(1903-July 11, 1965)

Norwood--Glenn W. Cassidy, 64, of Marcellus, a native of Norwood and newspaperman of Norwood for burial Wednesday afday (newspaper error) in the Syracuse Community Hospital after a brief illness.

The funeral will be held at the family home, Marcellus, Wednesday morning at 10:30. The body will be taken to Norwood for burial Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 in the Riverside Cemetery.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. May LaTarte Cassidy; his mother, Mrs. Louise Cassidy of Norwood, who is in her early 90’s and who is now staying with her daughter, Miss Dorothy Cassidy, Port Erie, Ont., and relatives in Norwood. His only son, Albert Cassidy, was killed during World War II.

Born in Norwood in 1903, he was a son of Albert and Louise Cassidy. He attended Norwood schools, He learned the printing business with his uncle, Asa Nickerson, in the former Norwood News. After several years with that newspaper, he went to Syracuse where he had been associated with the Syracuse Post Standard and the Herald Journal, in that city for years. He retired from the Herald-Journal two years ago.

Mr. Cassidy married May LaTarte of Syracuse. They lived in Syracuse. Following his retirement the couple bought a home in Marcellus. He visited relatives in Norwood over the past Memorial weekend.

(From the Pauline Deshaies collection, original source unknown).

(Note: Riverside Cemetery records show Mr. Cassidy as being 68 at the time of his death, and his date of birth as 1896. CBM).