(March 7, 1912-September 29, 2004)

POTSDAM--The funeral for Beulah L. Chase, 92, town of Potsdam, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Seymour Funeral Home with the Rev. Charles Gardner officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Norwood.

Mrs. Chase died Wednesday at her home.

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

She was dining room supervisor for 20 years at Canton Agricultural and Technical College.

She was a member of the Hilltoppers Senior Citizens, Norwood and Hopkinton Senior Citizens clubs, was the oldest living charter member of the West Potsdam Fire Department Auxiliary and enjoyed dancing and going to senior citizens meetings.

Born March 7, 1912, in the town of Stockholm, a daughter of Andrew L. and Lulu Martin Wells, she married Robert C. Chase on March 23, 1931, in Norwood. He died March 20, 1973.

Surviving are three sons and two daughters-in-law, Allan and Letha, Marshall, and Harold and Beverly, all of Potsdam; two daughters and their husbands, Helen and Eugene Osgood and Keitha and Donald Tebo, all of Potsdam; a daughter-in-law, Betty Chase, Potsdam, 25 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren, 14 great-great-grandchildren, two step grandchildren, six step great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Two sons, Rodney and Larry, twin daughters who died at birth, three brothers, Corbin, Alton and Robert Wells, a sister, Blanche Keeler, and two grandsons died before her.

(From the Friday, October 1, 2004 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page D7).