Saturday, September 13, 2014

Obituaries (September 13)

Mrs. Mary P. Mathis, 61, of Windsor [Broome Co., NY], died Friday at her home.  She is survived by her husband, Thomas; two daughters, Mrs. Anna J. Laga and Miss Virginia Mathis, all of Windsor; five sons, John, of Windsor; Andrew, of Binghamton; George, of Superior Wis.; Joseph and Francis, of Windsor, nine grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.  She was a member of St. Mary's Church, Kirkwood, and of its Rosary Society.  The Rev. John H. Donnelly recited the Rosary at her home Monday at 8 p.m.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Nov. 29, 1945]

Mrs. Hattie A. Hastings, a former resident of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], died Saturday afternoon in Binghamton following an extended illness.  Mrs. Hastings was the widow of the late Willard M. Hastings, a former furniture dealer and mortician in Bainbridge.  Mrs. Hastings was born May 7, 1858.  While she made her home in Norwich the past few years, a great part of her life was spent in Bainbridge.  She is not known to have any near relatives.  Funeral services were conducted from the William Breese Funeral Home in Norwich Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock with the Rev. Thomas G. Swales, pastor of the Broad street Methodist church officiating.  Burial was in Bainbridge.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Dec. 6, 1945]

Stacy B.D.Belden, 64, owner and former editor of the Delaware County Dairyman, died Friday night while visiting a son, the Rev. Frederick Belden, Johnstown.  Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Congregational-Baptist Church.  The Rev. Robert Howland, pastor, officiated.  Burial was in the Ouloeut Valley cemetery.  Mr. Belden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Belden, of Castile, and a resident of Franklin [Delaware Co.,. NY] 30 years, was pastor of the Baptist Church, Franklin, from 1916 to 1919, and after that, supply pastor of the Wells Bridge Baptist Church.  Born July 7, 1881, Mr. Belden was married in 1908 in Watertown.  He bought the Delaware County Dairyman in 1926 and operated the paper until 1944, when he leased it and took a position in the Scintilla, Sidney.  While a resident of Franklin, Mr. Belden was chairman of the library board, school director, and trustee of the Baptist Church.  He was past master of Masonic Lodge, No. 562.  He leaves his wife, Mrs. May (Halsey) Belden; another son, Charles A. Belden, vice-principal at the Oneonta High School; and a brother, Kenneth, Rochester.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Dec. 6, 1945]

Two young men, Wesley G. Faber, aged 18, of Laurens [Otsego Co., NY], R.D.1, and J. Gordon Shoglund, aged 18, of West Laurens, died early last Thursday morning while being transported in the Oneonta city ambulance to the Fox Memorial Hospital.  They were victims of an automobile collision that took place that morning two miles east of West Laurens.  Troopers of the Oneonta State Police post, who investigated stated that Faber was the owner and operator of the Plymouth coach in which he and Shoglund were going to work on the federal flood control project at West Oneonta.  At a curve and downgrade, on snow-covered pavement, the car went out of control, skidded off the highway and back again and came into contact with a truck of Robert Foley Construction Company, of Binghamton.  The steel boom, part of the regular equipment which was being carried in its usual place on the side of the truck penetrated the Plymouth car and fractured the skulls of both its occupants.  The ambulance was called, responded promptly and the youths were taken at once to Oneonta, but both had expired on arrival at the hospital.  Dr. Norman W. Getman, of Oneonta, Otsego County Coroner, ruled that death was accidental.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Dec. 6, 1945]

John H. Gallegher, 85 died at 4 p.m. Friday at the home of Mrs. Sarah Chapan, Hale Eddy.  The body was removed to the Cecil H. Lee Funeral home, Deposit, where the funeral was held Monday afternoon, the Rev. Walter Skellet officiating.  Burial in the Hale Eddy cemetery [Delaware Co., NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Dec. 6, 1945]

George Lockwood, 66, of Nineveh Junction [Broome Co., NY], was fatally injured last Thursday morning when the half-ton truck he was driving was struck by a D.&H. Railroad freight train on a private crossing just north of Nineveh.  Mr. Lockwood, an employee of Frank Lewis & Sons, of Afton, died in the Binghamton City hospital about one hour after he was admitted.  He suffered multiple injuries, including internal hurts.  The accident happened during "a blinding snowstorm" and Mr. Lockwood was alone in the truck.  Railroad officials said a northbound freight train caught the truck in the rear.  Mr. Lockwood was either thrown out of the truck or was attempting to leap from the truck.  A southbound freight had stopped just north of the crossing, waiting for the northbound to pass, and Mr. Lockwood is believed to have become confused.  Mr. Lockwood was taken to the hospital in the Tabor ambulance of Afton, after emergency treatment at the office of Dr. William H. Crull, of Afton.  He was en route to work on the railroad's control tower at Nineveh Junction. The tower is being erected by the Afton contractor. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Dec. 6, 1945]

Ernest L. Prentice, 63, of 1297 Chenango street, Hillcrest, Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], passed away Thursday morning at his home.  He is survived by his wife, Rose Odell Prentice, of Hillcrest; one brother, Ralph Prentice, of Binghamton.  The funeral was held at his home Saturday at 1 p.m.,. the Rev. Percy F. Rex officiated. Burial was in Chenango Valley Cemetery.  Mrs. Rose Odell Prentice, R.N., will be remembered by her many friends in Guilford and vicinity, having made her home in and around here for several years. She is a cousin of Phillip Odell, of Guilford.  Mr. and Mrs. Odell attended the funeral in Binghamton on Saturday.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Dec. 6, 1945]

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