(April 16, 1920-January 9, 2003)

POTSDAM--Spring burial for Thomas Joseph McBurnie, 82, Potsdam, will be in Calvary Cemetery, Norwood.

Mr. McBurnie died Thursday in Canton-Potsdam Hospital, where he had been a patient since Tuesday.

There will be no funeral or calling hours. Arrangements are with Garner Funeral Home.

He served in the Army during World War II in the European theater from 1941 to 1945 and was employed by Raquette River Paper Co., for five years. He worked at Raquette River Dam, at Syracuse, Supply Co., on construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, Massena, and at J.C. Merriman’s, Norwood. He was employed by Clarkson College of Technology, now Clarkson University, from 1967 until his retirement in 1982.

Born April 16, 1920, in Manhattan, son of Charles and May Scott McBurnie, he attended Theodore Roosevelt High School, Bronx. He married Margaret M. Brogan on Dec. 27, 1945, at St. Mary’s church with the Rev. Joseph L. Tierney officiating. She died Aug. 1, 2001.

He was a communicant of St. Mary’s Church.

Surviving are three sons and a daughter-in-law, Michael C., Minturn, Colo., Thomas J. and Barbara, Parishville, and John P., Avon, Colo.; a brother, Charles, Leonardo, N.J.; three sisters, Mary Pagano and Grace Brogan, both of New Rochelle, and Mildred Clark, Wallingford, Conn.; three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

A sister, Joan MacKenzie, died before him.

Donations may be made to Potsdam Food and Friendship Center, Midtown Apartments.

(From the Saturday, January 11, 2003 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page D7).