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- ALFRED TOWLES< FARMER, CEMETERY CARETAKER
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - December 3, 1998Browse Issues
A memorial service for Alfred Towles, 76, Machold Road, was scheduled for 2 p.m. today at Carpenter-Stoodley Funeral Home, Belleville, with the Rev. William Palmer, pastor of Belleville United Methodist Church, officiating. Spring burial will be in Woodside Cemetery, Belleville.
Mr. Towles was pronounced dead late Monday on arrival at the emergency room of Samaritan Medical Center, Watertown, after he was stricken at his home.
Mr. Towles owned and operated a dairy farm on Belleville-Ellisburg Road for more than 20 years. He continued to work on the farm after he sold it to his son in 1974. For the past eight years, he had been caretaker of Ellisburg Cemetery.
Born Jan. 12, 1922, in Wardwell Settlement, town of Ellisburg, son of Frank and Mabel Hess Towles, he was educated in Belleville schools and served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945 in the Pacific theater of World War II.
He married Betty Reed on Feb. 17, 1944.
Mr. Towles was a volunteer firefighter with the Ellisburg Fire Department. He enjoyed woodworking, furniture making, gardening and bowling.
In 1964, he was awarded the Jefferson County Dairy Herd Cooperative Dairymen Trophy for having the most productive herd in the county in 1963.
Surviving besides his wife are a son, Alfred "Bud" Jr., Sandy Creek; a daughter, Cynthia Ives, Watertown; seven brothers, Francis, Sandy Creek, Bert, Alexandria Bay, Donald, Watertown, Ralph, Adams, Ronald "Pete," Mannsville, and Raymond and Allen, both of Wardwell Settlement; five sisters, Rosemary Hedger, Wardwell Settlement, Shirley Gilbert, Watertown, Ruby Jackson, Pulaski, Eve Sochia, St. Regis Falls, and Ruth Peters, Rodman; five grandchildren, a great-grandson and several nieces and nephews.
A brother, John, and a sister, Iva Sayers, died before him.
Donations may be made to the Ellisburg First Responders or to a charity of one's choice.
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1922 - 1998 (76 years)
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