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- Adelia M. Sanderson Burdick - September 29, 1903 - January 23, 1966. Daughter of George and Mary O'Brien Sanderson. Wife of Raymond Duesler (married September 29, 1920, divorced) & Elmer W. Burdick. [Note: Raymond Duesler died April 7, 1974 and is buried in Riverview Cemetery, Baldwinsville, Onondaga County, New York.]
Newspaper Obituary - Monday, January 24, 1966 Watertown Daily Times - Watertown, New York - Man, Wife Killed In 2-Car Collision - Pulaski, January 24 - A Richland couple was killed early Sunday in a two-car collision on Route 13 about five miles east of this Oswego county village. Elmer W. Burdick, 71, operator of one of the vehicles, and his wife, Adelia M. Burdick, 62, were pronounced dead at the scene by Dr. A. B. Thompson, Pulaski, appointed coroner's physician. State police said the driver of the other car was charged with drunken driving. Autopsies performed Sunday by Dr. Eugene Studensky, Oswego county pathologist, revealed that Mr. Burdick died as a result of multiple injuries, a crushed chest and fractures of the skull, legs and arms. Mrs. Burdick's death resulted from a crushed chest and fractured skull according to the autopsy. Mr. and Mrs. Burdick became the first two highway fatalities this year in north Oswego County. Their bodies were released to the Foster funeral home here. Investigator 0. P. Honors and 0. H. Byrne, who headed the investigation, said William Sampson, 25, Altmar, the other vehicle operator, was charged with driving while intoxicated. He suffered facial cuts and a possible fractured ankle. Dr. Thompson and Assistant District Attorney Thomas McCarthy ordered the autopsies after investigation at the scene of the accident. Troopers said Burdick's car was proceeding west on the state highway when it and the Sampson car, eastbound, collided nearly head-on. The couple was killed instantly, they said. The scene of the accident was between Altmar and Williamstown in the town of Albion. Police said the weather was clear at 1:30 a.m. when the accident occurred. Mrs. Burdick had been employed as a night nurse at the Evergreen nursing home, this village. A double funeral service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Foster funeral home with Rev. Nelson Reppert, pastor of the Richland Methodist church, officiating. The bodies will be placed in the vault at Pulaski cemetery for spring burial. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 and Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Surviving Mr. Burdick are two daughters, Miss Jean Burdick, Syracuse, and Mrs. Frances Shoan, Jordan; a son, Harry Burdick, Militas, California; a step-daughter, Mrs. Gerald Denny, Richland; two brothers and three sisters in Jordan. Surviving Mrs. Burdick, in addition to her daughters, are her mother, Mrs. Floyd Walker, and step-mother, Mrs. Rose Anderson, both of Seneca Falls; five sisters, Mrs. Charles Cook and Mrs. Leo Valere, Seneca Falls; Mrs. Peter Lowers, Phoenix; Mrs. James Cunningham, Auburn, and Mrs. George Jones, Wolcott; two brothers, William Sanderson, Seneca Falls, and Robert Sanderson, Rochester; two half-brothers, Herbert and Peter Joshlin, Seneca Falls. Mr. Burdick was born October 3, 1894, in Jordan. He retired from the New York Central railroad in 1952. He operated a trolley car at Montezuma and was employed at the Curtis Lumber company, Richland, retiring in 1960. Mrs. Burdick was born in Montezuma on September 29, 1903, daughter of George and Mary O'Brien Sanderson and lived for a time in Baldwinsville. She was a practical nurse at the Oswego County Sanitarium for more than 17 years before it closed. Since that time she had been employed at the Evergreen nursing home.
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