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Note: Served in ww1 FRANK STEVENS, SUPR.OF ET0WN, PASSES AWAY The North Country was deeply saddened on Thursday, December 21, 1967, to learn of the death of Frank A. Stevens, Supervisor of the Town of Elizabethtown. Mr. Stevens had undergone surgery on November 24th and had been battling to overcome complications resulting therefrom for the past month. He was a patient at deGoesbriand Memorial Unit of the Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vermont. Frank Stevens, son of Elnathan and Martha Calkins Stevens, was born in Keeseville, New York, on November 5, 1893. He attended elementary school in Keeseville and high school in Essex, graduiting from the latter institution. Having chosen pharmacy as his Future profession, he entered Albany College of Pharmacy in 1915 and was licensed to practice in the State of New York in 1917. He was united in marriage to Miss Frieda Stafford of Essex in June, 1917. This union was terminated by her death at childbirth in October, 1919. Mr. Stevens answered his country's call to service in World War I and served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps at Camp Meade, Maryland, until December, 1918. In the fall of 1920 he moved from Essex to Elizabethtown to accept employment in the C. N. Willams Pharmacy, taking up residence in the 'harles Slavin boarding house. On September 1, 1921, he was united in marriage to Analita Augusta Brown of that village; and to them were born three children: Frank Durand, Margaret Analita and Rosemary. Early in their married life they included in their family another "son,1 Donald W. DeFay. They purchased a home on Route 9, south of Elizabethtown, in 1924, where they have resided ever since. After eighteen years as pharmacist for the Williams Pharmacy, except for short intervals at the Larkin Pharmacy in Plattsburgh, and as local agent for John Han cock Mutual Life Insurance Company, he established Ms awn phar. macy in conjunction with the KiA Grocery Store in Lewis, N. Y. In 1941 he returned to the C. N. Williams Pharmacy as owner, the family continuing the business enterprises in Lewis simultaneously for about three years. At this time, in order to devote his full effort to the larger pharmacy practice, he consolidated the Lewis Pharmacy with the Williams Pharmacy and sold the grocery business. He re-established the Williams Pharmacy as a town landmark and became, himself, a] highly respected and well beloved institution "on the corner." Frank was a member of tihe Masonic Order, having been initiated, passed, and raised on Aug.1, 1916, in Iriquois Lodge at Essex, N. Y. He affiliated with Adirondack Lodge No. 602, F.&AJM. on April 22, 1924 and filled all of the offices in that body, presiding as Master of his Lodge in 1935. He continued to be one oi the most active Masons in northern New York State, serving hjs Lodge as Secretary for thirty years, twenty three of them consecutively. In addition, he was twice appointed to high Masonic offices by the Grand Lodge Of the State of New York: Assistant Grand Lecturer in 1934-35 and District Deputy Grand Master 1939-40. Frank's Masonic efforts will continue for years to come through the activities of the myriad of younger Masons throughout this" district whom he taught and advised on the ritual and basic tenets of Freemasonary. frank was also an extremely active member of Adiroitdack Star Chapter No. 677, Order of the Eastern Star. He served his Chapter as Patron for several years, and was appointed Assistant Grand Lecturer of the District in 1926. Other organizations to which he gave active service over the years that he spent in Elizabethtown, included the American Legion, Boy Scouts of America, Kiwanis Club, Civil Defense and Etizabethtown iFish and Game ClUb; He has been a member of the United Congregations Church of Elizabethtown since the local Baptist Church united with that group. During the later years of his business career, Frank began to actively participate in a phase of activity wihieh had long been of prime interest to him — public aifaims of his township. He entered this field when appointed to fill the unexpired term of Town Councilman Raymond F. Agnew a post to which he was re-elected at the next election. He next was appointed to the post of Justice of the Peace n April 1959 upon the retirement of William A. Knowlton. Again he was elected to succeed himself at the scheduled election n 1960. He continued to serve in this capacity until March, 1963, when, upon the retirement of John A.Deming, he was appointed to the post of Supervisor of the Town of Elizabethtown, a position that he continued to fill through reelection, until his death. His public service totalled nearly eleven years, during which time he was never opposed in an election. He proudly counted among the town improvements during his term of office the erection and furnishing For the majority of his public service, Frank has earned the admiration and esteem of the community as much for his courage and determination as for his accomplishments. He hes continued to be a dynamic and motivating force despite physical handicaps resulting from a serious automobile accident and the amptation of his left leg. Not only did he continue to perform his duties and participate in civic activites of every nature, he continued to extend a helping hand to all with his usual good nature and cheery disposition. He will be remembered by all as a true and devoled friend and a public servant of sterling caliber. Frank is survived by his widow, Analita B(rown) Stevens of Elizabethtown; his son, Lt. Col. Frank Durand Stevens of Wieslock/Baden, West Germany; a daughter, Margaret Ezro of Candor, N. Y.; a daughter, Rosemary Sanders of Juneau, Alaska; a foster son, Donald W. DeFay of Coronado, California and his family; one brother, Harry of Hackettstown, N. J., a brother-in-Iaw, John J. Walsh of Hackettstown, N. J.; fourteen grandchildren, one great grandchild, Cashell Jaquish of Albany, N. Y. and many nieces and nephews. A Masonic funeral service was held at Marvin's Funeral Home on Saturday evening, December 23, which was attended by one of the largest groups of Masons in the memory of those attending, from throughout the North Country. iFuneral services were conducted from the United Congregations Church on Sunday, December 24, with Military Rites at the graveside. Interment was in Riverside Cemetery, Bearers were Duncan Bey, Roy Baker, Albert Denton, Bernard Porter, John Mahoney, and Benjamin Hooper. Town officials, members of the Town Board and the County Board of Supervisors attended the services in a body
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