Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Obituaries (January 14, 2015

Clayton Stephen Card
Bainbridge News & Republican, July 18, 1946

Clayton Stephen Card, 67, of Windsor [Broome Co., NY], died Saturday at the Binghamton City Hospital.  He is survived by a brother, Earl of Pepacton.  The body was removed to the Wood Chapel, Windsor where the funeral was held Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. James F. Root, officiating.  Burial was in Riverside cemetery, Windsor.
 
Mary Elizabeth Davis
Bainbridge News & Republican, July 18, 1946
 
Miss Mary Elizabeth Davis, 62, of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], R.D.2, died suddenly Wednesday afternoon of last week at her home.  She is survived by a brother, June Davis, of Afton, R.D.2; a niece, Mrs. Blanche Partridge, of Bainbridge.  The body was removed to the Karschner Funeral Home in Afton, where funeral services were held Friday afternoon, the Rev. George Graves officiating.  Burial was in Glenwood Cemetery, Afton.
 
George B. Rich
Bainbridge News & Republican, July 18, 1946
 
George B. Rich, 80, who died July 9, in Winslo, Ariz., was buried in Afton [Chenango Co., NY] Wednesday.  He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Ina Harrington, of Johnson City, and several nieces and nephews.  Mr. Rich, a former resident of Bainbridge, lived in the house now owned by B.N. Williams.
 
John A. Ahearn
Bainbridge News & Republican, July 25, 1946
 
John A. Ahearn, a native of Susquehanna [PA], died suddenly at his home in Jackson Heights, July 19.  Mr. Ahearn was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Ahearn, of Susquehanna, and the last of his immediate family.  He was a graduate of Laurel Hill Academy and a graduate electrical engineer of a New York University.  At the time of his death, he was the president of Electime Corp. in New York.  His brother, the Rev. Thomas A. Ahearn died suddenly in Wilkes-Barre a few months ago.
 
Joseph R. Ruepah & Frank G. Elegy
Bainbridge News & Republican, July 25, 1946
 
Joseph R. Tuepah, 19, of West Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], and Frank G. Elegy, 38, of Oneonta, both war veterans were killed last week Wednesday afternoon when the motorcycle which they were riding crashed into a tree on the Otadawa road at West Oneonta.  The two men were riding east along the road when Tuepah, who was driving, lost control, of the machine while attempting to negotiate a curve.  The motorcycle ran off the right side of the road and into a shallow ditch which it followed for 195 feet.  At the end of that distance the motorcycle crashed into an apple tree and the two men struck a limb of the tree about eight inches in diameter.  The victims of the accident were taken to the Fox hospital in an ambulance where Elegy was pronounced dead and Tuepah died a few minutes after arrival.  Both men had suffered skull fractures.
 
Lida P. Holman
Bainbridge News & Republican, July 25, 1946
 
Mrs. Lida Puffer Holman, 48, wife of Raymond W. Holman, of 11 Juliand St. [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], died at her home Monday noon, after an illness of several months.  Born in Trout Creek [Delaware Co., NY], April 2, 1898, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Allie (Latham) Puffer.  In 1913, she moved to Bainbridge with her family where she had lived since except for two years after her marriage to Raymond W. Holman, on June 18, 1919, when they resided in Watertown and Elmira.  She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Bainbridge.  Besides her husband she is survived by two sons, Lt. (j.g.) Bruce Holman, USN, stationed in Hong Kong, China, and Gary Holman, of Bainbridge; a daughter, Mrs. Paul Sherman, of Sidney; three sisters, Mrs. J.D. Teed, Mrs. Warner Taylor and Mrs. William Davidson.  All of Bainbridge; a granddaughter, Patricia Sherman, of Sidney; and several nieces and nephews.  The funeral will be held this afternoon (Thursday) at 2 o'clock in the Fisher Chapel with the Rev. Henry Stammer officiating.  The bearers will be Harold Robinson, Amos Tuckey, Foster Darlin, Wilmont Horton, Fred Sherman and Dr. Ben Dodge.  Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].
 
Wanda & Sandra Williams
Bainbridge News & Republican, July 25, 1946
 
Two little girls, aged six and nine are dead and a nine-room farmhouse is in ashes following a fire which broke out at 2:30 Wednesday morning in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Williams on Carcass brook, midway between Rock Rift on Route 10 and Harvard on Route 30.  Braving the flames in frantic efforts to save the children, Wanda, nine, and Sandra, six, Mr. and Mrs. Williams suffered severe burns.  Mr. Williams saved their year-old baby, Julia Ann, and Val Williams, two, another daughter, by throwing them from a downstairs window.  The baby suffered mild first and second degree burns;  Mrs. Williams suffered first and second degree burns of the back, arms, face and neck, and partial shock, and Mr. Williams had scratches and burns of the face.  He was discharged form the Margaretville Hospital after first aid.  Mrs. Williams and her baby are under treatment there while Val is at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jaycox, neighbors.  She suffered a small burn on the right side.  Two farmhands, recently arrived form New York City to help in the harvest, escaped injury by leaping naked form a second story window.  Fire is believed to have originated in the dwelling where the kitchen range was located.  It was in this corner on the second floor where Wanda and Sandra Slept.  Mr. Jaycox was awakened at 2:50 but by the time he had reached the burning home the situation was hopeless.  There are no telephones in the Carcass brook valley, the nearest being on Baxter brook.  He found the building a mass of flames and a ladder, which Mr. Williams had placed up to the sleeping girls' window as a means of rescue, crumpling from the heat.  As he had reached the top of the ladder Mr. Williams had been greeted by flames bursting out of the window in such intensity that he was forced back to the ground.  Mrs. Williams had rushed back in to get her pocketbook when flames seared her about the face and arms.  She was unable to get the purse not were any of the contents of the home saved, including clothing.
 
 

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