This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6230 Message Board Post: CLAYTON E. HOTCHKISS Military funeral rites for Maj. Clayton E. HOTCHKISS, 41, who was killed in an aircraft collision over Orlando, Fla., Monday, May 8, 1972, will be held Sunday, May 14, 1972, in the Embser Funeral Chapel, Belmont, at 2 p.m. The Rev. Ralph HOWE of Castile will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery, Belmont. Maj. HOTCHKISS was born in Castile, January 13, 1931, a son of Edward and Emma HARWOOD HOTCHKISS. He married the former Beverly BLIVEN of Belmont, who survives. He resided in Belmont as a child and later moved to Fillmore where he was a graduate of the Fillmore Central High School. He entered the Air Force in 1954 following graduation from Cornell University. Surviving, in addition to his widow, are a son, Jeffrey HOTCHKISS and two daughters, Patty Sue HOTCHKISS and Michele HOTCHKISS, all at home; two brothers, Cecil HOTCHKISS of Nunda and Lloyd HOTCHKISS of Belmont; three sisters, Mrs. Marguerite HOWE of Castile, Mrs. Marie CLARK of South Boston, Va. and Mrs. Ruth EVANS of Nunda. Friends are being received at the Embser Funeral Chapel today from 7 to 9 p.m. [Transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from obituary collection of Lenora Mills, Wiscoy, NY]