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WixsonEntered as second-class LOCAL NEWS FEA chatter at the Post Office TURES, I N FORMA -"I �� e Wappingers, Fulls. N• Y. TION EVERY ISSUE. The Single Copies, 3 Cents 'YOL. I. No. 23 \V-�PPINGERS F,\LLS N. Y- FRIDAY I EB.26, 1937. WIXSON 11*J�IES St H. r John 11. 1\ nsou, lifelong business JOHN H. WIXSON DIES FEB. 26 Continued from page one his home. Also four sisters, Mrs. Joanna Jackson, Mrs. Violet Flagler, of Poughkeepsie, Mrs. George Britner of this willage, NIrs. George Terwilliger of Mewburgh and one nephew Roy Jackson of Nughkeepsie• Fun-, 6 ral arrangement are 1n charge of Cashni Memorial Home and have not yet been completed. re-tdcut and promuunt man of Wapping',, balls, drUP- j,--,i dead ill Itis Mute un East Alain Street, at 8:.,0 this nwru- u,g "I'he cause was given as heart t.,ilure, accompanied by a sud- hn stloj:e. 11e taus aluue in the ,tare at tlae time. Nr. AYi�suu was a kind and eulle utas and was loved by all bu knew bill. A life lung ,,rate, lie Ile served the village fur a uuotber of Fears. AII- A\ iasou as 21rd V' ice -President of the 1Xapp1ugers Savings hank, and was the oldest member of the ,lard of trustee_, ill age alld "wilt of service. Ile was chair-. aan of the t'unding Committee fur 23 years and was elected trustee on April 13, 11907. Ills fratental aifiliatious at lac time of his de�th, included he Nfiasouic LodgetOdd bellow Jr. order of AnIc6ca l A,Igc- panics, Zion Church N ll"s club and the 11 ell club Of the b'l. L. Church. IIe also ii0d the posi- tion of the __Chapla�u in tIle;Odd Fellmtds and was a trusteeof the o same rder. Ile wits a ntenrbcr of this ludge for �j6 years. Ills civic life composed „f of filations ,Villi the bVappingfrs l emttery :Assoc of which he was tru_;tuc for the past _'_' \gars and held tl[e office" ut for lite past four years. Ile serve,I the T,,,vn of \1'appingars front 181)ti to 11)02 it, inwn dcil;. _At nuc time he served as collector fur town. Ile was Chairman of Ibc ,lection Ln+nd of llistrirl. No. me of [lie to,cll aal'i at one tial,: ,cal village Ucasurcr. Ile at one tinge worked fur .A_ AV'. _Arut'[- rong as a phuubcr :old Iinsuti[h and tbcu a bu;ill— ai th, >nnnr ti lc. \iill:ard I.nn,h,r +uul ( '[) , ill pall'. AV'.al,l,iu rrs Fall; ''aa ill n,l to 1—c socb a fine all, respect'd ,'iwen_ Ills nulinuh de;a[h came as a distinct ,talc[ to Itis family awl countless mint I'll of fricuds hcrC. 11c went. flu his snail as usual this morning and upon relnntiug to hi; plan Of business was ssrizcd with th, nears attach that proved fatal Ile is survived by tw© daughter Miss Carolyn Wixson and Afr: Lewis Smith with wham Tae mad Continued ore page eight