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- Watertown NY Daily Times - 1/4/1968
H. Howard Ammon, 69, a
retired linotype operator,
was suddenly stricken with
a heart attack while operat
ing a snowblower at his
home, 180 Ward, street, and
died, apparently instantly,
about 1:15 Wednesday afternoon.
He was pronounced
dead upon arrival by ambu
lance at the House of the
Good Samaritan about 1:35.
Mr. Ammon had just started
operating the snow removing
machine in the driveway
at the back of the home,
then turned the blower over
to a neighbor, Emery J. Len
no, 178 Ward street, to do
another errand, but collapsed
in the snow. He had been afflicted
with a heart condition.
Surviving him are a daughter,
Mrs. Robert J. (Patricia
I.) Denum, Hialeah, Fla.; a
grandson, Michael, of Hialeah;
and three sisters, Mrs.
Alice K. Jones, Rome, Mrs.
Freda M. Canfield, 180 Ward
street, with whom he lived,
and Mrs. J. Carlton /(Rose I.)
Stockwell, Sackets Harbor
road.
A brother, Eugene Ammon
of West Leyden, died in a
Utica hospital Sept. 26, 1959
at the age of 72.
Mr. Ammon was born at
West Leyden Feb. 3, 1898, a
son of George C. and Eva
Briggs Ammon. His mother
died Aug. 26, .1927 and his
father on Aug. 11, 1938.
Mr. Ammon spent the
early part of his life at West
Leyden, where he attended
school. He came to Water-
town as a young man and
learned the printing trade in
the shop of his brother-in-
law, the late H. Harry Can-
field, who operated a trade
composition b u s i n e s s at
Printing House Place, the location
of the Hungerford-Holbrook
company.
He remained in employ of
his brother-in-Jaw for jmanV;
years, retiring about 'i960.
Mr. 'Canfield,:' who retired
when he^Vsold: "the. toisliiiss
to Robert J. Briggs i n 1959,
died Jan. 19, 1960.
Mr. Ammon married Miss
Agnes S. Whalen of this city,
a native of Canada, on April
3,1929. She died here March
29, 1962, at the age of 58.
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1898 - 1968 (69 years)