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- Utica NY Observer - 10/12/1975
SAUQUOIT - Mrs: Laura
Alton, 63, of-Sulphur Springs
Road, proprietor of the Alton
Diner, died yesterday in the
St. Luke's Memorial Hospital
after a brief illness.
She was born in Canada;
daughter-of Bruce and Elsie
Newman Gorham. She came
to this country and to Poland
as a child and attended
school in Poland and Morris-
ville.
She was. married To John
Alton in Poland in 1933 The
couple came to Sauquoit in
1939. Mrs.- Alton has also been
employed by the Alexander
Hamilton Inn. Clinton and
Hart's Hill Inn.
Mrs. Alton was a member
of the Paris United Church of
Christ, and belonged to the
Paris Grange. She was a past
lecturer of - the Panoma
Grange.
Besides her husband she
leaves two sons; Alfred of
Hilton and Thomas of Clark
Mills; five daughters; Miss
"Amy" Alton, Washington
Mills; Mrs. James (Kath-
erine) Moore, Clinton; Mrs.
John (Margaret) Roselli,
New Hartford;, Mrs,. John
(Ruth; Ivancic. Sauquoit;
Mrs. Edward (Prisilla) Dragulski,
of Oneida; a brother,
Peter Gorham, Poland; and a
sister Mrs. Ella Lehrnann,
Norman, Okla.
The funeral will be Monday
at the convenience of the
family from the J. Donald
Smith Funeral Home, Sau-
quoit Cremation will take
place in Waterville.
There are no calling
hours.
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