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- Newspaper Obituary - (date unavailable) 1970 Sandy Creek News - Sandy Creek, New York - Carroll Caufield, ex-fire chief, 64, dies in hospital - After a long illness, Carroll Caufield, 64, died Thursday, November 19, 1970 at the House of the Good Samaritan in Watertown. A native of Oswegatchie, he had been a resident of the local community for the past 35 years. He was a retired member of the Sandy Creek Fire Department and a former fire chief. He was also a member of the Oswego County Past Fire Chief Association and belonged to the Sandy Creek Fish and Game club. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Beulah Smith Caufield; five sons, James of Syracuse, H. Robert of Brewerton, Fred of Sandy Creek, Arnold and Peter Caufield of Lacona; eight daughters, Mrs. Louis Wilder, of Pulaski, Mrs. Ernest Dana of Sandy Creek, Mrs. Teresa Surprise of Syracuse, Mrs. Benjamin Eggleston of Caughdenoy, Mrs. Gilbert Ridgeway of Lacona, Verna Kay Caufield of Lacona, Mrs. Cornelius Donahue of Lacona, and Mrs. Richard Ford of Red Creek; 39 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, one brother, Vernon Caufield of Long Island. Mr. Caufield was the son of the late Fred and Sarah Kellogg Caufield. He spent his early years in the Pulaski area. He married Beulah Smith May 29, 1926 in St. John's Rectory, Pulaski. He was a former employee of the Blount Lumber Company in Lacona. His funeral was held Saturday afternoon at the O'Brien funeral home in Sandy Creek, the Rev. Ivan Greenfield, pastor of the Sandy Creek United Methodist church officiating. Burial was in Riverside cemetery, Pulaski. Uniformed members of the Sandy Creek fire department called at the funeral home Friday evening in a body, in tribute to their former chief. Members of the fire department were bearers at his funeral. They were: Fire Chief Ralph Wood, Herbert Miller, Howard Miller, Mark Harvey, Francis Mitchell and William Wheeler.
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