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- MARTIN A. BRANDT - CONSTRUCTION WORKER, FARMERShow Details
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - April 20, 2004Browse Issues
Martin Alfred "Al" Brandt, 79, of 172 S. Daysville Road, town of Richland, died Monday at his home.
Mr. Brandt worked construction for many years out of Laborers Union Local 214, Oswego, working on various projects in the Northeast, including the Nine Mile Point nuclear power project near Oswego and the construction of Interstate 81. He also operated a farm. He retired from construction work in 1967.
Born June 15, 1924, in Camden, son of Martin Adolf and Emma Hendrickson Brandt, he attended Pulaski Academy and served in the Army during World War II, with duty in the Pacific theater, mainly in the Fiji Islands.
He was a life member of the Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358, Pulaski, and the Cable Trail Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8534, Lacona.
Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Walter (Dorothy) Vrooman, Mexico. Also surviving are Mrs. Eugene (Susanne G.) Breezee, Mexico, and Jeanine L. Crandall, Pulaski, to whom he was a surrogate father.
His companion of 40 years, Margaret Murray, died Jan. 18, 1996.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Foster-Hax Funeral Home with the Rev. William O' Neill, pastor of First Baptist Church of Mexico, officiating. Burial will be in Mexico Cemetery.
A calling hour will be from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
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1924 - 2004 (79 years)