McCOY, Lafayette Lamb 1909-1922

MCCOY, LAMB

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 7/31/2002 at 20:13:36

The Clinton Herald Tuesday March 7, 1922 p. 6 Death came into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Belknap McCoy at Breezy Point yesterday afternoon, taking therefrom the younger son, Lafayette Lamb McCoy, known to every one in the city as "Pudge," a lovable cherry chap. He had been ill for two weeks with an abscess in the ear and was apparently recovering; Sunday morning septic pneumonia developed, so rapidly that neither science nor nursing could do aught to stay its ravages and he passed away at 6:20 o'clock Monday, March 6. He was born February 15, 1909, at Breezy Point, was until his illness a student in the eighth grade classes in the Junior High school and had been entered for Hotchkiss Academy, Connecticut, in the fall. Although but 13 years of age very recently and stalwart for his years, "Pudge" was an inveterate reader and student and it was necessary to divert his attention from books to music and out of door sports. He loved athletics, coasting, skiing, skating and was one of the happiest of the boys and girls who daily visited the municipal rink. Yet with all his boyishness he had the heart and manner of a gentleman, courteous to his elders, kindly, and so thoroughly a comrade with his school boy friends that he was considered a pal by hundreds of lads whom his parents will never know. He was just a real American boy whose passing the community mourns, because of his personal charm and his great possibilities. Funeral services will be at the home tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, to be conducted by the Rev. James Magnus Duer of the First Presbyterian church. Burial will be in Srpingdale cemetery.