View source for Wesley C. Fadden



'''Born: '''November 18, 1880

'''Died: '''September 15, 1957

'''Married: '''[[Alice%20Fadden|Alice Wilcox]]

'''Children: '''Mrs. Cora DeWitt, Henry Fadden, Howard Fadden, Alfred Fadden

'''Wesley C. Fadden''' worked as yard foreman for the [[Kendall%20Lumber|Kendall Lumber]]. Later he worked as a carpenter. For his last twelve years he was an Inspector of electric wire at the Rome Cable Plant, Rome, N. Y., until failing health forced his retirement a year before his death.  His name appears in a list of [[Forest%20Rangers%20and%20Fire%20Observers|forest rangers, mountain observers, plantation and railroad patrolmen]].  He is buried in the [[Merrillsville%20Cemetery|Merrillsville Cemetery]].
-----

''Adirondack Daily Enterprise, ''September 17, 1957

'''Wesley C. Fadden Funeral Services'''

Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Wesley C. Fadden, who died Sunday at the [[Saranac%20Lake%20General%20Hospital|Saranac Lake General Hospital]], where he had been a patient for three days. Dr. [[E.%20Holt%20Hughes|E. Holt Hughes]], pastor of the [[Bloomingdale%20Methodist%20Church|Bloomingdale Methodist Church]] will conduct the services in the [[Fortune%20Funeral%20Home|Fortune Funeral Home]], where the body is reposing. Interment will be in [[Merrillsville%20Cemetery|Merrillsville Cemetery]].

Pall bearers are grandchildren Alfred and Peter DeWitt, and [[Alfred%20Fadden|Alfred]] and [[David%20Fadden|David Fadden]].

Mr. Fadden was born on November 18, 1880 in Jeffersonville, Vt, the son of Henry and Emma Gibson Fadden. He spent has early childhood in [[Merrillsville|Merrillsville]]. He moved to Saranac Lake and worked as yard foreman for the [[Kendall%20Lumber|Kendall Lumber Co]]. until he retired a year ago. Since his retirement he lived at [[5%20Virginia%20Street|5 Virginia Street]] in Saranac Lake. Mr. Fadden is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Cora DeWitt of Buffalo; three sons, Henry, Watertown, Howard of Cheektowaga and Alfred of Elizabethtown; two sisters, Mrs. George Belmont of Merrillsville, and Mrs. Loren Hebler of Buffalo; eleven grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.