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- Lyle Marvin Whaley - February 17, 1924 - September 10, 1951. Militarily Service World War II: Enlisted February 15, 1943 at Syracuse, New York as a Private in the United States Army; Served in Company C, 322' Engineer Battalion; Honorably discharged March 23, 1946 with rank of Technician 5th Grade. Son of Harry Grover Cleveland and Edith May Doane Whaley. Husband of Norma Jean Cole. Married October 6, 1946. [Note: Norma Jean Cole died March 26, 2012 in Syracuse, New York, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery at Orwell, New York with her second husband, Robert L. Coffin. ]
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, September 13, 1951 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Tragic Accident Near Oswego Takes Lives of Two Richland Men - Two persons from this community were killed and five others injured in a three-car accident on Route 104 Monday night about 9 p.m. seven and one-half miles east of Oswego. Clinton A. Nemier, 70, of Centerville and Lyle Whaley, 27, of Richland died on the way to the Oswego city hospital where the injured were also taken. The injured were: Mrs. Norma Whaley, 21, wife of Lyle Whaley, and a passenger in the Whaley car, cuts about the face and head; William Hamilton, 21, of Fulton, cuts to head and left leg Victor Vrego, 25, Fulton, cuts of the left arm and nose; Joseph Musealino, 18, facial cuts; and Donald E. Hewitt, 18, Fulton, fracture of the jaw. Uninjured in the accident, which occurred on the hill crest west of the Jarett road and the former Gould race track, were Mrs. Constance H. Bond and Jean Mitchell, both of Oswego. According to the report of Trooper Jack M. Doyle of the state police substation at Minetto, Hamilton was driving west on Route 104 and started to pass the westbound Bond car on the hill crest. Hamilton collided head-on with Whaley's eastbound car. Hamilton claimed to Trooper Doyle that he was blinded by the approaching headlights. The Hamilton car came to a stop in the center of the highway and the Whaley car continued 80 feet and overturned on its right side on the south side of the highway. Nemier was pinned under the Whaley car which police said had to be raised to remove his body. Whaley was in the car with his wife as passenger. Whaley and Nemier suffered fractured skulls. Mr. and Mrs. Whaley, accompanied by Nemier, were returning home from Oswego hospital where they had visited Mrs. Whaley's grandmother, Mrs. Mary Squires, of Centerville, when the accident happened. Mrs. Squires was hospitalized as the result of an auto accident in Richland on August 29 when she suffered injuries. Surviving Mr. Whaley besides his wife, Mrs. Norma Cole Whaley, who is still in the Oswego hospital in a serious condition, are three children, Larry, 5, Linda Marie, 3 and Lyle, Jr., 2: his mother, Mrs. Edith Whaley, Richland; six brothers, Orla and Archie of Richland, Robert of Utica, Lloyd of Ellisburg, Dayton of North Syracuse and Oscar Whaley of Syracuse; and two sisters, Mrs. Enos (Bessie) Wagoner, Mattydale and Anna Whaley of Syracuse. He was born in Richland February 17, 1924, a son of the late Harry Whaley and Mrs. Edith Doane Whaley. He was married to Miss Norma Cole on October 6, 1946. Receiving his early education in the Richland school, he served three years in the U. S. Army in Germany in World War II. Since his return from service he has been employed by the New York Central R. R. working out of Williamstown. Funeral services will be held at the home of Archie Whaley in Richland, Friday at 2 p.m. and from the Methodist church at 2:30 with the Rev. Kenneth L. Combs officiating. Military honors will be accorded by Robert Edwards Post, No. 358, with burial in the Richland cemetery. Funeral services for Mr. Nemier will be held Friday morning at 10:30 am. from the Foster funeral home in Park Street with interment at Wesleyan cemetery, Sandy Creek Surviving are one brother, Myron Nemier of Sandy Creek; and four grandchildren, Mrs. James (Ivah) Goodwin, Pulaski, Mary and William Woodruff, Rome and Elsie Nemier, Pierrepont Manor. Mr. Nemier was born in Boylston, March 28, 1881, a son of George and Dennis Wells Nemier. He was a carpenter and blacksmith by trade and was employed by the New York Central railroad for many years. Most of his life had been spent in this vicinity.
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1924 - 1951 (27 years)