Ogdensburg Journal - 1947
DeKalb Junction—Funeral services for Pvt. Clarence F. Puffer of Eddy were held Sunday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock in the E. E. O'Leary Funeral Home at Canton and in the DeKalb Junction Methodist, Church at 2 o'clock.
The Rev. Allan G. Bowering, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Heuvelton, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Howard Gabriel, pastor of the local church.
Burial was made in the DeKalb Union Cemetery, Risley Rd.
Private Puffer's body arrived at Canton on Friday. He was killed in action Dec. 4, 1944 during his third invasion of Germany and his body was buried in the Military Cemetery at Henri, Chappelle, France.
EVERY MILITARY honor was accorded Private Puffer at Canton and DeKalb Junction.
A uniformed guard of honor from the Canton posts of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars met the train bearing the body and escorted it to the O'Leary Funeral Home, Canton. There, an honor guard was posted by the casket during the time it remained.
Accompanying the honor guard escorting the body were service men, state police from the Canton sub-station, members of the St. Lawrence County sheriff's office and the Canton Police Department.
Business places in Canton were closed at the time of the train's arrival and were not opened until the body had been taken to the funeral home.
When the body was brought from Canton to the DeKalb Junction church, it was accompanied by approximately 30 service men from the Army, Navy and Marines from Canton and vicinity.
Acting as pall bearers were Lyle Bishop, John Cunningham, James Cunningham, Robert Leonard, Maurice Leonard, Walter Leonard, Charles Miles and Richard Clarke.
Military rites were conducted at the grave. Everett Howard, adjutant of the Canton post of the American Legion, acted as chaplain. Albert Bristol of Canton was in command of the firing squad. Taps were sounded by Bugler Malcolm Maine, also of Canton;
PRIVATE PUFFER was born in DeKalb on Dec. 29, 1916, a son of the late Harry and Ethel Risley Puffer. He was graduated from DeKalb Junction High School in 1935 and from St. Lawrence University, Canton, in 1941. He was inducted into the Army on Aug. 5, 1941 and received his basic training at Camp Croft, S. C. He was on coast guard duty at Camp Edwards, Mass., and Saco, Me.
After attending military school in Georgia he was transferred from the infantry to the armored infantry and later was stationed at Fort Dix, N. J., and at Indiantown Gap, Pa.
He was sent overseas in February, 1944, landing at Swindon, England, with the Fifth Division of the First Army. He took part in the break through at St. Lo and in the liberation of Paris. He also saw service in Luxembourg and in Belgium. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Arthur (Pearl) Blount, Eddy; one brother, Kenneth Puffer, Gouverneur; four uncles, Obed Risley, Springwater; William Puffer, DeKalb Junction; Ernest Puffer, DeKalb Junction, and Ralph Puffer, Canton; five aunts, Miss Marion Puffer, DeKalb Junction;-Mrs. Carl Henry, Belleville; Mrs. Frank Perry, Rensselaer Falls; Mrs. Ernest Rounds, Carthage, and Mrs. Harold Sweet, Utica; one niece, Eleanor Blount, Eddy, and one nephew, Donald Blount, Eddy.
DeKalb Junction—Funeral services for Pvt. Clarence F. Puffer of Eddy were held Sunday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock in the E. E. O'Leary Funeral Home at Canton and in the DeKalb Junction Methodist, Church at 2 o'clock.
The Rev. Allan G. Bowering, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Heuvelton, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Howard Gabriel, pastor of the local church.
Burial was made in the DeKalb Union Cemetery, Risley Rd.
Private Puffer's body arrived at Canton on Friday. He was killed in action Dec. 4, 1944 during his third invasion of Germany and his body was buried in the Military Cemetery at Henri, Chappelle, France.
EVERY MILITARY honor was accorded Private Puffer at Canton and DeKalb Junction.
A uniformed guard of honor from the Canton posts of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars met the train bearing the body and escorted it to the O'Leary Funeral Home, Canton. There, an honor guard was posted by the casket during the time it remained.
Accompanying the honor guard escorting the body were service men, state police from the Canton sub-station, members of the St. Lawrence County sheriff's office and the Canton Police Department.
Business places in Canton were closed at the time of the train's arrival and were not opened until the body had been taken to the funeral home.
When the body was brought from Canton to the DeKalb Junction church, it was accompanied by approximately 30 service men from the Army, Navy and Marines from Canton and vicinity.
Acting as pall bearers were Lyle Bishop, John Cunningham, James Cunningham, Robert Leonard, Maurice Leonard, Walter Leonard, Charles Miles and Richard Clarke.
Military rites were conducted at the grave. Everett Howard, adjutant of the Canton post of the American Legion, acted as chaplain. Albert Bristol of Canton was in command of the firing squad. Taps were sounded by Bugler Malcolm Maine, also of Canton;
PRIVATE PUFFER was born in DeKalb on Dec. 29, 1916, a son of the late Harry and Ethel Risley Puffer. He was graduated from DeKalb Junction High School in 1935 and from St. Lawrence University, Canton, in 1941. He was inducted into the Army on Aug. 5, 1941 and received his basic training at Camp Croft, S. C. He was on coast guard duty at Camp Edwards, Mass., and Saco, Me.
After attending military school in Georgia he was transferred from the infantry to the armored infantry and later was stationed at Fort Dix, N. J., and at Indiantown Gap, Pa.
He was sent overseas in February, 1944, landing at Swindon, England, with the Fifth Division of the First Army. He took part in the break through at St. Lo and in the liberation of Paris. He also saw service in Luxembourg and in Belgium. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Arthur (Pearl) Blount, Eddy; one brother, Kenneth Puffer, Gouverneur; four uncles, Obed Risley, Springwater; William Puffer, DeKalb Junction; Ernest Puffer, DeKalb Junction, and Ralph Puffer, Canton; five aunts, Miss Marion Puffer, DeKalb Junction;-Mrs. Carl Henry, Belleville; Mrs. Frank Perry, Rensselaer Falls; Mrs. Ernest Rounds, Carthage, and Mrs. Harold Sweet, Utica; one niece, Eleanor Blount, Eddy, and one nephew, Donald Blount, Eddy.
Ogdensburg Journal - 1947
DeKalb Junction—Funeral services for Pvt. Clarence F. Puffer of Eddy were held Sunday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock in the E. E. O'Leary Funeral Home at Canton and in the DeKalb Junction Methodist, Church at 2 o'clock.
The Rev. Allan G. Bowering, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Heuvelton, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Howard Gabriel, pastor of the local church.
Burial was made in the DeKalb Union Cemetery, Risley Rd.
Private Puffer's body arrived at Canton on Friday. He was killed in action Dec. 4, 1944 during his third invasion of Germany and his body was buried in the Military Cemetery at Henri, Chappelle, France.
EVERY MILITARY honor was accorded Private Puffer at Canton and DeKalb Junction.
A uniformed guard of honor from the Canton posts of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars met the train bearing the body and escorted it to the O'Leary Funeral Home, Canton. There, an honor guard was posted by the casket during the time it remained.
Accompanying the honor guard escorting the body were service men, state police from the Canton sub-station, members of the St. Lawrence County sheriff's office and the Canton Police Department.
Business places in Canton were closed at the time of the train's arrival and were not opened until the body had been taken to the funeral home.
When the body was brought from Canton to the DeKalb Junction church, it was accompanied by approximately 30 service men from the Army, Navy and Marines from Canton and vicinity.
Acting as pall bearers were Lyle Bishop, John Cunningham, James Cunningham, Robert Leonard, Maurice Leonard, Walter Leonard, Charles Miles and Richard Clarke.
Military rites were conducted at the grave. Everett Howard, adjutant of the Canton post of the American Legion, acted as chaplain. Albert Bristol of Canton was in command of the firing squad. Taps were sounded by Bugler Malcolm Maine, also of Canton;
PRIVATE PUFFER was born in DeKalb on Dec. 29, 1916, a son of the late Harry and Ethel Risley Puffer. He was graduated from DeKalb Junction High School in 1935 and from St. Lawrence University, Canton, in 1941. He was inducted into the Army on Aug. 5, 1941 and received his basic training at Camp Croft, S. C. He was on coast guard duty at Camp Edwards, Mass., and Saco, Me.
After attending military school in Georgia he was transferred from the infantry to the armored infantry and later was stationed at Fort Dix, N. J., and at Indiantown Gap, Pa.
He was sent overseas in February, 1944, landing at Swindon, England, with the Fifth Division of the First Army. He took part in the break through at St. Lo and in the liberation of Paris. He also saw service in Luxembourg and in Belgium. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Arthur (Pearl) Blount, Eddy; one brother, Kenneth Puffer, Gouverneur; four uncles, Obed Risley, Springwater; William Puffer, DeKalb Junction; Ernest Puffer, DeKalb Junction, and Ralph Puffer, Canton; five aunts, Miss Marion Puffer, DeKalb Junction;-Mrs. Carl Henry, Belleville; Mrs. Frank Perry, Rensselaer Falls; Mrs. Ernest Rounds, Carthage, and Mrs. Harold Sweet, Utica; one niece, Eleanor Blount, Eddy, and one nephew, Donald Blount, Eddy.
DeKalb Junction—Funeral services for Pvt. Clarence F. Puffer of Eddy were held Sunday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock in the E. E. O'Leary Funeral Home at Canton and in the DeKalb Junction Methodist, Church at 2 o'clock.
The Rev. Allan G. Bowering, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Heuvelton, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Howard Gabriel, pastor of the local church.
Burial was made in the DeKalb Union Cemetery, Risley Rd.
Private Puffer's body arrived at Canton on Friday. He was killed in action Dec. 4, 1944 during his third invasion of Germany and his body was buried in the Military Cemetery at Henri, Chappelle, France.
EVERY MILITARY honor was accorded Private Puffer at Canton and DeKalb Junction.
A uniformed guard of honor from the Canton posts of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars met the train bearing the body and escorted it to the O'Leary Funeral Home, Canton. There, an honor guard was posted by the casket during the time it remained.
Accompanying the honor guard escorting the body were service men, state police from the Canton sub-station, members of the St. Lawrence County sheriff's office and the Canton Police Department.
Business places in Canton were closed at the time of the train's arrival and were not opened until the body had been taken to the funeral home.
When the body was brought from Canton to the DeKalb Junction church, it was accompanied by approximately 30 service men from the Army, Navy and Marines from Canton and vicinity.
Acting as pall bearers were Lyle Bishop, John Cunningham, James Cunningham, Robert Leonard, Maurice Leonard, Walter Leonard, Charles Miles and Richard Clarke.
Military rites were conducted at the grave. Everett Howard, adjutant of the Canton post of the American Legion, acted as chaplain. Albert Bristol of Canton was in command of the firing squad. Taps were sounded by Bugler Malcolm Maine, also of Canton;
PRIVATE PUFFER was born in DeKalb on Dec. 29, 1916, a son of the late Harry and Ethel Risley Puffer. He was graduated from DeKalb Junction High School in 1935 and from St. Lawrence University, Canton, in 1941. He was inducted into the Army on Aug. 5, 1941 and received his basic training at Camp Croft, S. C. He was on coast guard duty at Camp Edwards, Mass., and Saco, Me.
After attending military school in Georgia he was transferred from the infantry to the armored infantry and later was stationed at Fort Dix, N. J., and at Indiantown Gap, Pa.
He was sent overseas in February, 1944, landing at Swindon, England, with the Fifth Division of the First Army. He took part in the break through at St. Lo and in the liberation of Paris. He also saw service in Luxembourg and in Belgium. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Arthur (Pearl) Blount, Eddy; one brother, Kenneth Puffer, Gouverneur; four uncles, Obed Risley, Springwater; William Puffer, DeKalb Junction; Ernest Puffer, DeKalb Junction, and Ralph Puffer, Canton; five aunts, Miss Marion Puffer, DeKalb Junction;-Mrs. Carl Henry, Belleville; Mrs. Frank Perry, Rensselaer Falls; Mrs. Ernest Rounds, Carthage, and Mrs. Harold Sweet, Utica; one niece, Eleanor Blount, Eddy, and one nephew, Donald Blount, Eddy.
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