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- CALVIN MCCONNELL
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - August 24, 2008
F. Calvin "Kelly" McConnell, 83, formerly of County Route 69, died Friday in Oswego Hospital, where he had been a patient since Aug. 15.
Mr. McConnell operated a dairy farm in the town of Rodman from 1945 to 1984, when he moved into the hamlet of Rodman. He worked part-time for the town of Rodman from 1958 until 1962, when he became a full-time employee. He was elected Rodman town highway superintendent and served until his retirement in 1993. In 2003, he and his wife, Shirley, moved to Oswego to live with their daughter and her husband Janette and Terry Elmer.
Born Jan. 15, 1925, in Sackets Harbor, son of Frederick and Edith Calhoun McConnell, he spent his childhood on the Ashlands in Three Mile Bay and attended General Brown Central School.
He married Shirley Corbin on Nov. 9, 1944, at her parents' home in Watertown with the Rev. Merritt W. Updike officiating.
Mr. McConnell was a member of the New York State Highway Superintendents Association and had enjoyed playing on local baseball teams and ice skating.
Mr. McConnell was an avid hunter, enjoyed bowling, fishing and playing the harmonica and in later years enjoyed golf, solving Sudoku and crossword puzzles and Nintendo Wii bowling.
Surviving besides his wife and the Elmers are three other daughters and their husbands, Cheryl and Francis Lyon, Watertown, Elizabeth and Mark Sullivan, Bridgeport, N.J., and Janet and Phillip Fay, Sackets Harbor; three sons and their wives, Timothy and Marela, Daniel and Linda and Joseph and Cindy, all of Rodman; two brothers, Melzer, Mexico, and Leland, Lomita, Calif.; two sisters, Wealtha Prior, Watertown, and Aletha Stewart, Marathon, 21 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.
Six sisters and five brothers died before him.
The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Carpenter-Stoodley Funeral Home, Belleville.
Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.
Calling hours will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 6725 Lyons St., Box 7, East Syracuse, N.Y. 13057.
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