Obituary: L. Willard Kittle, 77, retired machinist of the New York Air Brake Company, died about 3 this morning at his home, 802 Holcomb St., after an illness of about three years. Death was attributed to a lung ailment.
The funeral will be Thursday afternoon at 2 at the Howland-Stoddard Funeral Chapel. Rev. John B. Smiley, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Brookside Cemetery.
His wife, Mrs. Alberta L. Mains Kittle, is the only near survivor.
Mr. Kittle had been in the hospital on two occasions. He returned home from the House of the Good Samaritan Monday night about 7 after having been under treatment there since Saturday.
He was born on Grindstone Island Oct. 8, 1884, a son of Louis D. and Eva A. Chase Kittle. He lived on the island until 1895 when the family moved to Clayton. After ten years in Clayton, he came to Watertown in the fall of 1905 and had
since lived here.Mr. Kittle was a machinist at the Air Brake Company plant for 44 years, retiring in 1949.
He married Miss Alberta L. Mains of this city at the First Presbyterian Church Oct. 15, 1942. Rev. Dr. Robert Wells Youngs, then the pastor of the church, performed the ceremony.
Mr. Kittle was a member of the Watertown Lodge of Elks and Watertown Lodge 49, F. & A.M.
His mother died here Dec. 18, 1938, at the age of 81 years. His father died Nov. 15, 1947, at the age of 94 years.
Obituary (from newspaper of 3 March 1971): CLAYTON---William F. Warner, 88, of 406 James St., died at 3:15 Tuesday afternoon in the Edward John Noble Hospital, Alexandria Bay.
The funeral will be Friday at 11 a.m. in Christ Episcopal Church, Rev. Richmond Hutchins, rector, officiating. Burial will be in Clayton Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Cummings Funeral Home Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Contributions may be made to the Edward John Noble Hospital, Alexandria Bay, or the Altar Guild of Christ Episcopal Church.
A Masonic service will be held at the funeral home Thursday night at 8 p.m.
Surviving is a daughter Mrs. Lawrence (Agnes) Kittle, Clayton; one granddaughter, and two great-grandchildren.
He was born May 31, 1882, a son of John Frederick and Lena Schwidzer Warner, in Karlsruhe-Baden, Germany. His parents brought him to Little Falls as a child where he attended the local academy.
On April 21, 1903, he married Carolyn A. Hull in Sauquoit Methodist Church, Rev. Charles Dile, officiating. She died on July 11, 1961 at the age of 84.
Before moving to Clayton in 1922, Mr. Warner lived in Earlville, Utica, Walton, and Oswego. He was associated with various knitting mills during his early life.
In 1925, he started his own knitting business in Clayton known as the Clayton Manufacturing Co., which he ran until his retirement in the 1950s. The company was sold and changed to the name of Staple and Baker.
Mr. Warner was a past vestryman of Christ Episcopal Church, a member of the Masonic Lodge, 296, F.&A.M., Media Temple Shrine, Watertown, and was the oldest living master of the Masonic Lodge in Clayton.
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