Unknown Newspaper, Tuesday, Apr. 14, 1970.
LITTLE GENESEE - Ferris S. Whitford of this community died Monday (April 13) in the Cuba Memorial Hospital following a long illness.
Born February 13, 1880 in Berlin (N.Y.) he was a son of the late John Byron and Mary Summerbell Whitford.
An educator in New York and New Jersey for 47 years, Mr. Whitford taught in the Bolivar School System for 20 years before his retirement. He also taught in Allentown, Wellsville and Ceres.
During World War I he served as a YMCA Field Representative in France. He was a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, Little Genesee, and was senior deacon there.
Surviving with his widow, the former Reva L. Pettite, are three sons, William L.. Rochester, Byron F., Hamburg, and Robert F., Clearfield, Pa., eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Schaffner Funeral Home, Bolivar, where funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. Harold King, pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Burial will be in Wells Cemetery.
LITTLE GENESEE - Ferris S. Whitford of this community died Monday (April 13) in the Cuba Memorial Hospital following a long illness.
Born February 13, 1880 in Berlin (N.Y.) he was a son of the late John Byron and Mary Summerbell Whitford.
An educator in New York and New Jersey for 47 years, Mr. Whitford taught in the Bolivar School System for 20 years before his retirement. He also taught in Allentown, Wellsville and Ceres.
During World War I he served as a YMCA Field Representative in France. He was a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, Little Genesee, and was senior deacon there.
Surviving with his widow, the former Reva L. Pettite, are three sons, William L.. Rochester, Byron F., Hamburg, and Robert F., Clearfield, Pa., eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Schaffner Funeral Home, Bolivar, where funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. Harold King, pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Burial will be in Wells Cemetery.
Unknown Newspaper, Tuesday, Apr. 14, 1970.
LITTLE GENESEE - Ferris S. Whitford of this community died Monday (April 13) in the Cuba Memorial Hospital following a long illness.
Born February 13, 1880 in Berlin (N.Y.) he was a son of the late John Byron and Mary Summerbell Whitford.
An educator in New York and New Jersey for 47 years, Mr. Whitford taught in the Bolivar School System for 20 years before his retirement. He also taught in Allentown, Wellsville and Ceres.
During World War I he served as a YMCA Field Representative in France. He was a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, Little Genesee, and was senior deacon there.
Surviving with his widow, the former Reva L. Pettite, are three sons, William L.. Rochester, Byron F., Hamburg, and Robert F., Clearfield, Pa., eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Schaffner Funeral Home, Bolivar, where funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. Harold King, pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Burial will be in Wells Cemetery.
LITTLE GENESEE - Ferris S. Whitford of this community died Monday (April 13) in the Cuba Memorial Hospital following a long illness.
Born February 13, 1880 in Berlin (N.Y.) he was a son of the late John Byron and Mary Summerbell Whitford.
An educator in New York and New Jersey for 47 years, Mr. Whitford taught in the Bolivar School System for 20 years before his retirement. He also taught in Allentown, Wellsville and Ceres.
During World War I he served as a YMCA Field Representative in France. He was a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, Little Genesee, and was senior deacon there.
Surviving with his widow, the former Reva L. Pettite, are three sons, William L.. Rochester, Byron F., Hamburg, and Robert F., Clearfield, Pa., eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Schaffner Funeral Home, Bolivar, where funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. Harold King, pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Burial will be in Wells Cemetery.
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