Obituary:
Joint services for Margaret Carson, Charles Wright
Joint services for Margaret Bell Carson and Charles Eugene Wright, who were related by marriage, will be 2 p.m. Friday at Fairchild & Meech DeWitt Chapel. Pastor Edward A. Robson of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Syracuse will officiate. Burial will be in Oakwood-Morningside Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home after the services.
Mrs. Carson, 100, died Saturday at a local nursing home. She was a former resident of Goodrich Avenue. Mrs. Carson was born in New Brighton, Pa. She lived in Pittsburgh, Pa. before moving to Syracuse in 1950. Her husband, Edwin R. Sr., died in 1978.
Mrs. Carson was a graduate of Beaver College and taught high school history in Beaver Falls, Pa., before becoming a history teacher at Beaver College.
Mrs. Carson was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh and was active in its foreign missionary program.
Mr. Wright, 96, died Friday in Virginia Beach, Va. He was a native of North Syracuse and also lived in Syracuse before moving to Virginia Beach in 1984. Mr. Wright retired in 1965 as the owner of an audiometry business in Syracuse, which he operated since World War II. He previously was a building contractor.
Mr. Wright was a 1915 graduate of Syracuse University. He was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Syracuse, the Syracuse Rotary Club and the American Heritage Society and a former president of the Syracuse chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. He also was a volunteer at the Rotary's Camp Goodwill.
The two are survived by two grandsons, William H. Carson III of Virginia Beach and Richard Wright Carson of Atlanta; and four great-grandchildren.
Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
Syracuse, New York
The Herald-Journal
Wednesday, February 8, 1989
Page B4, Column 2.
Syracuse (NY) Herald-Journal
Monday, March 7, 1977
Page 22, Column 3
Mrs. Norton; librarian instructor
Mrs. Anita Wright Norton, 82, of 205 Brookford Road, died yesterday at Community-General Hospital. She was a teacher of high school library science in Phelps, Fort Ann and Frankfort.
Mrs. Norton graduated from Syracuse University, College of Fine Arts and had a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in library science. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, Asa Danforth Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; past president of Syracuse Colony, Society of New England Women; and past president of Daughters of 1812 and past president of Ann Judson Circle of the United Baptist Church.
Mrs. Norton is survived by her husband, Karl B. Norton; a stepson, Karl B. Norton, Jr.; a brother, Charles E. Wright; a nephew, Richard Wright Baldwin of Cranford, N.J.; and two nieces, Mrs. Shirley Baldwin Osborne of Weston, Conn. and Mrs. Martha Wright Carson of Cazenovia.
Services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Fairchild and Meech Funeral Chapel, the Rev. H. Orland Payne officiating.
Burial will be in North Syracuse Cemetery.
Calling hours are 2 to 4 p.m. tomorrow.
Contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, Onondaga County Unit.
Mrs. Ione W. Baldwin, wife of Wilbert H. Baldwin of 145 Effingham place, died last Thursday in Muhlenberg Hospital, Plainfield after a brief illness.
She was born in Syracuse, N.Y. and had been a resident of Westfield for more than 30 years. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and was active in its Woman's Association; a member of the Westfield Woman's Club; the Westfield Musical Club; and had been an active member and past treasurer of Alpha Chi Omega Soroity.
Surviving besides her husband are a son, Richard W. of Cranford; a daughter, Mrs. Robert J. Osborn of Fairfield, Conn.; two grandchildren; a brother, C. Eugene Wright, and a sister, Mrs. Anita C. Hanna, both of Syracuse.
Funeral services were held in Gray's Funeral Home Saturday morning with the Rev. George V. Gardner, associate minister of the Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment was in Fairview Cemetery.
Obituary can be found in Westfield Leader, August 26, 1954, page 4.
From wikipedia.com:
Charles George Hanna (1889–1942) was a politician from the United States. He was the forty-first mayor of Syracuse, New York (Republican, 1926–1929) and largely responsible for bringing air travel to the Syracuse Area. He acquired an airfield in Camillus, NY and renamed it Syracuse Municipal Airport in 1927. After World War II, the airport couldn't keep up with demand, so the city took over the former Mattydale Bomber Base and renamed it Syracuse Hancock International Airport.
Obituary:
Syracuse, New York
The Herald-Journal newspaper
Thursday, December 17, 1942
Page 20, Column 2
C. G. Hanna Funeral Set For Saturday
Civic Leaders Will Be Honorary Bearers for Former Mayor
The funeral of Charles G. Hanna, former mayor of Syracuse, will be at 2 P.M. Saturday at the A. C. Schumacher funeral home, 366 West Onondaga Street. The Rev. Dr. Calvin M. Thompson, Jr., pastor of Delaware Street Baptist Church will conduct the services. Civic leaders and public officials will be honorary bearers. Burial will be in Morningside Cemetery.
Mr. Hanna was found dead yesterday morning in his bedroom adjoining his offices in the Lincoln National Bank & Trust Company Building.
Mr. Hanna, long eminent in public and community life in Syracuse, had been sleeping at his office for some time. Dr. Harry L. Gilmore had attended Mr. Hanna Tuesday night when he complained of pain. At 8:45 A. M. Wednesday, W. J. Demong, building superintendent, hearing Mr. Hanna's radio, knocked on his door and called Dr. Gilmore. Mr. Hanna evidently had risen from bed and then been overcome by a heart attack.
Mr. Hanna, 53, was twice mayor of Syracuse, serving from 1926 to 1930. He was engaged in several automobile business enterprises and later was Ford representative in Syracuse. Subsequently he was a commission broker and later sales representative for several companies.
He was an aviator in the first World War and was honorably discharged as a lieutenant. He was twice married. His first wife, the former Miss Florence Bresee, died in 1928. In 1934 he married Miss Anna Irene Wright.
Besides his widow he leaves his mother, Mrs. C. Fred Hanna, a daughter by his first marriage, Mrs. Frank Pearce of Jordan, and a sister, Mrs. Reese Brower.