The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-31
OBITUARY

UPSON-Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Myra Up- son, II, of 602 Division street, Day. enport, Iowa, Thursday morning in Mercy hospital, Davenport. Funeral services were held Friday and the body was cremated.
 Mrs. Upson, a former Waterbury resident, suffered a stroke June g on train en route to Cleveland after she and her husband, Harry Upson, had visited the New York Worlds Fair She had been in the hospital since July 1. A daughter of the couple, Mrs. Harold Madigan of s6 Washington street, visited them last Sunday.
 Mrs. Upson was born in Lowell, Mass, oct. ?, 1867. She received her early education in Plainville and was married here in 1888. She and her husband celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary May 2l, 1888. They visited here a month later.
 The couple left Waterbury in 1885 for San Antonio, Texas. Mir. Upson formerly worked at the Waterbury Clock Co. and had book store on North Main street.
 Besides her husband Mrs. Up- son is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Madigan, Mrs. James Stack and Mrs. Eugene Norman, all of Waterbury; two sons, Harry and Fred Upson. both of Davenport and II grandchildren.
 BURNAP-Mrs. Harriet (Howard) Burnap, s5, widow of George Frank lin Burnap, died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ernest c. Whitney, of l784 Baldwin street. Mrs. Burnap was born in Green boro, Vt., and lived here 27 years.
 Survivors include two sons, Rich ard S., of Milford, and George H., of this city; three daughters, Mrs. Whitney, Miss Ellen L. Burnap, Chi cago, and Miss Margaret M Burnap, Woburn, Mass; a sister, Miss c. Kate Howard, Morrisville, Vt.; four grand- children, and two great grandchil- dren.
 Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon at ? o'clock at the Clark funeral home, 20 State street. Burial will be Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Laurel Hill cemetery, Fitchburg, Mass. Rev. Irving Burnap of Hartford, will be in charge of services tomorrow and Wednesday.
 Friends may call at the funeral home today from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock and from to g o'clock. CARTER Funeral services for Allen H. Carter, 62, of 208 Woodlawn terrace, will be held at the Alderson Funeral Home, 70 Central avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Rev. Moreton w. Owen, pastor emeritus of the Bunker Hill Congre- gational church, will officiate. Burial will be in Highland cemetery, Win sted.
 MT. Carter died last Saturday night at St. Marys hospital.
 He was born October 2, 1876, in Westfield, the son of William and Lena (Stanford) Carter. He was em- ployed for 35 years at the Chase Rolling Mills.
 Surviving are a brother, George s. Garter, of this city; sister, Mrs. A. Morton Dexter, West Hart ford; a niece, Mrs. Norman Dick inson Windsor; two nephews, AL bert M. Dexter, Jr., and John Dex- ter both of West Hartford.
 Friends may call at the funeral home this evening from to 9 o'clock.
 BENHAM - Mrs. Ida May Ben ham, 67, of 1876 Thomaston avenue, died at her home Saturday morn- ing She was born May Is, 1872, the daughter of George and Jane Tomp- kins Hartley, and had always lived In Waterbury, spending her summers at Milford.
 She leaves one daughter, Mrs. D. Ward Henion, one sister, Miss Charlotte Hartley; one grandson, Harley Woodward Henion; and one nephew, Earle Hartley, all of Wa terbury.
 Funeral services were held at the Clark Funeral Home, 20 State street, this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev David P. Gaines, pastor of the First Baptist church, officiated. Burial was | it, iUarcfln rny,, at