Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard
Wednesday, April 18, 1962
Page 7, Column 2
Mrs. Allen, 93, Rites Tomorrow
Mrs. Genevieve Allen, 93, of 620 W. Newell St., died yesterday in a local nursing home after a long illness.
Mrs. Allen, the widow of Frederick W. Allen, was a native of the Town of Cicero, and had lived in Syracuse since 1906. She was a communicant of the South Presbyterian Church and the Cicero Center Cemetery Society.
She is survived by a son, Lavont C. Allen; a daughter, Mrs. Gladys A. Damon; a brother, Emory Chandler; a sister, Mrs. Myra Poole; six grandchildren; 12 great and two great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Greenleaf Funeral Home, 503 W. Onondaga St., the Rev. Donald Wallace officiating. Burial will be in North Syracuse Cemetery.
Friends may call 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
The son of Frederick W. Allen and Genevieve Chandler, Lavont was a life-long student. He studied and worked in engineering, architecture, drafting and loved working with his hands making things out of wood.He also enjoyed photography.
He held many patents for machinery he developed for his various employers.
Married first to Margaret Ethel Bartlett, secondly to Edith Lemler LaChot on April 20, 1929 and lastly to Agnes Loretta (Mulligan)Doolittle. HE and Margaret had five children, Lucy Genevieve, John Frederick, Charles Robert, Margaret Jane and Donald Irving.
Syracuse (NY) Herald-Journal
Monday evening, September 25, 1939
Page 6, Column 4
Clinton E. Wright Funeral Services Set for Tomorrow
Funeral services for Clinton E. Wright, 72, retired New York Central Railroad conductor, who died yesterday morning at his home, 304 East Colvin Street, will be conducted at 2 P. M. tomorrow at the Fairchild & Meech funeral rooms, 500 West Onondaga Street. The Rev. John E. Miles of Tabernacle Baptist Church will officiate. Burial will be in North Syracuse.
Born in Cicero, Mr. Wright taught school there when 18 years old. He had been a railroad conductor 40 years and was a member of the Order of Railroad Conductors. He was also a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Grace Allen Wright; two daughters, Mrs. W. H. Baldwin of Westfield, N. J., and Mrs. Charles G. Hanna of Syracuse; a son, Charles E. Wright; two grandsons, Richard Wright Baldwin of Westfield and William Eugene Wright; two granddaughters, Mrs. Edward R. Carson of Cambridge, Mass., and Shirley Louise Baldwin of Westfield.