(June 12, 1908-July 14, 1967)

A service was held this morning at 11 o’clock at the Richer Funeral Home for Lynn Keith Cheney, 59, who was found dead in his room at the Tobin Apartments in downtown Tupper Lake about 2:30 p.m. Friday. The Rev. A. Russell Stevenson officiated and burial was in Gale Cemetery in Childwold.

He was born in Potsdam, June 12, 1908 and had made his home in Tupper Lake for the past ten years. He was employed at the Adirondack Jamestown Furniture Plant as a machine operator. Prior to coming to Tupper Lake, he lived in Conifer and worked at the Conifer Lumber Mills.

Survivors include a son, Darwin Cheney of Piercefield; two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Virginia) Arsenault or Tupper Lake and Miss Elaine Cheney, of Hartford, Conn.

(From the Monday, July 17, 1967 edition of the Saranac Lake Adirondack Daily Enterprise, courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ http://news.nnyln.net/).