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- RETIRED ELECTRICIAN CLYDE SHAMPINE DIES
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - July 4, 1993Browse Issues
Clyde W. Shampine, 88, formerly of 316 S. Clinton St., retired St. Regis Paper Co. electrician, died Saturday morning in the Hallmark Nursing Centre, where he had been a resident since September.
A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Rita's Catholic Church, Deferiet (due to renovation work at St. James Church in Carthage), with the Rev. Eugene A. DelConte, assistant pastor of both parishes, officiating. Burial will be in New St. James Cemetery.
Calling hours will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Bossuot-Lundy Funeral Home, where a wake service will be conducted at 8 Monday evening. Contributions may be made to the Arthritis Foundation or St. James Church building fund.
Surviving are a son, David C., Watertown, staff writer for The Watertown Daily Times; a daughter, Bette A., Carthage, teacher at Harrisville Central School; two grandsons, and a sister, Myrtle M. Shampine, Carthage.
Three brothers, Donald G., Charles M. and Douglas B., and five sisters, Lillian Reynolds, Agnes Shampine, Frances Spicer, Mary Irey and Hilda Belle Shampine, died previously.
He was born Dec. 12, 1904, in Antwerp, a son of Merton C. and Minnie Frawley Shampine. He graduated from West Carthage High School in 1925 and from Rochester Mechanics Institute, a forerunner of Rochester Institute of Technology, in 1928.
He married Leona B. Perry of Carthage Sept. 4, 1938, at St. James Church rectory with the Rev. Edward B. May officiating. She died April 10, 1974, at the age of 64.
Mr. Shampine was an electrician at the former St. Regis Paper Co., working at the Deferiet, West Carthage and Harrisville mills. He retired in 1969.
He served as election custodian for the town of Champion for many years, and was a former member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, Knights of Columbus and West Carthage Volunteer Fire Department.
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1904 - 1993 (88 years)
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