June 11, 2008  

LOWVILLE, N.Y.  —  A funeral Mass for George F. Veitch, 97, formerly of Brookside Senior Living Community, will be said 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 17, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Lowville, with Rev. Timothy J. Soucy, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in the Beaches Bridge Cemetery. 

There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are with Iseneker Funeral Home, Inc., Lowville. 

Contributions may be made to Friends of Lewis County Hospice, P.O. Box 266, Lowville, NY 13367.

Mr. Veitch died April 25 at the Lewis County Residential Health Care Facility, where he had resided since January 2006.

Surviving are two sons, William G. Veitch, Syracuse, and Frederick C. and Flo, Okechobee, Fla.; four daughters, Veronica F. and James Proulx, Central Square, Juanita M. Briot, Croghan, Nancy A. and Doug Renodin, Lowville, and Pauline E. Babcock, Lowville; 37 grandchildren, 73 great-grandchildren and 21 great-great grandchildren; a sister, Alberta Salgado, Las Cruces, N.M.; several nieces and nephews and cousins. 

Two sisters, Virginia Muncy and Dorothy Briggs, died before him. 

Born June 4, 1910, in Mohawk, N.Y., a son of William G. and Eva Maude Waller Veitch, he worked from the age of 12 at various jobs including farming, logging, at the Pontiac Plant in Pontiac, Mich. 

He worked for the telephone company, laying the line in Old Forge and Blue Mountain Lake, for the English Flooring factory in Croghan, and the Basket Factory in Lowville.  He also worked daily work jobs for area residents during the depression.  

Mr. Veitch married Nellie A. Dickinson on June 11, 1928, at Calvary Church, Utica.  The marriage ended in divorce, he later remarried.  

He worked for Kraft at the Cheese Cold Storage from 1933 to 1972, retiring as superintendent.  He then moved to Arizona, residing in Tucson until 2000 when he moved to Brookside Senior Living Community. 

He enjoyed woodworking, and loved gardening and growing flowers, especially roses and working outside. He loved reading, especially history. He loved country music and dancing and cross country traveling. He was very artistic.

Information provided by Iseneker Funeral Home, Inc. of Lowville and Newzjunky, Watertown, N.Y.