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- JAMES W. LACELLE, REDFIELD, DIES AT AGE 79
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - April 12, 1995
James W. LaCelle, 79, County Route 17, died Tuesday at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital, Syracuse.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Foster-Hax Funeral Home, Pulaski, with the Rev. Elizabeth Mowry, pastor of Park United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Greenboro Cemetery.
Calling hours are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Donations may be made to the Redfield Volunteer Fire Department.
Surviving are his wife, M. Joyce; a son, James E. LaCelle, Mexico; two daughters, Barbara Ward, Hagerstown, Md., and Karen L. Cole, Earlville; two stepdaughters, Sally and Debbie Montieth, both of Redfield; 12 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; a brother, Gerald "Bun" LaCelle, North Syracuse; 12 half-brothers and half-sisters; and several nieces and nephews.
Born Nov. 6, 1915, in Pulaski, son of Clyde and Goldie Stowell LaCelle, he graduated from Pulaski Academy High School in 1933 and attended Cornell University, Ithaca.
Mr. LaCelle served in the Army from 1935 to 1938. He returned to the service in 1941, and served in the Pacific theater before leaving the service again in 1945.
He married Anna Snyder Crandall. She died in 1955. On Jan. 28, 1961, he married Margaret Yerdon.
Mr. LaCelle was a rural mail carrier for 44 years for the Williamstown post office. He retired in 1979.
He was a charter member of the Redfield Volunteer Fire Department and a member of the Oswego County Republican Party. Mr. LaCelle was a 10-year member of the Tug Hill Commission and a member of the Redfield Town Council for 12 years. He was also a member of the Retired Postal Workers Association.
Mr. LaCelle worked with the summer recreation program in Redfield.
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