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Hugh MCCORMICK

Obituary:  DEXTER, Sept. 16.---Hugh McCormick, 65, a farmer on the Weaver Road, Chaumont, R.D. 1, died unexpectedly at 7 p.m. Saturday while doing the milking in the barn.

    Although he had not been well at times, Mr. McCormick was able to do his farm work and felt well on Saturday. Mrs. McCormick had been helping in the barn, went to the house briefly and when she returned about 20 minutes later, found her
husband had slumped from the milking stool to the floor.  Death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage.

    The funeral will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Johnson Funeral Home, Rev. Philip N. Tonkin, retired Methodist minister of Dexter, officiating.  Burial will be in Dexter Cemetery.  Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9
p.m. today.

    Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hazel Kittle McCormick; two brothers, J. Hazael, Limerick, and Frank, Dexter; four step-daughters, Mrs. David (Marjorie) Vranchich, Youngstown, O.; Mrs. Gene (Mildred) Hoover, San Diego, Calif.; Mrs. Donald
(Arlene) Genter, Carthage; and Mrs. Donald (Beverly) Boshart, Calcium; and 16 step-grandchildren.

    Mr. McCormick was born May 31, 1898 on the Smith Road in the town of Brownville, a son of William H. and Julia Munson McCormick.  He attended rural schools in the area.  In 1922, he purchased a farm on the Weaver Road and had lived there
since.

    He married twice.  On April 17, 1922, he married Miss Hazel E. Brown, a daughter of the late George M. and Sedate Kilburn Brown, in Dexter.  She died Dec. 25, 1936, at the age of 36.

    On Sept. 9, 1944, in the parsonage of the First Methodist Church, Watertown, with Rev. Albert Abbott officiating.  He married Mrs. Hazel Greenizen, daughter of the late George H. and Lillian Mosher Kittle.

    Mr. McCormick was a member of Dexter Grange 724, of which he was a past master, and of Pomona, State and National Granges.