A simple prayer service will be said today for a baby girl with brown hair. No mother will be there to weep for her.
There was someone who felt the pain of bearing this little girl, but she hasn't shown up so far. Perhaps she will sometime.
Three persons have done something for the nameless child found New Year's Eve, frozen to death in a white cardboard box on the steps of a side entrance to University Methodist Church.
The first was a minister, the Rev. Dr. William Montgomery, retired pastor of Wesleyan Methodist Church. He will read the prayers at 12:30 p.m. today at the John J. Curtin Funeral Home, 1128 W Onondaga Street.
The second was a woman, Mrs. Matthew J. Caffery of Mattydale. She offered part of her burial plot in Oakwood Cemetery for the little girl.
The third was a florist, John Burt of Mattydale. He gave flowers to surround the tiny white doeskin-covered casket in the funeral home.
Unless someone else steps forward, funeral costs will be paid by the burial division of the county Welfare Department.
"We pay for all burials in the county when it can be shown that relatives cannot bear the cost of funeral expenses," said Louis A. Harrold, acting welfare commissioner.
There are no known relatives to bury the little girl.
Two boys were passing by on their way to a store on new Year's Eve on an errand for their mother. They saw the box, walked over and looked at it. One of them tipped the box and out fell the baby girl, wrapped in a yellow towel and a white pillow case. She was frozen stiff. The little girl was dead.
An autopsy showed that the baby was born alive. How long she lived is not known.
The little girl weighted six pounds. "A healthy Caucasian female," noted the doctor's report.
Syracuse Post Standard, January 4, 1962, page 6
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According to a Post Standard article on February 19, 1962 the mother was identified as Kay Lorrain Brong, a night nurse at the Veterans Administration. The father was identified as David Crahan of Oswego, a circulation manager of the Oswego Palladium-Times. Both were arrested, the mother charged with first degree murder and the father as a material witness. An article on May 9, 1963 said that the mother pled guilty to unlawfully omitting to provide for a child and was given a suspended sentence and placed on three years probation.
There was someone who felt the pain of bearing this little girl, but she hasn't shown up so far. Perhaps she will sometime.
Three persons have done something for the nameless child found New Year's Eve, frozen to death in a white cardboard box on the steps of a side entrance to University Methodist Church.
The first was a minister, the Rev. Dr. William Montgomery, retired pastor of Wesleyan Methodist Church. He will read the prayers at 12:30 p.m. today at the John J. Curtin Funeral Home, 1128 W Onondaga Street.
The second was a woman, Mrs. Matthew J. Caffery of Mattydale. She offered part of her burial plot in Oakwood Cemetery for the little girl.
The third was a florist, John Burt of Mattydale. He gave flowers to surround the tiny white doeskin-covered casket in the funeral home.
Unless someone else steps forward, funeral costs will be paid by the burial division of the county Welfare Department.
"We pay for all burials in the county when it can be shown that relatives cannot bear the cost of funeral expenses," said Louis A. Harrold, acting welfare commissioner.
There are no known relatives to bury the little girl.
Two boys were passing by on their way to a store on new Year's Eve on an errand for their mother. They saw the box, walked over and looked at it. One of them tipped the box and out fell the baby girl, wrapped in a yellow towel and a white pillow case. She was frozen stiff. The little girl was dead.
An autopsy showed that the baby was born alive. How long she lived is not known.
The little girl weighted six pounds. "A healthy Caucasian female," noted the doctor's report.
Syracuse Post Standard, January 4, 1962, page 6
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According to a Post Standard article on February 19, 1962 the mother was identified as Kay Lorrain Brong, a night nurse at the Veterans Administration. The father was identified as David Crahan of Oswego, a circulation manager of the Oswego Palladium-Times. Both were arrested, the mother charged with first degree murder and the father as a material witness. An article on May 9, 1963 said that the mother pled guilty to unlawfully omitting to provide for a child and was given a suspended sentence and placed on three years probation.
A simple prayer service will be said today for a baby girl with brown hair. No mother will be there to weep for her.
There was someone who felt the pain of bearing this little girl, but she hasn't shown up so far. Perhaps she will sometime.
Three persons have done something for the nameless child found New Year's Eve, frozen to death in a white cardboard box on the steps of a side entrance to University Methodist Church.
The first was a minister, the Rev. Dr. William Montgomery, retired pastor of Wesleyan Methodist Church. He will read the prayers at 12:30 p.m. today at the John J. Curtin Funeral Home, 1128 W Onondaga Street.
The second was a woman, Mrs. Matthew J. Caffery of Mattydale. She offered part of her burial plot in Oakwood Cemetery for the little girl.
The third was a florist, John Burt of Mattydale. He gave flowers to surround the tiny white doeskin-covered casket in the funeral home.
Unless someone else steps forward, funeral costs will be paid by the burial division of the county Welfare Department.
"We pay for all burials in the county when it can be shown that relatives cannot bear the cost of funeral expenses," said Louis A. Harrold, acting welfare commissioner.
There are no known relatives to bury the little girl.
Two boys were passing by on their way to a store on new Year's Eve on an errand for their mother. They saw the box, walked over and looked at it. One of them tipped the box and out fell the baby girl, wrapped in a yellow towel and a white pillow case. She was frozen stiff. The little girl was dead.
An autopsy showed that the baby was born alive. How long she lived is not known.
The little girl weighted six pounds. "A healthy Caucasian female," noted the doctor's report.
Syracuse Post Standard, January 4, 1962, page 6
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According to a Post Standard article on February 19, 1962 the mother was identified as Kay Lorrain Brong, a night nurse at the Veterans Administration. The father was identified as David Crahan of Oswego, a circulation manager of the Oswego Palladium-Times. Both were arrested, the mother charged with first degree murder and the father as a material witness. An article on May 9, 1963 said that the mother pled guilty to unlawfully omitting to provide for a child and was given a suspended sentence and placed on three years probation.
There was someone who felt the pain of bearing this little girl, but she hasn't shown up so far. Perhaps she will sometime.
Three persons have done something for the nameless child found New Year's Eve, frozen to death in a white cardboard box on the steps of a side entrance to University Methodist Church.
The first was a minister, the Rev. Dr. William Montgomery, retired pastor of Wesleyan Methodist Church. He will read the prayers at 12:30 p.m. today at the John J. Curtin Funeral Home, 1128 W Onondaga Street.
The second was a woman, Mrs. Matthew J. Caffery of Mattydale. She offered part of her burial plot in Oakwood Cemetery for the little girl.
The third was a florist, John Burt of Mattydale. He gave flowers to surround the tiny white doeskin-covered casket in the funeral home.
Unless someone else steps forward, funeral costs will be paid by the burial division of the county Welfare Department.
"We pay for all burials in the county when it can be shown that relatives cannot bear the cost of funeral expenses," said Louis A. Harrold, acting welfare commissioner.
There are no known relatives to bury the little girl.
Two boys were passing by on their way to a store on new Year's Eve on an errand for their mother. They saw the box, walked over and looked at it. One of them tipped the box and out fell the baby girl, wrapped in a yellow towel and a white pillow case. She was frozen stiff. The little girl was dead.
An autopsy showed that the baby was born alive. How long she lived is not known.
The little girl weighted six pounds. "A healthy Caucasian female," noted the doctor's report.
Syracuse Post Standard, January 4, 1962, page 6
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According to a Post Standard article on February 19, 1962 the mother was identified as Kay Lorrain Brong, a night nurse at the Veterans Administration. The father was identified as David Crahan of Oswego, a circulation manager of the Oswego Palladium-Times. Both were arrested, the mother charged with first degree murder and the father as a material witness. An article on May 9, 1963 said that the mother pled guilty to unlawfully omitting to provide for a child and was given a suspended sentence and placed on three years probation.
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