May 11, 2008  

LOWVILLE, N.Y. —  Clarence A. Manzer, 83, formerly of Valley View Courts, died Saturday afternoon, May 10, at Lewis County Residential Healthcare Facility. 

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 14, at the Adirondack Funeral Home, Croghan, with the Rev. Bruce Chapman, retired Methodist minister, officiating. Burial with military honors will follow in Brantingham Cemetery. Calling hours will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, at the funeral home. Lewis County Memorial Post 6912 Veteran’s of Foreign Wars will hold a service at 7 p.m. 

Instead of flowers, donations may be made to Lewis County Memorial Post 6912 Veteran’s of Foreign Wars. 

Born Jan. 12, 1925, in Gloversville, son of Archibald and Lula Manzer, he attended rural area schools.  He served in the Army Air Corps. during World War II. He was employed as a truck driver for Climax Manufcturing in Castorland for many years. 

He married Dorothy Hall Herman on Aug. 29, 1987, in Scriba. She died Jan. 22, 2005. A previous marriage ended in divorce. 

He was of the Methodist faith. He was a member of Lewis County Memorial Post 6912 Veteran’s of Foreign Wars, Lowville. 

Surviving are three sons, Doug, Farmington; Darrel, Rochester; and Scott, Camden; three daughters, Bonnie Dening, Marilyn VanZandt, and Marcia Kenealy, all of Lowville, and Gail Price, Charleston, S.C.; four stepchildren, Lorry Sutton, Rochester; Bonnie Knapp, Augusta, Ga.; Michael Herman, Woodbridge, Va., and Patrick Herman, Lakeland, Fla.; a brother, Lowell Manzer, Lowville; two sisters, Doris Ecker, Johnstown, and Betty Gorzcyca, Lowville; 24 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. 

He was predeceased by a daughter, Charlene in 1991, a son, Joel, in 1975; a granddaughter, Tiffany VanZandt, in 1989; a daughter-in-law, Lorna Manzer, in 2005, and two sisters, Noreen Crane and Carol Manzer.

Information provided by Adirondack Funeral Home, Croghan, and Newzjunky, Watertown, N.Y.