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- Class of 1942 PACS
JAMES CLEVELAND, VETERAN, EX-MAILMAN, DIES AT 63
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - April 7, 1988
James M. Cleveland, 63, Pulaski, died Tuesday morning at his winter home in Titusville, Fla.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Park United Methodist Church, with Rev. Earl M. Smith officiating. Burial with full military honors will be in Pulaski Cemetery.
Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Foster-Hax Funeral Home, 7385 Park St. Memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association or the Robert Edwards Post 358, American Legion.
Surviving are his wife, Marjorie; two sons, David, Pulaski, and Douglas, Homestead, Fla.; two grandchildren; his mother, Alice Cleveland, Pulaski, and a sister, Marilyn Mathison, Pulaski.
Born in Pulaski on Dec. 6, 1924, a son of Nathan and Alice Babcock Cleveland, he was graduated from Pulaski Academy and Central School in 1942.
He married Marjorie Shaw on July 17, 1948, in the Community Baptist Church, Binghamton.
Mr. Cleveland served in the Army Air Force from March 1943 until December 1945. He was later employed as a rural mail carrier by the Pulaski Post Office from 1955 until retiring in 1985.
He was a member of Park United Methodist Church and a life member of Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358, having held all elective offices in the organization. He was also a past county commander, a past New York State district commander and a past New York State department vice commander.
Mr. Cleveland was a member of the New York State Rural Letter Carriers Association and a past president and vice president of the association. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post and the Forty-Eight Club.
He was also a life member of the National Rifle Association, a member of the New York State Pistol Association, a charter member of the Pulaski Lions Club, a member of the American Association of Retired Persons and an instructor of the Salmon River Junior Rifle Club.
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1924 - 1988 (63 years)
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