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Montford S. Corley - Record Delta
Monday, March 27, 2017Anne E. Corley of Wake Forest. Mr. Corley was a member of the Belington Lodge 125 A.F. & A.M. and a 32nd Degree Mason with the Wheeling Lodge. Mr. Corley was a foreman for Consol Energy and was a member of the Chamberlayne Height United Methodist Church in Richmond, Va. Friends will be received Wednesday, March 15, 2017 from 5-8 p.m. A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home with Rev. Steven Meadows officiating. Burial will follow in the Broad Run Cemetery at Jane Lew. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.polingstclair.com. Poling-St. Clair Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Monday, March 27, 2017LONGMEADOW -- Several public works vehicles from around the region are expected to take part in the funeral procession today for Longmeadow DPW foreman Warren Cowles, who was killed last week when his snowplow was struck by a train.Warren CowlesSubmitted photo The funeral for Cowles will be 11 a.m. at Curran Funeral Home, 109 Main St., West Springfield. Burial is to follow at St. Mary's Cemetery in Westfield.The New England chapter of the American Public Works Association said that chapter members and DPW crews from severla communities will take part in the motorcade to honor Cowles. Participants will be dressed in florescent yellow safety gear."We will line the streets with public works employees dressed in their yellow safety jackets and provide a fleet of trucks to follow the funeral procession as a tribute to Warren and his family," said Needham Public Works Director, Richard Merson, past president of the New England chapter of the American Public Works Association (NEAPWA). Cowles, 59, of Longmeadow was killed March 14 in a collision between his snowplow and an Amtrak train on Birnie Road. Cowles was plowing the road at...
Monday, March 13, 2017Stafford worked as horse groomer and scrap iron dealer before returning to the railroad. There, his hard work and reputation led to jobs of increasing responsibility, culminating as a supervising foreman before his retirement in 1982.Along the way, Stafford married Beatrice Bragg. Their first home, four acres of land and a leaky house, was purchased for $175. Beatrice brought in additional income as a domestic worker, but continued her education while raising their children. She eventually earned a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education and worked as a teacher for more than 30 years.Stafford coped with the restrictions of being a black man in the Deep South over much of his lifetime. Even fun family outings were dampened by the ever-present Jim Crow, forcing him to use the back door of the local Dairy Queen because the staff would not serve a black man in the front of the store.“He’d be so dejected when he came back,” Harold recalled. “He was embarrassed but he’d always say there’s a brighter day ahead.”Stafford, however, didn’t become involved in the civil rights movement of the 60s.“I’m not saying he never felt bitter or that he wasn’t happy about the condition under which he and other blacks lived at the time,” Harold said. “His concern was to make the best of a bad situation.”Stafford always encouraged his children to better themselves through education.“It was always very strongly enforced in the family that education was the key to equal opportunity in America,” Harold said. “And we always were told you can’t expect to be given anything in this world, you have to go out and make it happen.”Harold said it was important that he write the book about his father.“First off, I wanted the Stafford family to know about him,” he said. “I learned a lot of things that they didn’t know, I felt an obligation to tell the story.“Also, I see my dad as an unsung, unseen hero,” Harold added. “I wanted to chronicle his life so that our family, our friends and our community and maybe the world would know what a great man he was, and what you could accomplish, even with a sixth-grade education.”Harold’s book is subtitled “An American Dream Fulfilled.”“My dad not only had this dream about his own life and what he wanted to accomplish, but he did it against some very big odds,” Harold said. “He wanted to make sure his family had a quality of life that was better than his had been.”And although some may think the nickname “Water boy” to be derogatory, his father never considered that, Harold said.“He wore that name proudly,” he said. “He was proud he had that job with the railroad, it was a way out of poverty.”Harold highly recommends others taking the time to sit down with their elders and learn from them.“After having written this book about my dad and his experiences, when I see older people I have such a renewed appreciation for them,” he said. “You never can tell what they’ve done, or what their lives have been like.”A signed copy of Harold’s book, “Ellis ‘Water Boy’ Stafford: An American Dream Fulfilled,” is available directly from him by calling 697-0622; unsigned copies may be ordered through amazon.com. The cost is $12.95.
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Montford S. Corley - Record Delta
Monday, March 27, 2017Anne E. Corley of Wake Forest. Mr. Corley was a member of the Belington Lodge 125 A.F. & A.M. and a 32nd Degree Mason with the Wheeling Lodge. Mr. Corley was a foreman for Consol Energy and was a member of the Chamberlayne Height United Methodist Church in Richmond, Va. Friends will be received Wednesday, March 15, 2017 from 5-8 p.m. A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home with Rev. Steven Meadows officiating. Burial will follow in the Broad Run Cemetery at Jane Lew. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.polingstclair.com. Poling-St. Clair Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Monday, March 27, 2017LONGMEADOW -- Several public works vehicles from around the region are expected to take part in the funeral procession today for Longmeadow DPW foreman Warren Cowles, who was killed last week when his snowplow was struck by a train.Warren CowlesSubmitted photo The funeral for Cowles will be 11 a.m. at Curran Funeral Home, 109 Main St., West Springfield. Burial is to follow at St. Mary's Cemetery in Westfield.The New England chapter of the American Public Works Association said that chapter members and DPW crews from severla communities will take part in the motorcade to honor Cowles. Participants will be dressed in florescent yellow safety gear."We will line the streets with public works employees dressed in their yellow safety jackets and provide a fleet of trucks to follow the funeral procession as a tribute to Warren and his family," said Needham Public Works Director, Richard Merson, past president of the New England chapter of the American Public Works Association (NEAPWA). Cowles, 59, of Longmeadow was killed March 14 in a collision between his snowplow and an Amtrak train on Birnie Road. Cowles was plowing the road at...
Monday, March 13, 2017Stafford worked as horse groomer and scrap iron dealer before returning to the railroad. There, his hard work and reputation led to jobs of increasing responsibility, culminating as a supervising foreman before his retirement in 1982.Along the way, Stafford married Beatrice Bragg. Their first home, four acres of land and a leaky house, was purchased for $175. Beatrice brought in additional income as a domestic worker, but continued her education while raising their children. She eventually earned a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education and worked as a teacher for more than 30 years.Stafford coped with the restrictions of being a black man in the Deep South over much of his lifetime. Even fun family outings were dampened by the ever-present Jim Crow, forcing him to use the back door of the local Dairy Queen because the staff would not serve a black man in the front of the store.“He’d be so dejected when he came back,” Harold recalled. “He was embarrassed but he’d always say there’s a brighter day ahead.”Stafford, however, didn’t become involved in the civil rights movement of the 60s.“I’m not saying he never felt bitter or that he wasn’t happy about the condition under which he and other blacks lived at the time,” Harold said. “His concern was to make the best of a bad situation.”Stafford always encouraged his children to better themselves through education.“It was always very strongly enforced in the family that education was the key to equal opportunity in America,” Harold said. “And we always were told you can’t expect to be given anything in this world, you have to go out and make it happen.”Harold said it was important that he write the book about his father.“First off, I wanted the Stafford family to know about him,” he said. “I learned a lot of things that they didn’t know, I felt an obligation to tell the story.“Also, I see my dad as an unsung, unseen hero,” Harold added. “I wanted to chronicle his life so that our family, our friends and our community and maybe the world would know what a great man he was, and what you could accomplish, even with a sixth-grade education.”Harold’s book is subtitled “An American Dream Fulfilled.”“My dad not only had this dream about his own life and what he wanted to accomplish, but he did it against some very big odds,” Harold said. “He wanted to make sure his family had a quality of life that was better than his had been.”And although some may think the nickname “Water boy” to be derogatory, his father never considered that, Harold said.“He wore that name proudly,” he said. “He was proud he had that job with the railroad, it was a way out of poverty.”Harold highly recommends others taking the time to sit down with their elders and learn from them.“After having written this book about my dad and his experiences, when I see older people I have such a renewed appreciation for them,” he said. “You never can tell what they’ve done, or what their lives have been like.”A signed copy of Harold’s book, “Ellis ‘Water Boy’ Stafford: An American Dream Fulfilled,” is available directly from him by calling 697-0622; unsigned copies may be ordered through amazon.com. The cost is $12.95.
