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OBITUARIES Jan. The 30, Evening 1984 Press Binghamton, N.Y. Death Notices Anthony (Tony) Nagle of Endicott Anthony (Tony) Nagle, 77, of 623 West Wendell St. Endicott, passed away after a brief illness at Ideal Hospital Saturday evening. He is survived by his wife, Susan Nagle, Endicott; one daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Salvatore Prudenzano, Apalachin; one son, Stephen Nagle; two grandchildren, Susan Overbay, Virginia and Peter Prudenzano, Apalachin; three sisters, Lilly Matisi, Endicott, Julia Murray, Conklin and Frances LaViola, Georgia; three brothers, Cecil Popolo, Binghamton, Rudy Popolo, CT and Donald Popolo, Binghamton; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Coleman Daniels Funeral Home, 300 East Main Street, Endicott and 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church where a Mass of Christian Burial will be offered. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Johnson City. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

There will be a prayer service at the funeral home 7 p.m. Monday. In lieu of flowers, those wishing may make contributions to the Union Volunteer Emergency Squad, P.0. Box 126, Endwell, NY. Dean H.

Markoff of Binghamton Dean H. Markoff, 57 of Cornell Ct. died Sunday morning at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital. He is survived by his wife Norma (Frey) Markoff, Binghamton; one son Jeffrey D. Markoff, Binghamton; three sisters, Mrs.

John (Maxine) Gilbert, Clayville, N.Y., Mrs. Richard (Mariam) Ciatyk, Binghamton, Mrs. Ralph (Mildred) Winters, North Pitcher, N.Y.; two brothers, Gordon Markoff, Johnson City, Donald Markoff, W. Windsor; also predeceased by a brother Merlin Markoff; also survived by several neices and nephews. Mr.

Markoff was a member of Ogden Hillerest United Methodist Church. Member of the Binghamton Club. And also the Binhamton Country Club. Mr. Markoff was a General Contractor for over 27 years and the owner and operator of BurtonMarkoff Construction Co.

Inc. and the Brandywine Construction Corporation. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. from the Hillcrest United Methodist Church with the Rev. Richard Schuster Pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in Vestal Hills Memorial Park. Friends may call at the William R. Chase Son Funeral Home, 737 Chenango St. Port Dickinson, Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Family will also receive friends Wednesday at church, 10:00 a.m.

until service time. In lieu of flowers kindly consider memorial contributions to the Ogden Hillcrest United Methodist Church, 1061 Chenango St. Binghamton, N. Y. 13901 or Syracuse Cancer Research Institute, Inc.

Attention Dr. Joseph Gold, 600 East Genessee St. Syracuse, N. Y. 13202.

Howard Williams of Binghamton Howard Williams, 60, 38 Rush died Friday at Wilson Memorial Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Maude Williams, Binghamton; four sons, Clarence B. Williams, Binghamton, Howard D. Williams, Albany, Karl E. Williams, Binghamton and Harold E.

Williams, Binghamton; one daughter, Shirley A. Williams, Binghamton; three grandchildren, Marcus E. Williams, Flushing, Travis M. Williams, Binghamton, Tracey A. Williams, Binghamton; two brothers, Rev.

Waddell Williams, Marion, SC and Willie Williams, Geneva; one sister, Mrs. Bessie Fyrer, Waterloo; several nieces, nephews and cousins. He was a veteran of World War II. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. from the William R.

Chase Son Inc. Funeral Home, 44 Exchange Binghmton with the Rev. Clarence Washington, pastor of Beautiful Plain Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Spring Forest Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Mrs. Anna Gaydos of Johnson City Mrs. Anna Gaydos, 78, of 32 Zoa Avenue, went to be with her Lord Sunday evening at Wilson Memorial Hospital. She was predeceased by her husband, John Gaydos in May 1983. She is survived by four daughters, Mrs.

Robert (Mary Ann) Nemconsky, Mrs. Edward (Rose) Suer; both of Johnson City, Mrs. Pierre (Joyce) Mazurais, Fontaianbleau, France, Mrs. Anthony (Shirley) Milasi, Endwell; seven grandchildren, David, Rick, and Mark Suer; all of Johnson City, Mrs. Alan (Deborah) Wahl, Rochester, Alexander Mazurais, Fontaianbleau, France, Anthony and Michael Milasi, Endwell; two brothers, Joseph Gaydos, New Britain, Andrew Gaydos, Czechoslovakia; a sister-in-law, Mrs.

Sophie Gaydos, Johnson City; also several nieces, nephews and cousins. She was a member of St. Michael's Greek Catholic Church and it's Mother's Club. She was a retired employee of the E.J. Corporation, Johson City.

She wants to be remembered by her many friends at the Main-Edwards Street Laundromat in Binghamton. Funeral services will be held Wednesday 9 a.m. at the Chopyak-Scheider Funeral Home, 326 Prospect Binghamton and at 9:30 a.m. at St. Michael's Greek Catholic Church.

The Very Rev. Msgr. Stephen Dutko, will officiate. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Msgr.

Dutko will conduct Parastas 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. The family will receive friends today 7 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the ChopyakScheider Funeral Home.

Memorial Contributions may be made to either St. Michael's Cemetery Fund or to the Union Volunteer Emergercy Squad (UVES). Calvin J. Clark of Endwell Calvin J. Clark, 59, of 1188 Taft Endwell, died unexpectedly at his residence Saturday at 5:15 p.m.

He is survived by three godchildren, Rebecca L. Watson, California, Donna J. James, and Wayne L. Leverknight, both of Endicott; one niece, Linda Lou Clark, Endwell; one nephew, M. Arthur Clark, Endwell; one sister-in-law, Mrs.

Mabel C. Clark, Endwell; one aunt and several cousins. He was a member of Central United Methodist Church of Endicott; a 32 yr. member of Nanticoke Valley Grange No. 1153; a life-long resident of the Endicott area and has been an independent insurance agent for the past 28 years before his retirement in 1983.

He was active in several music organizations in the Triple Cities. Funeral and interment services will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. from the Allen Memorial Home, 511- 513 E. Main Endicott with Rev. Stephen Heiss associate pastor of Central United Methodist Church officiating.

Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Endicott. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. Expressions of sympahty in his memory may be made to "Memorial Fund' Central United Methodist Church, 17 Nanticoke Endicott, NY 13760. F. Lee Springer of Endicott Funeral and interment services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m.

from the Allen Memorial Home, 511-513 East Main Street, with the Rev. Gary R. Kuhns, pastor of his church, officiating. Burial will be in Vestal Hills Memorial Park Cemtery. The family will receive friends at the Allen Memorial Home Monday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.

Expressions of sympathy in memory Mrs. Springer may be made to the Hospice Unit Our Lady Lourdes Hospital, 169 Riverside Binghamton, NY 13902. Mrs. Maude M. Goon formerly of Vestal Private funeral services for Mrs.

Maude M. Goon will be Tuesday from the Allen Memorial Home, 511-513 East Main Endicott, with the Rev. Wilford E. Young, Pastor of the Little White Church, officiating. Burial will be in Riverhurst Cemetery, Endicott.

Expressions of sympathy in memory of Mrs. Goon may be made to The Little White Church, Conklin, N.Y. 13748. Ada G. Lippy of Johnson City Donna Mae Simpson of McDonough Mrs.

Donna Mae Simpson, 49, of RD1, McDonough, died Sunday at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital after a short illness. She is survived by two daughters, Karen Simpson, San Antonio, Texas and Kathy Houser, Tuscon, two sons, Martin A. Simpson and Mathew W. Simpson, both of McDonough; her mother, Mrs. Loretta Branigan, South Otselic; two brothers, Robert Tytler, Waterloo and Laverne Tytler, DeRuyter; her father in law and mother in law, Ward and Edith Simpson, McDonough; also four grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Her husband, Aubrey Simpson, died February 18, 1982. She had worked for Chenango County for the last 13 years. She initially worked for the Department of Motor Vehicles and later transferred to the department of Social Services. At the time of her death, she held the position of Fraud Investigator for the Department. She was a member of Calvary Episcopal Church, McDonough, serving as lay reader and financial secretary for her church.

She had been active in political affairs, serving as a Republican Committeewoman for the Town of McDonough. She was a member of the Chenango County Republican Association, and a voter registration worker for McDonough, and a member of Kelley Grange No. 1301 of McDonough. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 1:30 a.m. from Calvary Episcopal Church, McDonough.

The Rev. Ronald A. Wyckoff, rector, will officiate. Burial will be at a later date in Union Cemetery, McDonough. Calling hours are at Fahy Funeral Home, Norwich, Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Expressions of sympathy in her memory may be made to the Calvary Episcopal Church, McDonough, or the McDonough Emergency Squad. Laurette Masey of Binghamton Mrs. Laurette Masey, of 11 Sumner died Sunday at 12:50 p.m. Manor at the River Mede Nursing Home. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs.

Leona Livernoche, with whom she made her home, and Mrs. Stanley (Berneita) Beishline, Binghamton; one niece, Helen Livernoche, Plainsboro, N.J.; one great-niece, Maureen Snyder, Gaithersburg, one Franklin E. Livernoche III, Ewing, N.J.; one great Shawn -great Livernoche, nephew, Ewing, N.J.; her aunt, Clara Kniffin, Painted Post; one cousin, Elvira Harlos, Johnson City; also several other cousins. She was a member of the Boulevard United Methodist Church, and the Post 80 American Legion Auxillary, Binghamton. Funeral and committal services will be Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.

at the Barber Memorial Home, 428 Main Johnson City, with the Rev. William A. Jones, pastor of her church, officiating. Burial will be in Vestal Hills Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at the Barber Memorial Home, from 2 to 4 and 7 to t9 p.m.

Tuesday. Donations may be made to the Memorial Fund of the Boulevard United Methodist Church. 'Emma (Follett) Lum of Greene Squad. Dorothy Willsey of Stuart Fla. Funeral and committal services for Emma (Follett) Lum will be at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at the Root Funeral Home, 23 North Chenango Street, Greene. The Rev. Scott Kavanaugh, pastor of her church, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, South New Berlin. Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 12 noon until time of service.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Greene Emergency Dorothy Willsey, 72, of Stuart formerly of Binghamton, went to be with her Lord Jan. 22, 1984. Beloved mother of Mrs. Edwin (Shirley) Mrs. William (Delores) Wolcott of Binghamton, one son Donald Glenn, of Stuart Fla.

Loving and missing her are ten grandchildren, nine great grandchildren. Mrs. Ada G. Lippy, 89, of the Susquehanna Nursing Home, died Sunday at 12:50 p.m. at the nursing home.

She is survived by two sons and daughters-inlaw, H. Wallace and Lois Lippy, Charles A. and Natalie Lippy, both of Binghamton; her sister, Mrs. Eva Nevel, Binghamton; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; two nieces. She was a member of the Boulevard United Methodist Church and the Russell Potter Sunday School Class of the Church.

She was a charter member of the Johnson City Order of Eastern Star No. 680; the Joppa Shrine No. 8 and the Star Council Daughters of America. Funeral and committal services will be Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Barber Memorial Home, 428 Main Johnson City with her pastor the Rev.

William A. Jones and her grandson, Dr. Charles H. Lippy officiating. Burial will be in Vestal Hills Memorial Park.

The family will receive friends at the Barber Memorial Home, 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. The Johnson City Order of Eastern Star will hold ritualistic services Wednesday at 8 p.m. Donations may be made to the Memorial Fund of the Boulevard United Methodist Church.

Laureat A. Giroux of Vestal Laureat A. Giroux, 62, of 1340 Hillside Drive, Vestal, died Saturday morning unexpectedly. He is survived by his wife, Georgette A. Giroux, Vestal; two daughters, Miss Lorraine J.

Giroux, Buffalo and Ms. Denise M. Giroux, Romulus, NY; three sons, Ensign Richard P. Giroux, with the U.S. Navy stationed at Miramar Navel Air Station, CA, Michael C.

Giroux, Orlando, Fla. and David C. Giroux, Vestal; his mother, Mrs. Anita Wilson, Norway, Maine; one brother, Adrien Giroux, Cumberland, RI; several nieces and nephews; one aunt, Mrs. Loretta Patenaude, Oxford, Maine.

He was a member of Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Vestal, an employee of the U.S.M. Harrisburg, a veteran of World War II serving in the U.S. and recipient of the Silver Star and a member of the American Legion. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the Allen Memorial Home, 511-513 East Main St.

Endicott and at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Vestal where a Mass of Christian Burial will be offered. Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, Lewiston, Maine. The family will receive friends at the Allen Memorial Home Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

with a prayer service Tuesday evening. He will be sadly missed by his family and friends. Stephen R. Molnar of Johnson City Stephen R. Molnar, 77, of 15 Berwin died Sunday, January 29, at the Wilson Memorial Hospital after a long illness.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Merrideth Molnar, Johnson City; two daughters and son-in-law, Mary and Michael Ryan, Johnson City, Anne Waterman, Calcium, N.Y.; two sons and daughter-in-law, Steve Molnar, Bob and Diane Molnar, Vestal; step daughter and husband, Janice and Ed Haley, Campville; ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He was a retiree of Stow Manufacturing Co. and had been a barber for many years. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.

from the Barber Memorial Home, 428 Main Johnson City with the Rev. Hubert S. Wood, rector of the All Saints Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will be The family will receive in Riverhurst Cemetery. friends at the Barber Memorial Home from 7 to 9 p.m.

Tuesday. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Union Volunteer Emergency Squad would be appreciated. The Nation's Newspaper USA TODAY Call 798:1161 for home delivery AP David L. Gunn stands in the Philadelphia garage of the head of the authority but finally agreed to take on New Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority York City's bus and subway system. recently.

Gunn refused three times to leave his job as Gunn aims to fix NYC transit By MARGARET GORDY The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) David L. Gunn likes to climb mountains, tinker with machines and inspire people. As president of the nation's largest and most troubled public transportation system, he will get a. chance to do all three. When Gunn takes over Wednesday as head of the New York Transit Authority, he'll be tackling a decaying commuter system that hauls 5.3 million people a day, onethird of all the public transportation riders in the country.

The graffitti-scarred system last year suffered 20 subway derailments and recently learned that half of its 850 new Grumman Flexible buses have steering defects. Ninety percent of its subway cars have been vandalized, and one transit official said it loses more than $1.5 million a year to loaf- "What better way to spend your time?" ing on the i job. he asked. Making tough decisions is not new to A Bostonian who graduated from HarGunn. As head of the Southeastern Pennsyl- vard University in 1959 with a degree in vania Transportation Authority he ran the government, Gunn spent four years in the nation's fourth-largest system with a firm Navy, then earned a master's degree in hand, decentralizing the power structure business from Harvard in 1964.

and facing down a 108-day strike that re- After stints with the Atchison, Topeka sulted in what one union leader called "the and the Santa Fe railway, the New York worst contract I ever signed." Central System and the Illinois Central An easy-going man who shuns suit jack- Gulf Railroad, Gunn joined the Boston ets and often works in his stocking feet, Transit Authority. There he worked as genGunn is a Navy veteran who infused the eral operations manager under Robert R. Philadelphia transit system with a dose of Kiley, who would become the Metropolitan military-style discipline. Transit Authority chairman who brought Gunn to New York. Gunn, 46, is a bachelor.

He does not own a In 1979 Gunn went to Philadelphia, where car, and, except for weekend backpacking burned-out buses and 50-year-old vandalin the mountains, improving public trans- ized subway cars were a way of life for the portation has been his passion for the past city's 1 million passengers. 20 years. Bombing victim called KKK member DALLAS (AP) A 63-year-old man killed when a bomb exploded in a newspaper vending machine was briefly a member of the Ku Klux Klan, says a man identifying himself as the organization's Texas recruiter. The victim, Ward S. Keeton, had told classmates in a community college that he had infiltrated the Klan and the American Nazi Party for the government.

An FBI spokesman said Keeton "is known to us" but would not confirm any connection between Keeton and the agency. Orval Pugh, who identified himself as the Klan's King Kleagle and Texas recruiter, said a man listed as Keeton" was a KKK member for a short time. Pugh said Klan records at the organization's national headquarters show Keeton joined the Klan on Aug. 10, 1976, and com pleted a three-month probation period. er activities.

Keeton then attended regular Klan meet- "I remember him saying he infiltrated ings of a now disbanded chapter in Dallas subversive groups for the government," for a month before dropping out, Pugh said. said Germaine Roberts, a student in the Pugh, who originally said that Keeton class. had not been a Klan member, said he A spokesman for the the U.S. Bureau of received calls from other members yester- Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said it day saying they remembered Keeton. would be several days before a report on Pugh said the Klan had nothing to do with tests on the bombing would be available.

the bombing. Keeton, dressed in a bathrobe, was killed "We would not bomb anybody, and that's instantly early Friday when he opened a being frank with you," Pugh said. "That's newspaper vending box near his aparttoo violent for the Klan." ment. Neighbors said he bought a paper Classmates who attended Richland Com- from the machine every morning at about munity College with Keeton two years ago the same time. said Keeton brought several items of Nazi The Dallas Times Herald quoted a federparaphernalia to an evening business com- al prosecutor Saturday as saying that the munications class including weapons, investigation is uncovering "too many coinswastikas and propaganda pamphlets as cidences," and that the bombing is looking visual aids for a speech about his undercov- "'less and less Weekend fires leave 14 in state dead Vallon where he was in satisfactory condition yesterday.

two 21-year-old teen- Rochester fire officials think a 3-year-old was playing with matches or a cigarette morn- lighter in his parents' home there and startdestroyed ed a fire that killed him and his 3-month-old brother Saturday morning. as Cindy 5, and Nel- The boys' father, David Howard, 23, susCharles M. tained burns over 40 percent of his body and was taken to Strong Memorial Hospi47, was se- tal, according to a hospital spokeswoman. from the Also injured in the fire was the Frances Chief Jim DiBenedetto, 49, the children's grandmother, and her two sons, Patrick, 16, and MiBates, was chael Lahey, 18. taken to St.

Luke's Hospital in Newburgh By The Associated Press sheriff's Deputy Nicholas Everhard. Fires in New York state left 14 people was about 15 years old, he said. dead including 10 children over the In Walden, Orange County, a weekend. woman, her two children and In Newburgh a tenant was accused of agers were victims of fire Saturday starting an apartment fire that left about ing when six apartments were 100 homeless Saturday. above a pizzeria.

Four family members and one foster The victims were identified child died early yesterday in a fire at their Lewis, 21; her children, Helen, Lockport, Niagara County, home. son Melinda Bates, 13, and The victims were identified as Norman Sutton, 15. Greig, 43; his wife, Sally, 40; son Christo- A sixth person, Melvin Bates, pher, 10, and Florence Wayner, 84, who was riously injured when he jumped Sally Greig's mother. burning building, said Fire A fifth victim, Donna Vallon, was a foster Ryan. child staying with the Greigs, said county Bates, the father of Lewis and Guardian Angels pressing to start chapter in Syracuse By The Associated Press The Guardian Angels are stepping up their efforts to start a chapter in Syracuse and their leader, Curtis Sliwa, says he will travel Albany later this week to see if the crime ing group is needed there.

Meanwhile Sliwa, founder of the organization, said he was to meet with Rochester officials today to sign an agreement permitting the Guardian Angels to ride buses for free while on patrol in that city. Sliwa, Rochester Guardian Angels chapter leader Raul Torres, and Rochester Transit System Executive Director John Garrity were to sign the In Memoriams Husband, Richard Daddy Grandpa We Love and Miss You Love, Jo Marie, Stan Eric and Scott BILLO, In Loving Memory of our Mother, Joyce Billo, who passed away 2 years ago today, January 30, 1982. in heaven we know she is happy. And as we go on each year, please tell her Lord she is in our thoughts, although she is not here. Her children.

BILLO Joyce A. Billo. Who passed away 2 years ago today. I miss your sweet smile The touch of your hand The dreams we dreamed Were built on sand. But the love in my heart Grows stronger each day For my Wife and Pal Whom God took away.

Sadly missed by pact at 10 a.m., according to Sliwa. The Angels, whose trademark is a red beret, have three chapters in western New York: Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Rochester. They are attempting to start a unit in Syracuse and on Thursday and Friday will travel to Albany to see if one is needed there, said Sliwa, speaking from Rochester yesterday. In Rochester "we'll be concentrating on the No.3 and the No.9 buses going east. Those were the two that were most often pointed out to us by bus drivers as being where most of the problems occur.

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