Obituaries (February 14)

Edgar/Edward C. Ward

Bainbridge News & Republican, November 14, 1946

Edgar C. Ward died in the Bainbridge Hospital Monday night around 9 o'clock as a result of injuries sustained Friday when he was struck by a car around 6 p.m. while crossing the road at his home on the Bennettsville-Masonville highway.  The driver of the car was Mrs.  Helen Gould, of Masonville.  According to reports, Mr. Ward was coming from the barn to the house and hesitated when he saw the car and then walked into the side of the car, near the rear.  he was admitted to the Bainbridge Hospital at 6:30 where it was discovered that he was suffering from a fractured collar bone, punctured lung, fractured ribs, lacerated wounds on face and leg and contusions.  Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Fisher & Sherman Chapel with the Rev. Norman Lawton officiating. 

 

Percy Ashley Money, Jr.

Bainbridge News & Republican, November 14 , 1946 

 

Percy Ashley Mondy, Jr., 18, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], died Friday as a result of injuries he suffered when he fell into a feed mixing mill at the Hermand Adams Feed Store, Oxford. The youth slipped and fell through a hopper into the machinery and was caught in a mixing worm.  It was necessary to burn out the side of the mixing bin with an acetylene torch and tear apart the machinery to extricate his left leg, which was wound two and a half times around the worm.  According to a physician who was called to the scene, the youth suffered multiple fractures of the bones of the leg, which was half torn off, and internal injuries.

 

Daniel F. Wood

Bainbridge News & Republican, November 14, 1946

 

Masonic services were held at 8 p.m., Monday night for Daniel F. Wood, 53, who died at the Sidney Hospital on Saturday afternoon.  Mr. Wood was a resident of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] for 26 years, serving as local manager for the New York State Electric & Gas Corp., by whom he was employed for 35 years.  A year ago he was transferred to Waterville, where he served as the corporation's local representative.  Mr. Wood was a member of the Sidney Chamber of Commerce, past master of Sidney Lodge 801, F&AM, past matron of the Sidney Eastern Star Lodge for 11 years, and past district Grand Lecturer of Delaware and Sullivan District of the Eastern Star.  Funeral services were held in St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday with the Rev. Rollin D. Malany officiating.  Burial was at Pine Grove Cemetery in Charlton where the Rev. Leonard Steel, of Saratoga Springs, conducted committal services at the grave.  Pall bearers were Arthur Chase, Ralph Barnard, John Boyce, Milford Ostrander, Harry Lewis and James Philpott.  Mr. Wood is survived by his widow, Sarah F. Wood, of Waterville; a daughter, Flora Wood, of Los Angeles, Calif., two sisters, Mrs. Chester Smith, of Coronado, Calif., and Mrs. Thomas E. Stuart, of Ithaca; and by two brothers, Horace K. Wood, of San Diego, Calif., and Ralph Wood, of San Francisco, Calif.  He was born at Ithaca on Mar. 23, 1893.

 

Virginia T. Brown

Bainbridge News & Republican, November 7, 1946

 

Mrs. Virginia T. Brown, wife of Frank J. Brown of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], died Saturday at her home, after a long illness.  Besides her husband, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Albert Plausen, Mrs. Leonard Barath and Eleanor Brown, all of Binghamton; two brothers, D.O. Tyler, of Pittsburg, Pa., and Levi A. Tyler, of Deposit; one grandson, and one granddaughter.  She was a member of St. Mary's Church, and of its Rosary Society.

 

Frank J. Strasnicsak

The Otsego Farmer, November 7, 1947

 

A shotgun in the hands of a 15-year-old boy resulted in the accidental death of one hunter and the narrow escape of the boy's father from the same fate in the area's first fatal hunting mishap of the season Saturday afternoon in the woods between Bainbridge and Bennettsville, back of the Fred Drechler farm.

 

Patsy Puerile, aged 15, with his father, James, and a friend, Frank J. Strasnicsak, aged 20, the accident victim, all of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], had worked their way through the woods to a clearing where they stood talking, when Royce Stoutenberg, aged 16, also of Bainbridge, came up to them.  Young Puerile asked to see Stoutenberg's shotgun and when the younger lad opened the breach a shell was ejected.  When young Puerile placed the shell back in the chamber and closed the breech, the gun discharged.  The shot tore away the left hand pocket of the older Puerile's coat and struck Frank Strasnicsak, who was standing about 15 feet away, in the left arm, shoulder, chest and throat, according to Sgt. James C. Fleming, BCI, Troop C, State Police, who investigated.  The victim died within a few minutes of hemorrhage of the throat.  Dr. L.T. Kinney of Norwich, Chenango county coroner, rendered a verdict of accidental death due to loss of blood from gunshot wounds.  Drs. Edward Danforth and Ben L. Dodge, Bainbridge, responded to a call for first aid.

 

This was the first hunting fatality reported up state since the woods were reopened by order of Governor Dewey on Saturday after the long dry spell according to the Associated Press.  The body was removed to the Fisher and Sherman funeral home in Bainbridge and funeral services were conducted at St. John's Catholic church.  Burial was in Greenland [Greenlawn] cemetery, Bainbridge.  A veteran of World War II, the victim served in the Navy and was discharged 18 months ago.  He returned to Bainbridge  High school, from where he was graduated last June.  Having been active in sports while in school, he organized a junior high school football team and acted as coach this year.  Recently he secured a position in the Resin Laboratory of the Casein Co. of America, Bainbridge, and was to have started work Monday morning.  Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Strasnicsak, one sister, Josephine, and his maternal grandfather, Prof. Frank Mollica, all of Bainbridge, and one aunt, Mrs. Frances Mandry, New York City.