Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Pauline Gelia DODGE

Obituary (from newspaper of 23 Sept. 1953):  SACKETS HARBOR---Pauline Gelia Dodge Signor, 47, wife of Earl F. Signor, died at 12:40 this morning at the House of the Good Samaritan in Watertown where she had been a patient since Sept. 7.  She
had been ill for a year and a half.

    The body was taken to the Poli Funeral Home, Watertown.

    Surviving besides her husband are a daughter, Mrs. Eugene (Ellen) Nagy, Cleveland, O.; three sons, First Sgt. Gary R. Signor, Camp Hanford, Wash.; James Signor and Gene D. Signor, both of Sackets Harbor; her parents, Ward and Maude Jackson
Dodge, Sackets Harbor; two sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Margaret) Butts, Flint, Mich., and Mrs. Hawley (Evelyn) McAnulty, Sackets Harbor.

    Mrs. Signor was born March 20, 1906, in the town of Lyme.  She moved with her family to Pillar Point when she was three and then to the town of Rutland before coming to Sackets Harbor in 1918.  In 1925 she was graduated from the Sackets
Harbor High School.

    On Sept. 2, 1925, she was married at the home of her parents to Mr. Signor, son of the late Daniel and Harriet Stokes Signor of Sackets Harbor.  Rev. Miles S. Hutchinson, pastor of the Sackets Harbor Methodist Episcopal Church at that
time, performed the ceremony.

    The couple lived first at Sackets Harbor and moved to Dexter, returning to this village in 1942.


Hawley MCANULTY

Obituary (from newspaper of 19 Jan. 1976):  Hawley D. McAnulty, 73, of Nokomis, Fla., formerly of Sackets Harbor, a career Army officer and former operator of taxi companies in Watertown, died Sunday in Clark County Hospital, Arkadelphia, Ark.
Mr. McAnulty and his wife had been visiting their oldest son and family for the holidays and their 50th wedding anniversary.

    Arrangements are with the Murry-Ruggles Funeral Home, Arkadelphia.  Burial will be in Arkadelphia.

    He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Evelyn E. Dodge McAnulty; two sons, Donald, Arkadelphia, and David, in Virginia; eight grandchildren, and a great-grandson.

    Mr. McAnulty attended Dry Shool and Mount Pleasant School in North Carolina and joined the Army Nov. 1, 1920, and served a short time at Fort Bragg, N.C., two years at Camp Dix, N.J., and 14 years at Madison Barracks, Sackets Harbor.

    He was stationed at Schofield Barrack, Honolulu, at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack.  He served with the 25th Division in the Pacific during World War II and saw action at Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, and New Zealand.

    He retired after 25 years of service in 1944 with the rank of warrant officer and returned to Sackets Harbor to live.

    He married the former Miss Evelyn E. Dodge, of Sackets Harbor, Jan. 7, 1926.

    He managed the General Cab, Inc., Watertown, for nine years until its sale in October, 1953, to John W. Hall.  In December, 1953, he purchased the New City Line Taxi and operated the firm as the Union Cab Co., 291 State St., until January,
1957, when it went out of business.

    Mr. McAnulty had driven a school bus for Hounsfield Central School.  Mr and Mrs. McAnulty moved to Florida from Sackets Harbor in 1970.