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From the New York Daily News, Saturday, October 16, 1954
Mrs. Tinie Greene, 87, mother of Abe J. Greene, commissioner of the National Boxing Association and Associate Editor of the Paterson Evening News, died yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Irving Blank, at 410 East 38th St., Paterson, NJ.
Funeral services for Nicholas Schuldt, 36, traffic consultant and nephew of Frank Hoffman, of the building department of The News, will be held at 10am Monday in Immaculate Conception Church, Secaucus, NJ. Schuldt died Thursday in his home at 174 Pandolfi Ave., Secaucus.
NY Journal-American, Sunday, September 5, 1954
Rites for Henry A. Smith, 82, New York architect who originated the "open stair" multi-family apartment house, will be held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Green Wood Cemetery
Chapel, Norwalk, Conn. He died Friday in his home at 9 Eversley ave., Norwalk. He is survived by his wife, May.
BRIDGTON, Maine, Sept. 4 (AP) - The Rev, Emmett W. Rankin, 86, father of Karl L. Rankin, U.S. Ambassador to Nationalist China, died last night after a long illness. A native of Paola, Kan., the Rev. Mr. Rankin was pastor the South Bridgton Congregational church from 1930 to 1932 and served eight years in Maine's House of Representatives after retiring from the ministry. He also served at the Presbyterian Church in Baldwin, L.I.
A rite for Col. Eugene McKibbin Froment, 75, former president of the Veterans Association of the 7th Regiment and retired steel manufacturer,
will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Riverside Church, Riverside dr. and 122st. He died Thursday at the Honesdale, Pa., Hospital. He was formerly associated with his father and his brother Louis in the steel firm his father founded. He joined the National Guard in 1897 and retired as a full colonel in 1924.
New York Daily News, Tuesday, September 7, 1954
Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus, 78, USN, retired, died today at the Newport Naval Hospital. Admiral Kalbfus twice was president of the Naval War College, and was in command of the Newport Naval Base from 1941 through the war. He retired in 1946.
New York Daily News, Thursday, September 9, 1954
Funeral services for Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly, of 1 E. 71st St., great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vandelbilt(sic), will be held at 11 A.M. next Wednesday in St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church, Fifth Ave. and 53d St. She died Sept. 1 in Paris.
New York Daily News, Friday, September 10, 1954
Chicago, Sept. 9 (CTPS). - Services for Chauncey McCormick, 69, art patron and civic leader, will be held at 11 A.M. Saturday in the First Presbyterian Church of suburban Wheaton, of which he was an elder. McCormick died last night after suffering a heart attack at his summer home in Seal Harbor, Maine. He leaves his wife, Marion Deering McCormick, and three sons, C. Deering, Brooks and Roger. Private services were to be held at Seal Harbor today.
Decorated in War...
A grandson of William S. McCormick, co-founder of the farm machinery firm, Chauncey McCormick served as an Army captain in France and Poland in World War I. He received the Purple Heart, two French medals and a citation from Gen. Pershing. In Europe he met Herbert Hoover and they became fast friends. McCormick organized Polish food relief after World War I and directed Polish relief during World War II.
Last year Hoover named McCormick head of a special group studying federal medical services as part of the Hoover Commission's efforts to streamline the government.
Wide Range of Interests...
McCormick's activities covered a wide range. He held high posts in the International Harvester Corp., the Miami Corp., the Chicago Art Institute, the American Foundation for the Blind, the Chicago Foundlings' Home and the McCormick Theological Seminary.
He organized the art exhibit at the Chicago Century of Progress in 1933 and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936.
He was a cousin of Col. Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune.
