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- [S431] Watertown Daily Times, (Watertown, N.Y.), Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1950, page Three (Reliability: 3), 29 Jul 2007.
Arthur R. Besha Expires, Aged 76
Former New York Air Brake Employee - Funeral Will Be Thursday.
Arthur R. Besha, 76, former New York Air Brake company employee and one-time builder and contractor, died suddenly this morning at 6:10 of a coronary throbosis at his home, Paddy Hill, Brownville.
Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 9 from the home and at 9:30 in the Church of Immaculate Conception at Brownville. The celebrant of the solemn high mass of requiem will be Mr. Besha's brother-in-law, Rev. Albert J. Farrell, pastor of the Holy Family church. Burial will be made in Glenwood Cemetery.
The body will be returned to the family home late this afternoon from the Simpson Funeral home.
Surviving Mr. Besha are his wife, Mrs. Anna Amelia Farrell Besha, sister of Rev. Albert J. Farrell; six children, Harold J. Besha, 515 South Massey Street, assistant civil engineer of the New York State Department of Public Works, Bernard M. Besha, Syracuse, supervising accountant for the New York Telephone company, and Mrs. Joseph J. (Ella Mary) DeRosier, 213 Eastern Boulevard, all born of his first marriage, Francis R. Besha, Arlington, Va., chief draftsman for patent attorneys in Washington, D.C., Leon A. Besha, Ithica, a supervisor for the New York Telephone company, and Mrs. James E. (Agnes Marion) King, Leray street road, and nine grandchildren.
A brother, Herman J. Besha of this city, died here March 21, 1948.
Mr. Besha appeared to be in his usual good health until about 4 Monday afternoon when he complained of a pain in his chest after returning from a trip to a neighborhood store. A doctor was summoned to attend him. However he failed steadily until his death this morning.
He was born in the town of Leray, near Evans Mills, Nov. 2, 1873, a son of the late Joseph and Rosalie Simmonet Besha. He attended school at Evans MIlls and subsequently attended the old St. Joseph's academy of this city.
The early part of his life was spent on a farm near Evans Mills and at an early age he became an apprentice barn framer, erecting about 40 barns about Jefferson County.
Mr. Besha married twice. About 1900 he married Miss Kate M. Farrell, daughter of the late Michael and Ellen Farmer Farrell of East Hounsfield. After the marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Besha lived in Watertown and then at East Hounsfield, where she died about 1908.
About 1910 Mr. Besha married Miss Anna Amelia Farrell, East Hounsfield, a younger sisterof his first wife, in this city. About 40 years ago he built a home at Paddy Hill and they had since resided there.
During World War I Mr. Besha was employed as superintendent of general maintenance at the New York Air Brake company plant. Later, he entered the building and contracting business and he built a number of houses and industrial structures in Watertown or vicinity.
Mr. Besha returned to the emply of the Air Brake company during World War II and served as a pattern maker. He retired from te service of the company in 1945.
He was a member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception and of the Altar and Rosary society.
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