Saturday, December 20, 2014

Obituaries (December 20)

Stella A. Hinds
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946

Mrs. Stella A. Hinds, of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], mother of Mrs. Leone Grow, of Bainbridge, died Monday night in Afton.  Funeral services will be held at the Fisher Chapel, Bainbridge, Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'clock.
 
Lawrence Slater
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946
 
Lawrence Slater, of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], died at the Binghamton City Hospital Saturday morning.  He is survived by a daughter, Miss Florence Slater, and a son, Harold Slater, both of Afton.
 
John Willis Churchill
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946
 
John Willis Churchill, 27, of Great Bend, Pa., who recently completed four years and two months of service with the Army Air Forces, lost his life in a freight elevator accident late Friday afternoon.  The overseas veteran was killed instantly at the Robinson street plant of the Brewer-Titchener Corp.  Officials of the corporation where Mr. Churchill was an employee of the shipping and packing room, said the ex-soldier stepped on a freight truck to peer over the backboard of the elevator as it was moving upward.  They said he was crushed between the backboard and a third-floor beam.  Dr. john J. Breivis, a Broome County coroner, who issued a verdict of accidental death, said an autopsy disclosed death resulted from a broken neck.  The victim also suffered a skull fracture.
 
Clyde R. Place
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946
 
Clyde R. Place, 68, consulting engineer for Rockefeller Center, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the British Museum in London, died Thursday, Mar. 28.  He was a native of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY].
 
Maurice J. Huyck
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946
 
Funeral of Maurice J. Huyck, 73, Town of Windsor highway superintendent, who died Monday morning, was held Wednesday in the Windsor Presbyterian Church.  He had been superintendent since November, 1924.  Mr. Huyck, whose death was attributed to a heart condition, was a native of Barbourville, Town of Deposit [Delaware Co., NY].  He was born Dec. 30, 1872.  He was the son of the late John Nicholas and Philena Rogers Huyck, of Albany County.  A resident of Windsor [Broome Co., NY] for 30 years, Mr. Huyck was educated in the public schools of the Town of Deposit and Lowell School of Business in Binghamton.  He had been an elder of Windsor Presbyterian Church since 1916.  The Rev. Erban F. Cline, of Candor, officiated at the funeral Burial in Windsor.  Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lillian Smith Huyck; a daughter, Mrs. J. Douglas Bennett, both of Windsor; two sisters, Mrs. Dayton McLaughlin, of Cannonsville, and Mrs. Brainard Cook, of Deposit; a granddaughter, Ann H. Bennett, of Windsor.
 
James M. Zeigler
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946
 
Susquehanna [PA]:  James M. Zeigler, 23, of Lanesboro [PA], who was injured Wednesday night in a motorcycle accident, died at the Barnes Hospital Thursday.  Mr. Zeigler had just purchased the motorcycle Wednesday morning.  On the way from Susquehanna to Lanesboro he lost control of the machine on East Main street.  He was carried across the street and struck the front of the Harry Benson building.  The motorcycle struck the building with such force that the rider was catapulted from the machine and his head struck a supporting timber in front of the building, fracturing the skull.  He was taken to the hospital but failed to regain consciousness.  Last December the young man was honorably discharged form the navy after three years' service.  He had served on the U.S.S. Rocky Mount in the Pacific and his ship took part in seven major invasions.  He had escaped any injury and wounds.  Mr. Zeigler is survived by his father, Philip Zeigler, of Carbondale, and one sister, Mrs. Reed Knorr, of Susquehanna.
 
Sidney B. Garrison
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946
 
Sidney B. Garrison, father of Mrs. R.N. Criddle, of Susquehanna and a business man of the olden days who lived to see many great changes in America, died at the Barnes Hospital in Susquehanna [PA] Saturday morning Mar. 23.  Mr. Garrison, a native of Delaware county, where he was born 90 years ago, had made his home with Mrs. Criddle for about ten years.  A good share of his life was spent in Hancock, where he was engaged in the lumber business.  In his early days he was a rafts man and transported lumber with the turbulent tide of the Delaware River for his power.  He was also engaged in other lines of business.
 
William Skojec
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946
 
William Skojec, 38, of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], died in Wilson Memorial Hospital Friday night about 48 hours after sustaining severe internal injuries while working in the E.J. Rubber Reclaim plant in Johnson City.  Details of the accident in which he was injured were still incomplete Saturday.  A company official said that investigation had failed to produce evidence as to how the injuries were sustained, Mr. Skojec was working alone at his job, and there were no witnesses, he said.  The victim told a physician at the hospital that the door of a pressure cooker used in processing rubber flew open and struck him.  He is survived by his wife, six children, five brothers and two sisters.
 
Death Notices
Chenango Telegraph, November 25, 1835
In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st inst., of consumption, James Thompson, Esq., aged 61 years.  Mr. T. was one of the early settlers of this part of the county, and a highly respectable man.  He held the office of Justice of the Peace for a great number of years, which station he filled to the day of his death.
 
Bainbridge Republican, February 14, 1878
AVERY:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]on 3d, Mr. Stephen L. Avery, aged 63 years.
 
VANDERWACKER:  In Sidney Plains [Delaware Co., NY], Jan. 23, 1878 Hanah Vanderwacker, wife of John Vanderwacker, aged 78 years.
 
BARNES:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 1st, of consumption, Sarah S. Brooks, daughter of Moses Brooks of Rockdale and wife of Edwin R. Barnes of Norwich.
 
Bainbridge Republican, February 21, 1878
MATTHEWS:  In Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], Jan. 29 Lydia Matthews, aged 35 years.

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