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- Funeral Service For Glenn Upton To Be Saturday
Glenn Edward Upton, 56, son of Mrs. Etta Near Upton, Box Street, Pulaski, and the late Charles B. Upton, succumbed Monday, December 15, 1952 at 2:30 p. m. in the University Hospital in Syracuse. He had been in poor health for the last few years but had continued his work. Sunday at 2:30 a. m. he suffered a stroke and was taken to the hospital in the Foster ambulance. There he never regained consciousness.
Mr. Upton was a native of Pulaski, born on February 18, 1896 on the family farm which was his present home. He was a graduate of Pulaski High school and of Cornell University. He enlisted in the army in World War I and served overseas.
After completing his duty in the army he became an instructor in Amherst College Agricultural Department in Massachusetts. For years he was a salesman working in the New England States.
In 1928 he married Edith Roth of Attica, N. Y. In 1929 he returned to Pulaski and began an implement business on Salina Street. The following year he moved back to his old home on the Scenic Highway.
Member of Organizations
Mr. Upton was a member of the Sandy Creek Methodist Church, the Pulaski Grange, Farmer's Union, and was a Director of the Ontario Milk Producers Cooperative in Mexico. He had been a member of the Masonic Lodge in Amherst, Massachusetts for the past 27 years and had recently affiliated with the Pulaski Lodge 414, F & A M.
Surviving besides his wife, Mrs. Edith Roth Upton and his mother, Mrs. C.B. Upton, are two sons, Charles R. Upton, Stationed in Korea and Lawrence A. Upton, a student at Syracuse University and a grandson; also two sisters, Mildred Upton of Pulaski, Edna Upton Sullivan, Hempstead, Long Island, and a brother, HaroldUpton of Pulaski.
Funeral to Be Saturday
Funeral services will be held at the Foster funeral home on Saturday at 2:00 with Rev. Winton H. Halsted of Sandy Creek Methodist church officiating. They are delayed awaiting the possible arrival of his son from Korea. The pallbearers are Leigh Pratt, James Sanderson, Albert Crandall, Henry Taylor, Van Balcom and Earl Tryon.
Source: Sandy Creek News, Dec 18, 1952
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