(October 25, 1916-August 26, 2004)

NORWOOD--A funeral Mass for Joseph LaLone, 87, of 392 Pleasant Valley Road, will be at 10- a.m. Monday in St. Mary’s Church, Potsdam, with the Rev. Garry B. Giroux officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Potsdam.

Mr. LaLone died Thursday at his home.

Calling hours will from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Garner Funeral Home, Potsdam.

Mr. LaLone worked on farms in the Brasher-Massena area, at Aluminum Company of America, Massena, and Potsdam Paper Mill before purchasing a dairy farm in 1948 and operating it until 1983. He also worked for Agway, delivered milk for Dairylea and later sent milk to Kraft.

He attended St. Mary’s Church and was said to have been a great storyteller.

Born Oct. 25, 1916, at Brasher Iron Works, son of Ernest and Phoebe LaVare LaLone, he grew up on a dairy farm and attended rural schools both at Brasher Iron Works. He married Shirley Graves on Jan. 10, 1942.

Surviving besides his wife are two sons, Joseph, Norco, Calif., and John, Killeen, Texas; four daughters and a son-in-law, Jane LaLone, Poughkeepsie, Ruth and Andy Burnett and Kathy LaLone, all of Potsdam, and Elaine LaLone, Norwood; a brother, William LaLone, Massena, nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Seven sisters, Elizabeth Bylow, Sarah Sabins, Mildred Marion, Grace Knight, Alice Blair and Mary and Jane LaLone, two brothers, John and Delbert, and a grandson died before him.

Donations may be made to Hospice & Palliative Care of St. Lawrence Valley or to the FFA program at Potsdam Central School, 29 Leroy St., Potsdam, N.Y. 13676.

(From the Saturday, August 28, 2004 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page D5).