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/5969 Message Board Post: John O. Torpey 1939 John O. TORPEY, 65, prominent retired Nunda business man, for many years proprietor of TORPEY's Men's Shop, trustee of Holy Angels Church, member of Hope Hose Co. No. 4, and former supervisor and trustee of Belfast, was found dead in bed at his home in Nunda Tuesday morning, Feb. 7, 1939. He was, for 27 years employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and was with the J. W. STOCKWELL Co. , Fillmore, for five years before going to Nunda in September, 1919. Mr. TORPEY, who was born at Fillmore Sept. 11, 1873, was taken ill Sunday night, had felt somewhat better when he retired Monday, and was resting comfortably at 5:30 Tuesday morning when Mrs. TORPEY went in to see him, but when she went in shortly after 7 o'clock to speak to him she found him dead. John TORPEY attended the Fillmore school and Westbrook Commercial Academy in Olean and at the age of 18 went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad, serving in the capacity of station agent and telegraph operator at Houghton, Rossburg, Belfast, Fillmore, Claremont, Pa., and other places along the Olean and Rochester branch of the railroad. He was station agent at Belfast for ten years, following which he left the employ of the company and moved to Fillmore, where he became associated with the J. W. Stockwell Company. On Feb. 4, 1904 Mr. Torpey married Pearl GILLETTE of Fillmore, who survives. Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Kenneth CLARK of Wellsville and Miss Helen TORPEY, a member of Dansville school faculty; also two sisters, Mrs. J. W. STOCKWELL of Fillmore, and Mrs. Clara T. CLAIR of Rexville; also one niece, Mrs. T. H. GREENFIELD of Hornell. The funeral will be at Holy Angels Church, Nunda, Friday, Feb. 10, at 9:30 a.m. Rev. W. E. HAYES, pastor of the church officiating and burial will be made in the Fillmore Cemetery. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]