Richard John Fargo

1938 - 1999  (60 years)

• Name	Richard John Fargo  [1]
  Birth	15 Dec 1938	New York   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Sep 1999
  Person ID	I75320	Stewartsny
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2025

  
  

  Father	Richard John Lawrence Fargo,   b. 29 Nov 1912, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada d. 8 Mar 1958, Henderson, Jefferson, New York, USA (suicide) (Age 45 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Erma Eleanor Green,   b. 13 May 1915, New York d. May 1994 (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F25340	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann L. Barney
  Children	1. Vicki Fargo  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Joseph Fargo  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Valerie Fargo  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Virginia Fargo  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Jeffrey Fargo  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Jack Fargo  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F25283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2025

  
  

• Notes

  RICHARD J. FARGO FARMER, BUS DRIVER Newspaper September 22, 1999 | Watertown Daily Times (NY) Page: 29 | Section: Obituaries 274 Words | Readability: Lexile: 1060, grade level(s): 7 8 9 Read News Document Listen with webReader The funeral for Richard J. Fargo, 60, of 7180 County Route 178, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Carpenter-Stoodley Funeral Home, Belleville, with the Rev. William Palmer, pastor of Henderson United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Ellisburg Cemetery. Mr. Fargo died Monday morning at his home. Dr. Joven G. Kuan, deputy medical examiner, ruled the death a suicide. Born Dec. 15, 1938, in Henderson, son of Richard John and Erma E. Green Fargo, he was a 1956 graduate of Henderson Central School and served in the Air Force from 1956 to 1958. He married Ann L. Barney on July 11, 1959, in Queen of Heaven Catholic Church. That year, the couple settled in Henderson, where he owned and operated a dairy farm until retiring in 1989. He became a school bus driver in 1972 for Henderson Central School and was still employed at Belleville Henderson Central School, Belleville, at the time of his death. He enjoyed hunting and fishing. Surviving besides his wife are four daughters, Mrs. Harold (Virginia) Nelson, Mannsville, Vicki M. Sharratt, Destin, Fla., Mrs. Kurt (Valarie) Gehrke, Ellisburg, and Veronica M. Smith, Watertown; three sons, Jeffrey, Henderson, Jack, Ellisburg, and Joseph, Adams; four sisters, Joanne Cartier, Central Square, Mrs. Charles (Jane) Fernandes, Adams, Mary Beardsley, South Carolina, and Mrs. John (Dale) Brett, Sodus; three brothers, Raymond R., Sandy Creek, Louis E., Rochester, and Ronald J., Henderson; nine grandchildren, and nieces and nephews. Two sisters, Gloria Gracey and Gale Fargo, died before him. Donations may be made to Belleville Henderson Central School's Dollars for Scholars program for an FFA student, in care of the school, P.O. Box 158, Belleville, N.Y. 13611.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1304] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Henderson, Jefferson, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02544; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 23-30.