this country and took a job on a farm near Guilford.  On April 1, 1881, he married Miss Julia Newell of Middlebridge.  One daughter was born to them, Mrs. Hawkins of Bainbridge.  About a year after his marriage he bought a farm near Bennettsville where he lived for 30 years until the death of his wife, after which he came to Bainbridge to live with Mrs. Hawkins.  He had lived at the Hawkins home 19 years at the time of his death.  He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Hawkins; five grandchildren, Mrs. Haynes, of Bovina, Mrs. Jack Dingwall, of Albany, Ivan, Gertrude and Jack Hawkins, of Bainbridge; three great-grandchildren, two nieces, a nephew and a sister in Canada, and a nephew in Rogers Hollow.  The funeral was held Wednesday, June 28, at 2 p.m. from the Hawkins home in Kirby street.  He was buried beside his wife in East Side Cemetery, at Afton [Chenango Co., N Y].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 29, 1933]

 

Reuben Rounds, aged 82, died last Thursday night at 8 o'clock at his home in Pearl street, this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY].  The immediate cause of death was pneumonia, although he had been ill for some time with a complication of diseases.  Deceased is survived by his widow, Elizabeth Rounds, and a son, Arthur Rounds, an employee of the Milk Sugar Company.  born in Oxford on October 5, 1849, Mr. Rounds spent his whole life in this region.  It was only within the last few years that he retired from his farm in West Bainbridge, and he and his wife removed to Bainbridge.  He had been in dairy farming for over 60 years.  Funeral services were conducted by Colwell Bros.' Funeral Home and burial was in the West Bainbridge Cemetery, Rev. E.A. Snyder officiating.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 29, 1933]

The late Reuben Rounds, who died here June 22, and whose death was recorded in the last issue of the News, is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Rounds; a son, Arthur Rounds, of Bainbridge; a daughter, Mrs. Minnie Lyon, of Oneonta; six grandchildren, Erford and Howard Lyon, of Coventryville, Homer, Kenneth and Mary Lyon, of Oneonta, and Mrs. Daniel Krothe, of Oneonta; also one great-grandchild, Miss Gwendolyn Krothe, of Oneonta.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 6, 1933]

 

William Marvin Bennett, 67, retired Rochester High School principal, passed away in a hospital in that city on June 20th.  After serving the schools of Rochester for 21 years, Mr. Bennett retired two years ago.  At that time he was principal of the West Side High School.  Mr. Bennett was formerly a resident of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], coming there with his parents in his youth and receiving his early education here.  He was born in Flint Mich., in May, 1866, the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Edward Bennett.  Orphaned early in life, he achieved his higher education and subsequent success in life wholly through his own efforts.  He worked his way through Colgate University, from which he was graduated in 1891 and was rewarded with his master's degree at the same college two years later.  June 22, 1892, he married Edith A. West, in Bainbridge, and by coincidence his funeral occurred on this anniversary of his marriage.  Miss West was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis West, who for many years resided in the house on North Main street now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Harman.  Mr. West was a well-known local pharmacist, for some years conducting a drug store, where is now located the Jeffrey grocery Store.  He entered at once upon his career as a teacher, starting in Nashville, Tenn., and then came back to New York state to become principal of New Berlin High school, where he remained one year.  From New Berlin he went to Canandaigua Academy, where he taught classes in science, and then went to Erie, Pa., in a like capacity.  About that time the Rochester Board of Education felt the need of a man to develop plans for the science laboratories and equipment in the newly projected East High School and Mr. Bennett was called there, becoming a member of the faculty in the old Free Academy in 1900.  With the opening of East High School, he became a member of the faculty in that school, and when West High School was opened in Genesee street in 1905, he was placed in control of the science courses in that school, where Herbert S. Weet was principal.  When Mr. Weet resigned this post to become superintendent of schools, Mr. Bennett was elevated to the principalship of West High School.  At the time of his retirement in 1931, high tribute was paid him by Superintendent Weet and his colleagues among the high school principals and teachers of the city.  His service to education won him fame far outside the city of Rochester, and he frequently was called into conferences by the State Department of Education and for several years was a member of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Middle States and Maryland.  He was a member of the National Education Association, the New York State Teachers' Association, Rochester Teachers' Assn., Rochester Schoolmasters' Club, Phi Betta Kappa and Delta Upsilon fraternities and a member of Warren C. Hubbard Lodge, F.&A. M. Rochester Torch Club and Cosmos Club.  Besides his wife, he leaves a son, Walter W. Bennett, chairman of the science department of Charlotte High School.  Funeral services will be conducted from the home, 18 Warwick avenue, tomorrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock.  Mr. Bennett had a rare combination of business ability and educational leadership.  Loose ends were things unknown to his administration of the West High School.  With this business ability, however, went a devotion to the welfare of the boys and girls in that school that was unexcelled.  He was the type of character who held himself to rigid accountability, and he always confidently expected the best form those who were associated with him both as teachers and as students.  He was always a refined gentleman of scholarly interests.  His friendships were deep and strong.  He had a great part in winning for the public school system of Rochester whatever credit it merits.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 29, 1933]