The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-15
FUNERALS

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 Eleven undertakers participated in the funeral Of Ernest A. Mazaika, 35, owner of the Mazaika funeral home. 10 Porter street. yesterday morning
 The funeral was held from the church where a solemn high Mass was celebrated by Rev. Joseph J. Valantieius. assisted by Rev. Vim cent Razaitis and Rev. Joseph Be- gusas.
 Rev. Edward Rad1zch was mas ter of ceremonies at the Mass, as- sisted by two priests from LaSal- lette college in Hartford, Rev. Dr. A. BruZas and Rev. Ignatius Adro- maitis. Burial was in Calvary cem- etery.
 Honorary bearers were Raymond A. Snyder, president of the Water bury Funeral Directors association, Idris AlderSon, ST, Edward Bergin, Thomas Deliniks and John Stokes.
 Bearers, all undertakers, were Thomas Colasanto, Earl Munson, Frank Kliscewski, Louis Buckmiller, Robert Petke and Joseph LaPorta.
 The funeral of Mrs. Rose (BlotD Baccaro, 22 Chambers street will be held from the ColaSanto Funeral Home, 932 Bank street, Monday at 8:15 to the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel for a solemn high Mass of requiem at g. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today and tomorrow from to 10 p. m.
 The funeral of Mrs. Bertha M. Mitchell, widow of Edward Hooker Mitchell, Welles road, Granby, will be held today at l p. m. at the Beecher and Bennett Funeral Home, Whalley avenue, New Haven. Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery, Hartford.
 Funeral services for William Downey, 60, resident manager of the Abbey Hotel, New York, were held today at 8:30 a. m. from the Harry s. Blair Sons Funeral Home, 723 Coney Island avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. A solemn high Mass Of re- quiem was celebrated at the Church of the Holy InnocentS at g. Burial was held in Brooklyn.
 MT .DoWney was hotel executive in New England and New York for 35 years and at one time was as sociated with the old Connecticut Hotel on Center street, for three years before moving to Springfield, Mass.
 The funeral of Miss Katherine McGrath, 40 Dikeman St. was held from the Bergin Funeral Home, 290 East Main St., today at 9:30 to the Church of the, Immaculate Concep- ton for a solemn high Mass of re- quiem at 10. Burial was in Calvary cemetery.
 The funeral of Joseph Vecchione, IS Normand St., was held today from the Colasanto Funeral Home, 932 Bank St., at 9 to the Church Of Our Lady of Mount Carmel for a solemn high Mass of requiem at 9:45. Burial was In Calvary ceme- tery.
 The funeral of Richard Elliott, prominent Southington business man and town clerk and treasurer of that town for Is years, was held tody at 9:30 a. m. from his home, Main St., Southingon, to St. Thom- as' Church, that town, for a solemn high Mass of requiem at 10. Burial was in St. Thomas's cemetery.
 Private funeral services will be held for Cynthia, Laraway, 15 months old daughter of MT. and Mrs. Sumner Laraway, 47 Warner Pl., from the LaPorta Funeral Home. 67 Holmes Ave, today at 2 D. m. with Rev. John J. Snavely, pastor of First Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Pine Grove cemetery.
 The child died Thursday night at St. Mary's Hospital where she was taken after Suf1erlng DurnS about the body in fire eight hours earlier at the home of her parents. The little girl, who received first and second degree burns, was snatched from her blazing bed by her mother who earlier rescued five other children.
 Funeral services for Rev. Arthur F. McKenney, 51, dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, and former curate in this city, will be held today at 2:30 p. m. at the Cathedral in Hartford. Dean Me- Kenney, who had been a patient at the New Haven Hospital since Saturday, suffering from a heart attack, died Thursday night. MT. McKenney served as assist ant to Rev. pr. John N. Lewis at St. Johns Episcopal Church in this city from 1929 to 1892. He came here again in 1941 to preach the first sermon at the church after the death of Dr. Lewis.