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- WALTER PIZON TOOLMAKER
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - November 16, 1996Browse Issues
Walter Pizon, 81, of 9 Glen Ave., died Thursday at Samaritan Medical Center, Watertown.
Mr. Pizon was a toolmaker employed by General Electric Co., Syracuse, for 30 years, retiring in 1979.
Born April 4, 1915, in Coketon, W.Va., son of Stanley and Nellie Polczak Pizon, he had lived in Pulaski since 1927. He served in the Navy from 1942 to 1945, seeing some duty in the Pacific theater.
He married LaVelle B. Shaw on Jan. 20, 1937.
Mr. Pizon was a member and past commander of Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358, a member of Pulaski Veterans of Foriegn Wars 7289 and the Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni of Volney.
Surviving besides his wife are a son, Edmund D., Liverpool; two daughters, Florence M. Gardner and A. Yvonne Trumble, both of Altmar; three brothers, Watson, Winter Haven, Fla., Charles, Lacona, and Lucien, Chicago, Ill.; two sisters, Virginia Quattro, Rome, and Alice Tucker, Oneida Castle; 12 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
A son, Robert, died in 1943.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Foster-Hax Funeral Home with the Rev. Elizabeth Mowry officiating. Spring burial will be in Pulaski Cemetery.
Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, 52 Park St.
Contributions may be made to Northern Oswego County Ambulance, Delano Street.
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