Robert Lewis Dye

Robert Lewis Dye

Male 1922 - 1994  (71 years)


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  • Name Robert Lewis Dye  [1, 2
    Birth 22 Dec 1922  Edmeston, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Death 24 Oct 1994 
    Person ID I80435  Stewartsny
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

    Father Clarence Lorenzo Dye,   b. 23 Sep 1892, Litchfield, Herkimer, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1959, Ilion, Herkimer, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Bessie Pearl Crandall,   b. 20 Nov 1890, West Edmeston, Otsego, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Oct 1957 (Age 66 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F27133  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Earlene Unknown 
    Family ID F27089  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

    Family 2 Ruth Mae Denio,   b. 8 Apr 1930   d. 21 Nov 1975 (Age 45 years) 
    Marriage 24 Sep 1948  Richland, Oswego, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Robert Lawrence Dye,   b. 18 Jan 1953, Oswego, Oswego County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Dec 2019, Oswego County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. John O Dye
    Family ID F27088  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

  • Notes 
    • FUNERAL SET THURSDAY FOR ROBERT L. DYE, 71
      Newspaper October 26, 1994 | Watertown Daily Times (NY)

      The funeral for Robert L. Dye, 71, of 813 Franklin St., will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the D.L. Calarco Funeral Home with the Rev. Cliff Bennett officiating. Burial will be in Brookside Cemetery.

      Mr. Dye died at 5:11 p.m. Monday in the emergency room of the Samaritan Medical Center.

      Calling hours are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Donations may be made to the American Heart Association.

      Surviving are his wife, Earlene "Pat"; two sons, John O., Pulaski, and Robert L., address unknown; three grandchildren; a brother, Leo, New Berlin; four sisters, Bonnie Lumas, Ilion, Winnie Hiltz, Little Falls, Josephine Mead, Mohawk, and Mrs. Everett (Betty) Fralick, Herkimer; and several nieces and nephews.

      Four brothers, Jerry, Donald, Russell and James, died before him.

      Born Dec. 22, 1922, in Mohawk, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Bessie Dye, he attended Mohawk schools. He served in the Army during World War II from 1942 to 1945 in the Pacific theater of operations.

      A lineman for New York Central, Penn Central and Conrail railroads, Mr. Dye retired in 1983 after 38 years of service. He lived in Mohawk until moving to Watertown in 1957.

      He married Ruth DeNio on Sept. 24, 1948, in Pulaski. She died Nov. 21, 1975. Then he married Earlene W. Bennett on April 24, 1976, in Watertown.

      Mr. Dye was a member of Elks Lodge 496 and Brownville American Legion Post 588 and was a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1400.

  • Sources 
    1. [S52] Facebook, (Name: Facebook; Location: http://www.facebook.com/;), Facebook update - - 03/17/2015.
      http://www.facebook.com/100000958663809

    2. [S184] Ancestry.com, New York, State Census, 1925, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 01; Assembly District: 01; City: Winfield; County: Herkimer; Page: 9.