Obituaries (January 31)

Anna Belle Wasson

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 26, 1946

Anna Belle Wasson, 87, of Nineveh [Broome Co., NY], died Friday morning at the Afton Hospital.  She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Leo Bixley, a son, Arthur, both of Nineveh; three grandchildren, Stanley, of Harpursville, Mrs. Richard Reed, of Cortland, and Mrs. Frederick Burch, foo Minoa; and six great-grandchildren.  The funeral was held at the Presbyterian Church, Nineveh, on Sunday afternoon, the Rev. M.H. Patton officiating.  Burial was in Nineveh Cemetery.

 

William H. Everett

Bainbridge news & Republican, September 26, 1946

 

William H. Everett, 81, of Harpursville [Broome Co., NY], died Friday night at the Afton Hospital.  He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Arthur Fowler, of Nineveh Junction, and Mrs. George Baker, of Harpursville; two step-sons, Harold Warner, of Deposit, and Almon Warner, of Syracuse; two step-daughters, Mrs. Walter Ireland, of Hallstead, Pa., and Mrs. Emory Shaver, of Harpursville; three brothers, Charles Everett, of Johnson City, and Albert and Arthur Everett, of Binghamton; one sister, Mrs. Thomas Haight, of Binghamton; 13 grandchildren, two great grandchildren.  The body was removed to the Harry G. Kark Funeral Home, Harpursville, where the funeral was held Tuesday afternoon the Rev. Charles J. Sabin officiating.  Burial was in the Nineveh Cemetery [Broome Co., NY].

 

Dr. Frederick Newton Winans

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 26, 1946

 

Franklin [Delaware Co., NY]:  The patriarch of Delaware County's medical profession, Dr. Frederick Newton Winans, 95, this village is dead.   Dr. Winans, whose medical career started in the "horse and buggy" days, and on the back of sturdy saddlers that carried him over dim trails, had practiced medicine for more than 70 years.  During the last 53 years of his life he lived in the stately old frame house on Main street where he died at 11 a.m. Saturday.  He retired from practice of his profession two years ago and had been in ill health for more than a year.  This community, in appreciation of myriad services which Dr. Winans had faithfully performed throughout the years last Spring paid him special tribute on the occasion of his 95th birthday, May 28.  Scores of former patients called to pay felicitation, and many others sent communications, flowers, and tokens of the occasion.  This community, and in fact a wide area in Delaware and adjoining Otsego Counties, will bow in final tribute to Dr. Winans when funeral services are held for the "Grand Old Man of Medicine" Tuesday afternoon in the Congregational Baptist church. The Rev. Robert I. Howland, pastor, will officiate. Dr. Winans will be laid at rest in Quleout Cemetery, beside Walton-Oneonta highway over which he traveled so extensively in covering his practice.  Dr. Winans was born May 28, 1851, in Stamford, Dutchess County, the son of the Rev. William S. and Susan (Barringer) Winans.  His father later served as pastor of the Franklin Methodist Church from 1870 to 1871.  Dr. Winans was graduated from Andes Collegiate Institute in 1868, from Fergusonville Academy the following year, took lecture courses at Albany Medical College and finally took his doctorate at Columbia University's College of Medicine.  In 1874, at Cobleskill, Dr. Winans, then a stalwart youth with professional beard and professional bearing, launched upon what was destined to become one of the greatest medical careers in this state.  A year after starting practice at Cobleskill Dr. Winans transferred to Gilbertsville.  Eighteen years later he moved to Franklin, becoming partner of Dr. Edward Edgerton and assuming the entire practice of their office after Dr. Edgerton's death.  Many times in earlier days Dr. Winans treated nearly 100 cases a day.  At one time 60 homes in Franklin Village alone had one or more members stricken.  In World War I, when his only peer in the medical profession in Franklin enlisted in the armed forces, Dr. Winans battled in the first influenza epidemic.  For several years he was town health officer here. He was also a member of the Otsego County, Delaware county and New York State medical Societies.

 

Fred S. Marble

Bainbridge news & Republican, October 3, 1946

 

Fred S. Marble, 78, of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], died at the Sidney Hospital Tuesday night after being a patient there for 10 weeks.  He was born at Masonville [Delaware Co., NY] July 18, 1873, the son of Milo and Eliza (Health) Marble.  He had lived in Sidney for more than 50 years and had worked for several years as a fireman at the Creosote Plant in Bainbridge.  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sylvia P. (Wilber) Marble; a son, Bertram, of Bainbridge; a brother, Benjamin, of Mount Vision; a sister, Mrs. Delia Eldred, of Mount Vision, and two grandchildren.  The funeral was held Friday at Carr and Landers funeral Home, with the Rev. William Payne, pastor of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, officiated.  Burial in Prospect Hill Cemetery [Sidney, NY].

 

John C. Golon

Bainbridge News & Republican, October 3, 1946

 

John C. Golon liked to play football so well that he met with other boys in his neighborhood and played during the summer on the old school grounds at Hobart [Delaware Co., NY] to keep in trim for the 1946 season at South Kortright Central.  Late Monday afternoon, the 17-year-old center on the first string told his teammates bowed in a huddle during the last minutes of a practice game with Fleishmanns that he didn't feel well, didn't think he could play any more.  Less than an hour later he was dead.  The sophomore at South Kortright Central had made a hard tackle in the preceding play, came out of it slightly dizzy. As the signals came and they were about to go up to the line he spoke of his dizziness.  Richard Reed of Roxbury, in his first year of coaching at south Kortright, a veteran of two and a half years of Pacific fighting, assisted the boy from the field to the sidelines where he collapsed.  He never regained consciousness and died at 6:11 Monday evening.  Dr. F. Dickson Brown of Hobart told school authorities that the boy had been struck in just the right place during the tackle to bring death.  He suffered an intracranial hemorrhage.

 

John Reardon

Bainbridge News & Republican, October 3, 1946

 

John Reardon, 75, died Friday morning at the Barnes Memorial Hospital, Susquehanna [PA].  He is survived by his wife, Mary, of Susquehanna; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Savory and Mrs. Joseph Chapman, both of Binghamton; two sons, Mark, of Susquehanna and John, of Hornell.

 

Viola Eggleston Smith

Bainbridge News & Republican, October 3, 1946

 

Mrs. Viola Eggleston Smith, wife of the late Stephen D. Smith, died Sept. 24 at her home, Bixby street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], after an illness of a few weeks.  Born Jan. 28, 1871, in Tompkins, she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. lewis Eggleston. Thirty-four years ago, she moved to Bainbridge from Masonville.  She is survived by seven sons, Lewis M., Lynn J., Clair M., all of Bainbridge; Leslie, of Coventry; Harry S., Reno G., and Raymond, all of Bainbridge; five sisters, Mrs. Emma Evans, Mrs. Agnes Jones, Mrs. Henry Seymour, Mrs. O.A. Peck, all of Bainbridge, and Mrs. Lewis Evans, of Norwich; and a number of grandchildren.  Services were held from her home Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Harry E. Brooks officiating.  Bearers were four grandsons, Harry Smith, William Smith, Clifford Smith and Stanley Smith.  Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery  [Bainbridge, NY].