(January 3, 1938--November 28, 2000)

CANTON--The funeral for David J. Cady, 62, Riverside Drive, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Garner Funeral Home, Potsdam, with the Rev. John P. Kennehan offiating. Burial will be in Sevey family cemetery, Childwold.

Mr. Cady died Tuesday afternoon in Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Potsdam, where he had been admitted Monday.

Calling hours will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Mr. Cady began his radio career in Houston, Texas, moving to Watertown, where he was employed at WOTT Radio. He was an announcer and program director with WPDM radio, Potsdam, where he had an early morning show and used the slogan "Its daylight in the swamp," from the late 1960s until his retirement in 1998.

In 1974, he was named director of employee and community relations with Central St. Lawrence Health Services.

Born Jan. 3, 1938, in Childwold, son of Edward and Virginia Sevey Cady, he was a graduate of Stephen F. Austin High School, Austin, Texas, and attended the University of Texas, Austin. He married Joan A. Babbitt in 1958 at St. Andrew's Church, Norwood, with the Rev. Francis J. McGuire officiating. The marriage ended in divorce in 1963. He married Deborah Belyea on June 11, 1983. The marriage ended in divorce in 1997.

He was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge, enjoyed sailing, hunting and photography and was an actor in Watertown Little Theatre and Potsdam Community Theater productions. Mr. Cady was named citizen of the year in Potsdam in 1993. As a child, he spent summers in Star Lake.

Surviving are two sons and a daughter-in-law, David J. II and Cynthia, Grand Island, and Duane J., Marietta, Ga.; a daughter and her husband, Laura Jean and Michael Farber, Jacksonville, Fla., and five grandchildren.

Donations may be made to Hospice of St. Lawrence Valley, Potsdam animal shelter or Community Nursing Home, Potsdam.

(Taken from the Thursday, November 30, 2000 edition of the Watertown Daily

Times, page 31)