Obituaries (October 11)

Frank Crandall

Bainbridge Republican & Express, January 30, 1919

Pneumonia claimed another victim in Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY] Saturday at midnight in the person of Frank Crandall, aged 37.  Mr. Crandall had been very ill for about a week.  He is survived by a wife and two small children, who need the sympathy of the community.

Katherine (Palmer) Vernon

Bainbridge Republican & Express, January 30, 1919

Word came last Monday of the death from influenza of Katherine Palmer Vernon of Middletown, N.Y.  Mrs. Vernon was a daughter of Mrs. Elbert J. Palmer of this place.  Besides her mother, she is survived by her husband and two small children, also a sister, Mrs. Alice Palmer of this place.

Sidney Enterprise, January 29, 1919

Mrs. George Herbert Vernon, formerly Miss Katherine M. Palmer of Unadilla, died of pneumonia on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 19, at her late residence, 69 Wallkill avenue, Middletown, N.Y.  She is survived by her husband and two children; also her mother, Mrs. Elbert J. Palmer, and sister, Miss Alice A. Palmer of Unadilla.

S. Dana Russell

Bainbridge Republican & Express, January 30, 1919

Last Thursday, the family of Rev. A.E. Holmes received word of the death of Dana Russell of Philmont, N.Y.  Mr. Russell married Mrs. Holmes' oldest daughter, Miss Vivian Holmes who survives him also two young children, a son and a daughter.

Sidney Enterprise, January 29, 1919

S. Dana Russell passed away Thursday morning, January 23, at Philmont, N.Y., after a short illness of pleuro-pneumonia following influenza.  The funeral services were held at the home of the deceased Saturday at 11 a.m., burial in the family plot at Windham, Pa.  The deceased was born in the town of Windham September 9, 1882.  He took a course at the State College in Pennsylvania, after which he was appointed superintendent of the Borden plant at North Orwell, Pa.  From there he was transferred to Youngs and later to Sidney Center, holding this position until he resigned September last, to accept a more lucrative one as superintendent of the States Metal Co. at Mellenville, which position he held at the time of his death.  Mr. Russell was a faithful member of the M.E. church at Sidney Center.  He leaves a wife, Vivian Holmes Russell, and two small children, Marjorie Mae and Howard Townsend, also a brother Theron Russell, manager of the La France garage of Binghamton, and two sisters, Mrs. G.G. Manning of Owego and Mrs. J.T. Marsden of Towanda, Pa. to mourn his loss.

Coralin Louise (Sands) Westcott

Bainbridge Republican & Express,  January 30, 1919

On Thursday morning, January 21st, at her home in Binghamton, N.Y. occurred the death of Coralin Louise Sands Westcott.  She was born in Greene, N.Y. [Chenango Co., NY], June 4th, 1883.  Her early life was spent at Vallonia Springs, N.Y.  She was graduated from the Bainbridge High School and the Oneonta Normal School and taught with marked success at Babylon, L.I., and at Oxford, N.Y.  In May, 1910, she was married to Mr. Joseph R. Westcott, who, with a seven year old daughter Nettie Sands Westcott, survives her. She also leaves a brother, Orin A. Sands and mother Mrs. Jeams C. Sands, two aunts, Mrs. P.O. Wheeler of Sidney, N.Y. and Miss Jane Sands of Bainbridge, two uncles, Fred J. Sands and William Sands of Bainbridge, and a host of sorrowing friends. The funeral was held on January 23rd at the home.  Burial in the family mausoleum in Spring Forrest cemetery [Binghamton, Broome Co., NY].