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- Watertown NY Daily Times - 11/23/1965
Melvin J. Bray, 52, of 804
Bradley street, an employe
of the St. Regis Paper com-
pany, died this morning at
2:35 in Mercy hospital where
he had been a patient since
Nov. 16.
Mr. Bray had been in ill
heallth since suffering a cor-
onary thrombosis four years
ago but had been able to
work most of the time until
entering the hospital.
Funeral will be Friday
morning at 11 at the Simpson
funeral home with Rev. W.
Russell Clark, pastor of As-
bury Methodist church, offici-
ating. Committal services
will be at 1:30 p.m. at the
South Edwards cemetery,,
South Edwards. Friends may
call at the funeral home this
eveningn from 7 to 10 and
Wednesday and Thursday
from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m.
Surviving Mr. Bray are
three sons, Roger L.,
165 Mechanic street; Melvin
L., Watertown, R. D. 3,, and
Lawrence G.,, serving aboard
the U.S.S. Brinkley Bass off
South Viet Nam' two
daughters, Mrs. Donald (Ha-
zel) Hewitt, Rutland Center,
and Mrs. Glenn (Clarice)
Beirman,, Herrings; two
brothers, Henry, Copenhag-
en, and Warden,, Depeyster;
a sister, Mrs. Russell (Har-
riet) McWilliams, Ogdens-
burg; a half-brother, Basil
Bray, address unknown; a
half-sister,, Mrs. Oscar Mur-
dock, Natural Bridge, and
seven grandchildren.
Mr. Bray was born April
7, 1913, at Rossie, a son of
Melvin and Hattie Coloney
Bray. He attended schools
in the Rossie vicinity. He
married Miss Dorothy Ellis.
The marriage ended in di-
vorce years ago.
Mr. Bray served in World
War II with the U.S. army.
He had been employed for a
number of years as a boiler
room operator at the Car-
thage mill of the St. Regis
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1913 - 1965 (52 years)