June 26, 2008  

CARTHAGE, N.Y.  —  Harold R. "Sonny" Newton, 66, of 428 South Mechanic St., died Wednesday, June 25, at St. Josephs Hospital Center, Syracuse. He had been ill for a few days.

Born on Dec. 9, 1941, at home in Carthage, son of Harold and Bertha Bishop Newton, he attended Carthage Augustinian Academy and Carthage High School. He served in the Navy from 1959 to 1962. 

He married Marsha Olds on Aug. 3, 1963 at Woolworth Memorial United Methodist Church, Great Bend. 

Mr. Newton retired in 1996 as a paper maker from the Crown Zellerbach Paper Mill in Carthage. 

He was a member of the St. James Church in Carthage. 

Mr. Newton enjoyed camping, fishing, hunting and carpentry.

Surviving are his wife, Marsha; two daughters, Cindy Smith, Antwerp, and Tonya Flint, Carthage; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Harold Robert Newton II, Bruce, Wisconsin, and Alonzo and Rosa C. Newton, Syracuse; five sisters and two brothers-in-law, Donna Newton, address unknown, Linda Sanders, Carthage; Joan Newton, Florida, Charlene and David Curtis, Ashford Hollow, N.Y., and Mary and Thomas Hoffman, Florida; and seven grandchildren. 

A calling hour will be held 1 to 2 p.m. Monday, June 30. A funeral service will follow at 2 p.m. Monday, June 30, in the Chapel of the Bossuot-Lundy Funeral Home, Inc., with Rev. George F. Maroun, pastor of St. James Catholic Church in Carthage, officiating. Burial will be held privately.

Arrangements are being handled by the Bossuot-Lundy Funeral Home, Inc., Carthage.

Information provided by Bossuot-Lundy Funeral Home, Inc., and Newzjunky.com, Watertown, N.Y.