Notes:

Boonville NY Herald - 12/14/1977

WEST LEYDEN -
Raymond G. Beha. 84. a lifelong
resident of West Leyden,
died on Sunday evening Dec.
11. at Huntington Hospital,
Huntington. Long Island Mr.
Beha had been hospitalized
since Nov. 30. after suffering a
stroke.
Born in West Leyden on
April 27. 1893. he was a son of
John and Mary Kotary Beha.
He was graduated from Boon-
ville High School and the
Boonville Teachers Training
Class. Thereafter he taught in
the area schools. During
World War I Mr. Beha served
with the U.S.Army in France.
After being discharged from
the Army, he settled on the
family farm on the Mud Lake
Road in the Town of Lewis.
After selling the farm in 1946,
the Beha Family moved to
West Leyden. For a time Mr.
Beha served as a substitute
mail carrier from the West
Leyden Post Office. After
leaving the farm, Mr. Beha,
was employed at Griffiss Air
Force Base in Rome. He
retired a number of years ago.
Mr. Beha married Clara
Tine on sept. 20, 1920 in West
Leyden. She died on Jan. 18,
1949. He married Margaret
Entwistle on April 27, 1948 in
utica. She died on Aug. 9,
1968. Mr. Beha had spent the
past few winters with his
daughter, Miss HelenBeha,
at Huntington, Long Island,
and the summers at his home
in West Leyden. He was a
member of St. Mary's Church
the West Leyden Fire Depart-
ment and the Charles J. Love Post American Legion.
Besides his daughter,
Helen, Mr. Beha is survived
by two other daughters, Mrs.
Raymond (Katherine) St. John
Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Robert
(Margaret Mary) Aloan, Syra-
cuse; a foster son, Harold
Kessler, Holland Patent; 18
grandchildren; 24 great
grandchildren; two brothers,
William J. Beha, West
Leyden, Henry Beha, Colum-
bus, Ohio, and one sister,
Mrs. Turance Nabors, Seattle,
Washington.
Funeral services will be
held on Thursday, Dec. 15, at
9:45 a.m. at the Trainor
Funeral Home, Boonville, and
at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary's
Church, West Leyden, where
Rev. George Roskwitalski
OFM Conv., pastor of the
church, will officiate. Inter-
ment will be made in St.
Mary's Cemetery. Friends
may call at the funeral home
on Wednesday from 2 until 4
and 7 until 9 p.m. The Rosary
will be recited on Wednesday
at 7:30 p.m. The West Leyden
Firemen will meet at the
funeral home on Wednesday
at 8 p.m.

Raymond married TINE, Clara on 10 Sep 1920 in West Leyden, Lewis County, NY. Clara was born about 1891 in New York; died on 18 Jan 1948. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. BEHA, Margaret Mary was born on 3 Sep 1920 in New York; died in Jul 1989 in West Leyden, Lewis County, NY.
2. BEHA, Katherine A was born about 1924 in New York.
3. BEHA, Helen I was born on 12 Feb 1926 in New York; died on 14 Sep 1996 in Huntington, Suffolk County, NY.

Raymond married ENTWISTLE, Margaret C on 27 Apr 1948 in Utica, Oneida County, NY. Margaret (daughter of ENTWISTLE, Thomas and BEHA, Margaret) was born on 24 Jul 1896 in Utica, Oneida County, NY; died on 9 Aug 1968 in Lowville, Lewis County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Waterville NY Times - 2/14/1952

Ambrose Beha and family were
called to West Leyden the past
week by the death of his father,
John Beha. The funeral was held
on Monday morning

John married KOTARY, Mary on 1 Oct 1888 in Mohawk Hill, Lewis County, NY. Mary (daughter of KOTARY, Joseph and SEELMAN, Adeline) was born on 14 Mar 1870 in West Leyden, Lewis County, NY; died on 3 May 1954 in Constableville, Lewis County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Utica NY Daily Press

WEST LEYDEN -- Mrs. Mary
Kotary Beha, 84, widow of John
Beha, died May 3, 1954 in sun-
set Nursing Hospital, Constable-
ville. She had been in ill health
for the past year and seriously
ill for one week.
She was born near Weat Ley-
den, March 14, 1870, daughter
of Joseph and Adeline Seelman
Kotary. She spent nearly all her
life at West Leyden and attended
local schools.. She also attended
St. Michael's Sisters School at
Mohawk Hill.
She was married to John Beha
on October 1, 1888, at St. Mi-
chael's Church, Mohawk Hill, by
the Rev. Joseph Welant. The
couple purchased the Beha home-
stead farm near West Leyden
and lived there until 1920. In
1923, they purchased their home
in West Leyden village where
they had sines lived.
The couple celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary on
October 1, 1938. A High Mass
was celebrated by the Rev. B. A.
O'Connell at S t Mary's Church,
West Leyden. On October 1, 1948,
the couple celebrated their 60th
wedding anniversary with an
open house at their home here.
Mr. Beha died Feb. 8, 1952
Mrs. Beha was a communicant
of St. Mary's Church, West Ley
den, and a member of its Altar-
Rosary Society. She was a gold
star member of West Leyden
Grange 620. She had held every
office in th£ grange excepting
master.
Surviving are five sons. Ambrose
L. Beha, Watervule; Henry
F. Beha, Columbus, Ohio; James
a. Beha, Mohawk, superintend-
ent of Frankfort schools; Ray-
mond G. and William J. Beha
both of West Leyden; one adopt-
ed daughter, Mrs. Theresa Na-
bors, Seattle, Wash.; 19 grand-
chidren, 35 great-grandchildren;
one brother, Benjamin Kotary,
Boonville; several nieces and
nephews.
The funeral will be at 9:15
Thursday from the Trainor Fu-
neral Home, Boonville, and at
10 from St. Mary's Church, West
Leyden, where a requiem high
Mass will be celebrated by the
Rev. Aloysius Isele. Burial will
be in St. Mary's Cemetery, West
Leyden.

Notes:

Boonville NY Herald - 10/18/1888

West Leyden, Oct. -17

John Beha and Mary Kotary were re-
cently married. They are now keeping
house about a mile from this village-at
the Beha residence

Matthew + WILBERT, Mary Anna. Mary was born about 1838 in Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph + SEELMAN, Adeline. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]