(July 19, 1917-August 13, 1944)

Norwood, August 14--Fred T. Laramy, 27, Norwood, died at 1:30 a.m. Sunday at the Hepburn hospital, Ogdensburg, after having been unconscious for nearly five months as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

Mr. Laramy suffered a fractured skull of March 26, when he was struck by a car after he had stopped his own machine to clear the windshield of sleet. The accident occurred on the Potsdam-Canton road, near Eben, during a blinding storm. He had since been in the Potsdam and Hepburn hospitals, never having come out of the coma induced by the head injury.

Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the home of his mother, Mrs. Sadie Laramy, Lang Street, Rev. William C. Wood pastor o the Norwood Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be at Riverside cemetery, Norwood.

Surviving, besides his mother and his father, Charles Laramy, are his wife, the former Miss Ida Simmons, of Heuvelton, and a daughter, Barbara, also of Heuvelton, and his grandfather, Moses Laramy, of Chateaugay.

He was born July 19, 1917, and attended the Norwood High School and in September 1939, married the former Miss Simmons at Madrid, Rev. Lawrence Heatherington, Black River, former Madrid Methodist pastor performing the ceremony.

At the time of the accident the deceased was employed as a crane operator at the Massena plant of the Aluminum Company of America.

(From the Friday, August 18, 1944 edition of the Chateaugay Record, courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ http://news.nnyln.net).