Obituaries (February 28)

Ida (Camp) Kellogg & Ira Alberto Kellogg

Died April 2&3, 1933, New Berlin, NY

Mrs. Ida Kellogg, 71, widow of Clarence A. Kellogg, died Sunday, April 2, 1933, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rolland Kellogg, in this village.  She died very suddenly of heart trouble.  Deceased was born in Morris, N.Y. [Otsego Co.], a daughter of Charles and Abigail Cady Camp. She was a member of the South New Berlin Baptist church.  Mr. Kellogg died in 1917. Besides her daughter at whose home she died, she leaves one son, Walter.  Following the death of his mother, Ira Alberto Kellogg, 45, died on Monday, April 3rd at the Rolland Kellogg home.  He had been ill with pneumonia for several days.  Mr. Kellogg was born on June 12, 1887, at Morris.  A double funeral for Mrs. Kellogg and son was held on Wednesday afternoon at the Dakin funeral chapel, Rev. B.H. Eddy officiating. Burial was made at South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY]--New Berlin Gazette.

Ella (Keane) Kerley

Died February 26, 1944, Norwich, NY

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mrs. Ella Keane Kerley, a retired Norwich teacher, who had been a patient in Chenango Memorial Hospital for two weeks, suffering from a fractured arm sustained in a fall at her home, died suddenly at noon Saturday. A minute before she had been joking with her husband and the attending nurse.  Saturday morning, Dr. E.P. Gibson, attending physician, had made a telephone report to Capt. John K. Kerley, a son, at Fort Belvoir, Va., stating that the condition of  Mrs.  Kerley warranted the setting of the fractured arm.  Mrs. Kerley was born in this city Jan. 6, 1866, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Fagan Keane.  Her entire life was passed in Norwich.  Mrs. Kerley retired in 1937 after serving for several years as principal of the South Broad Street School.  She had taught for 49 years.  She remained active as a member of the Norwich Parent Teachers Association.  She was a member of the New York State Teachers' Association, St. Paul's Church, the League of the Sacred Heart and the Rosary Society of St. Paul's Chruch. Besides her husband, John H. Kerley, one son, Capt. John K. Kerley of Fort Belvoir, Va., survives, as do two grandchildren, Theodore and Janet Kerley and a niece, Mrs. J. Leo Weiler of this city.  Services will be held tomorrow at 9 A.M. from the George J. Devine Funeral home and at 9:30 from St. Paul's Church with the pastor, the Rev. Father Charles M. Coveney officiating.  The body will rest in the Mt. Hope chapel vault awaiting burial in the spring in St. Paul's Cemetery.

Clarence A. King

Chenango Telegraph, February 6, 1934

The death of Clarence A. King occurred at his winter home in DeLand, Florida, Sunday afternoon about 3 o'clock.  Mr. King, who was 74 years old, succumbed suddenly.  He and Mrs. King had attended church, and he was assisting her with the Sunday dinner when stricken with a heart attack.  The body will be brought to Norwich and taken to the Breese funeral home, where services will probably be held Thursday afternoon, with burial in Mt. Hope cemetery [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].  Mr. King was a former Norwich merchant, having been engaged in the hardware business in this city 35 years ago with Charles G. Nash, the firm name being King and Nash. Their store occupied the location where the Buchanan Hardware Company is now.  Mr. King bought out the interests of his partner after a time, but later engaged in the acetylene lighting business. He bought the King farm in king Settlement, owned by his late grandfather, and that had been his home except during the winter, which he had spent in Florida. The deceased was a life member of the Broad Street M.E. church. There survive his wife, and one son, Albert J. King of king Settlement; a brother, Edward H. King of Utica, and two grandchildren.

Harold L. Keeler, Jr.

Died December 21, 1930, Norwich, NY

Harold L. Keeler, Jr., 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Keeler of 14 Randall avenue, passed away at the Chenango Memorial Hospital [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] Sunday afternoon. at 2:15 following a brief illness.  Taken to the hospital Friday suffering from diabetes the lad's condition was regarded as serious, and as the disease became more acute, uremic poisoning developed causing death.  Although he suffered considerably the lad was most patient to the end.  Harold possessed a friendly disposition and had a host of school friends who will be grieved at his demise.  He passed his 11th birthday anniversary the fourth of last October.  He was an honor student, being especially bright in his studies.  He attended 6-2 grade in school.  He was a member of the First Congregational church Sunday school and here as well as in school work he proved to be an apt pupil.  Besides the parents there survive three sisters, Eleanor, Mary and Jean, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F.J. Tuttle.  Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the late home, Rev. D.G. DeBoer officiating with burial in Mt. Hope [Norwich, NY].

Clifford K. Keeler

Died July 2, 1943

Capt. Clifford R. Keeler, a native of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] and former Binghamtonian, died while on a special mission in the Southwest Pacific area, according to a telegram received by his mother, Mrs. Hugh V. Kelley of East Orange, N.J., as she arrived in Norwich to spend a vacation with relatives.  Captain Keeler, 29, left for the Pacific area March 1.  He was aboard a navy ship on a special mission for the army when his mother last heard from him.  A War Department telegram reporting his death was sent to his wife who resides in Washington, D.C., and who relayed the report to his mother in Norwich. The telegram reported that Captain Keeler "had died" while in the war zone, but did not state whether he was killed in action or succumbed to natural causes.  Captain Keeler has a daughter whom he has never seen.  She was born May 24, less than three months after he was sent overseas.  Mrs. Keeler is the former Constance Kramer of Washington, D.C.  They were married May 20, 1942 while he was attending Fort Belvoir, Va.  Before he entered the service, Captain Keeler was employed by Spaulding Bakeries of Binghamton at their Syracuse office. He had resided in Binghamton since 1925, moving here with his family from Norwich.  He attended St. John Avenue School (now Alexander Hamilton School) and was graduated from Binghamton Central High School in 1933.  He then entered the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and received his B.A. degree there in 1937.  During a four-month period in 1938, he attended Northwestern University and earned a master's degree.  He entered the army as a selectee from Syracuse on March 25, 1941 and was sent to Fort Niagara.  From there he went to Fort Belvoir to begin his work for a commission at the Officers Candidate School for engineers.  He left as a second lieutenant Jan. 25, 1942 for Fort Leonard Wood, Rolla, Mo., where he later became a first lieutenant.  He remained there until Nov. 1, 1942 when he was transferred to Camp Claiborne, La.  He served there until Feb. 25, 1943. A few days later he left San Francisco for the Pacific area.  He became a captain May 31 while on duty in the battle zone.  In addition to his mother, wife and daughter, Captain Keeler is survived by a sister, Janet Kelley; two uncles, Keith Rossman and Harold L. Keeler, and an aunt, Lilah M. Rossman, all of Norwich.

Press & Sun Bulletin, July 13, 1943

Memorial services for Capt. Clifford R. Keeler, whose death in the South Pacific was recently reported by the War Department were held at noon today at Spaulding Bakeries, by his former fellow employees. Excerpts from some of his recent letters were read by Volney R. Osha.  One of the letters disclosed that Captain Keeler had been cited by Gen. U.S. Grant, Ill, "for efforts beyond the scope required in his normal line of duty."  This was while Mr. Keeler was a first lieutenant at Fort Leonard Wood in 1942. The following excerpts were quoted from Captain Keeler's letters:  "When things get a bit tough, think of us," he wrote from the South Pacific in April.  He closed his last letter with this bit of a soldier's philosophy:  "It is surprising how much more we can do when we think we have done all we can."  In addition to employees, Mrs. Hugh V. Kelley, Captain Keeler's mother of East Orange, N.J.; Mrs. Ann Hadley and Charles S. Douglas attended the services.  The Rev. George W. Brown, pastor of West Presbyterian Chruch, officiated.

Death Notices

Chenango American, October 29, 1863

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th inst., Helen [Hayes], wife of Lorenzo Hayes, aged 80 years, and 4 months.

In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst., of chronic diarrhea, Mr. Andrew Peck, aged 20 years, late of Co. B, 114th Rev. N.YS.V.

At Berwick City, La., on the 25th ult., of congestive fever, Thomas Peck, of Co. B, 114th Reg. N.Y.S.V., formerly of Pitcher, aged 18 years.

At Folly Island, S.C., on the 19th ult., Lieut. Ira D. Jacobs, son of Rev. Edwin T. Jacobs, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

In Philadelphia, on the 3d inst., Mr. Ephraim Breed, Jr., formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], aged 49 years.

In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., of consumption, Miss Almira C. [Page], daughter of Solomon and Eliza Page, aged 20 years, 11 months.