Obituary: CLAYTON---Clifford C. Dwyer, 61, Pelow Road, Clayton, Route 2, a retired farmer, died Monday night in his sleep at his trailer home.
The funeral will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Cummings Funeral Home, Clayton, Rev. Richard E. Barton, Clayton United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in St. Lawrence Cemetery, Town of Clayton.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Verna Dwyer; two daughters, Mrs. Lawrence (Peggy A.) Kalk, and Mrs. Gary (Martha) Clark, both of Clayton, Route 2; four step-children, Eugene M. Garnsey, Canton, Mrs. Donald (Shirley N.) Corneau,
Monticello, Glen G. Garnsey, Pompano Beach, Fla., and Mrs. George (Elizabeth V.) Clark, Vestal; 23 grandchildren; one great grandchild; his father, Clarence Dwyer, Cape Vincent, R.D.; and a brother, Horace Dwyer, Cape Vincent Road. A daughter,
Irene Rose, died in infancy.Born in the Town of Cape Vincent Oct. 1, 1913, a son of Clarence and Rose Garnsey Dwyer, he attended Town of Clayton schools and married Mrs. Verna N. Turcott Garnsey May 18, 1944, in the Clayton Methodist parsonage.
He operated farms in the Clayton section and was also employed as an assembler at local farm implement stores. This September he became employed at the Minna Anthony Common Nature Center, Wellesley Island, by the State Park Commission,
under the federal Green Thumb Environmental Beautification program.
Obituary (from Thousand Islands Sun of 24 July 1991): CLAYTON---Verna N. Dwyer, 84, Strawberry Lane, a native of Grindstone Island, died July 17 in the Madonna Home, Watertown, after a long illness.
There was no funeral. The body was cremated. A graveside service will be at a later date in St. Lawrence Cemetery, town of Cape Vincent.
Contributions may be made in her name to the Clayton Volunteer Ambulance Fund.
Surviving are a son, Eugene M. Garnsey, Canton; three daughters, Mrs. Gary (Martha) Clark and Mrs. Lawrence (Peggy) Kalk, both of Clayton, and Mrs. Donald (Shirley) Corneau, California; 22 grandchildren; many great-grandchildren, and
nieces and nephews.A son, Glen G. Garnsey, well-known harness race driver and member of the Harness Racing Hall of Fame, died Sept. 27, 1985. Two daughters, Mrs. Clare (Elizabeth) Patterson and Irene Rose Garnsey, two brothers, Edwin K. and Irwin J.
Turcotte, and two sisters, Aleatha Pettit and Clara C. Garnsey, also died previously.She was born Jan. 6, 1907, on Grindstone Island, a daughter of Joseph and Clara Fowler Turcotte. She attended Grindstone Island schools and Clayton High School.
She married J. Garland Garnsey, a nationally known harness race driver on June 29, 1929, at Grindstone Island. The marriage ended in divorce.
She married Clifford C. Dwyer May 18, 1944, in the Clayton Methodist parsonage. He died Nov. 19, 1974, at the age of 61.
Mrs. Dwyer was formerly employed at Foxy's Restaurant, Fishers Landing. She had also been active in the Green Thumb environmental beautification program at Minna Anthony Common Nature Center Wellesley Island, and at one time was an
organist and soloist at the Grindstone Island Methodist Church.She was a former resident of Pelow Road.
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Obituary: CLAYTON, Feb. 27---Irene Rose Dwyer, four-day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Dwyer, Clayton, R.D., died at 6 Monday morning in the Noble Foundation Hospital of Alexandria Bay where she was born last Thursday.The infant is survived by her parents, her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Clara Turcotte, Merrick St., and her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dwyer of Clayton, R.D. Also surviving are four half-brothers and sisters, Eugene,
Shirley, Glenn, and Elizabeth Garnsey, all at home.The body has been removed to the Butts Funeral Home and will be taken to the home of the parents Wednesday evening where private prayer services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30. Rev. Thomas J. Williams, pastor of the Clayton
Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in St. Lawrence Cemetery.
Obituary (from newspaper of 6 Nov. 1975): Mrs. Genevieve Hayes, 73, of Clyde, widow of Francis Hayes, a former Watertown policeman, died at 6 this morning at Newark General Hospital.
Arrangements are with the John R. Canolsio Funeral Home, Clyde.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. George (Helen) Schaut, Stanistown, Pa.; two sons, Robert, Rahway, N.J., and Harlow, Clyde; six grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Wilfrid Ellingworth, and Miss Mary Murdock, Calcium, and two brothers, Ward
Murdock and Richard Murdock, Marine City, Mich.Born at Clayton, Sept. 2, 1902, a daughter of Robert and Alice DeLane DeLancette Murdock, she was married to Francis J. Hayes Oct. 17, 1925, at Holy Family Church. The couple resided in Watertown and later at Smithville where they
operated a general store.Mrs. Hayes was graduated from Clayton High School and she attended Northern Business College. She was employed as librarian at the F.A. Empsall store prior to her marriage.
Obituary (from newspaper of 8 Aug. 1930): CLAYTON---Captain John Robbins, 88, one of the oldest residents of the village and for a number of years a sailor on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, died about 1 this afternoon at his home
in Theresa St. after an illness of about four months. Death was attributed to the infirmities of old age. He had been confined to bed for more than two months.Captain Robbins was born June 14, 1842, on Picton Island, a son of Henry and Mary Robbins. The Island was owned by his mother. At the age of 21 Captain Robbins whose father, Captain Henry Robbins, was a sailor for a number of years,
became interested in sailing. He learned the trade of boatbuilding from his father.He had since sailed the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. For several years he sailed a scow on the St. Lawrence. He retired 20 years ago and for the last six years had made his home in Clayton. Most of his life was spent on
Grindstone Island.Like his father and grandfather, Capt. Robbins' son, Joseph C. Robbins, of Clayton, is a captain. He is in charge of the J.B.D. Edge boat.
Captain John Robbins' wife, Mrs. Lanie Rushlo Robbins, died about 18 years ago. A son, John W. Robbins, who was a retired Clayton merchant, died on Dec. 10, last, at the age of 57. Another son, Hyland Robbins, died about 14 years ago.
Surviving are the following children: Captain Joseph C. Robbins, this village; Mrs. H.L. Garnsey of Detroit, Mich.; Miss Phoebe Robbins, this village; Mrs. David Atherton of Grindstone Island and Mrs. Melver Hutchinson, this village.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Obituary (from newspaper of Friday, 28 Nov. 1980): CLAYTON---Melzer M. Dano, 76, St. Lawrence Corners, died at 1:50 this morning at Mercy Hospital, Watertown, where he had been a patient three days. He had been ill the past year.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Cummings Funeral Home, Clayton, with Rev. G. Kent Walmsley, pastor of the Clayton Baptist Church, officiating. The body will be cremated.
Donations may be made in his name to the First Baptist Church, Clayton.
He is survived by a son, Kurt, Watertown; two daughters, Mrs. Jack R. (Muriel) Pond, Watertown, and Mrs. Joseph M. (Hazel) Kinnevan, St. Charles, Mo.; 17 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren; a brother, Rawdon, Syracuse; four
sisters, Mrs. Lillian Kittle, Clayton, Mrs. Mildred Cummings, Clayton, Mrs. Leon (Marjorie) Rusho, Clayton, and Mrs. Caroline Archambault, Rochester.Two brothers and three sisters died before him.
Born Oct. 25, 1904, on Grindstone Island, a son of Ambrose and Ordelia Graham Dano, he attended Clayton schools and was a farmer and caretaker for 25 years for the late John Upham of Watertown and the Thousand Islands.
He married Oleta Potter, March 1, 1929, at Bethany Methodist Church parsonage, Watertown. Mrs. Dano, who was employed several years ago in the business office of the Watertown Daily Times, died Dec. 30, 1972, at the age of 62.
Mr. Dano served in the Navy submarine service from August 1923 to August 1927.
He was a member of Colin Couch American Legion Post 821 and was a member of Clayton Baptist Church.
Obituary (from Watertown Daily Times of Friday, 20 Jan. 1961): William C. Cummings, 60, formerly of Alexandria Bay and Watertown, died this morning in the Sunmount Veterans' Hospital, Tupper Lake, where he had been a patient for about three
years.Mr. Cummings, a veteran of World War II, had been ill for years and had been a patient in various hospitals during that period. He had undergone a number of operations.
A heart condition hastened his death.
He was born on Grenell Island, town of Clayton, July 19, 1900, a son of Thomas S. and Margaret P. Fitzgerald Cummings. He spent the early part of his life on Grindstone Island, where he attended school. In 1920 he and his parents moved
to Alexandria Bay.In his youth he was a deck hand on private summer yachts on the St. Lawrence River. Later, he followed the carpenter's trade.
In 1927 he married Mrs. Nellie Marcott Gove of Alexandria Bay, widow of Arthur Gove, in that village. She died at her home in Alexandria Bay in May, 1931, at the age of 44 years.
Mr. Cummings lived in Alexandria Bay until he entered the army for World War II service. He served for nearly five years overseas and was a corporal with the Tenth Field Hospital Corps in Ragensburg, Germany, when his father died at his
home in Copenhagen in November, 1950.Honorably discharged from the army because of disability, Mr. Cummings lived for a time in Copenhagen with his mother. She died there in February, 1956. Later, he came to this city to reside, but had been a hospital patient most of the
time since then.Surviving him are two sisters, Mrs. Lillian M. Jenkins, 326 South Hamilton St., and Mrs. William D. (Violet M.) Hughes, 422 South Hamilton St.; a brother, Thomas Cummings, R.D. Clayton, and two step-children, Robert Gove, Goose Bay, and
Mrs. Herbert R. (Madeline Gove) Millett, Alexandria Bay.