December 16, 2011  

LOWVILLE, N.Y.  —  Harvey L. Everson, 91, died Friday, Dec. 16, at the Lewis County Residential Healthcare Facility where he had resided since May 2008. 

A funeral service will be held at a date and time to be announced at the Lowville Baptist Church. There will be no calling hours. Burial will be in Wildwood Cemetery, Lyons Falls.  

Arrangements are with Iseneker Funeral Home, Lowville.

Born May 18, 1920, in Newport, N.Y., a son of the late Harvey and May Rood Everson, he graduated from Boonville High School.  

On May 8, 1943, he married Alice G. Gaffney at St. Martin’s Rectory in Port Leyden, NY.  

He served in the Army before World War II and was honorably discharged due to disability in September 1941. While in the service, he was a member of the Army band, playing clarinet.  

He worked for Lyons Falls Pulp and Paper for 25 years and later worked for Brown Paper Company in Berlin, N.H.  

He also worked for Green Thumb working at Whetstone State park for 17 years. He was noted for all the flowers he would plant every year in the park. 

He was a member of the Lowville Baptist Church, where he was a lay minister. After he retired and ministered to the inmates at Lewis County Jail.  

He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Alice; eight children and their spouses, Catherine “Katie” and Paul Liendecker, Lyons Falls, Patricia and Anthony Buckingham, Rindge, N.H., Nancy and Donald Newton, Lowville, Timothy and Donna Everson, Dennis and Margaret Everson, Mark and Sally Everson, all of Lowville, Connie and Mike Martin, Glenfield, Mary Jo, Lowville; 22 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, three great-great grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.  

A son, Charles W. Everson; a great-grandson, Jonathan Everson Jr.; six brothers, Ernest, Harry, Roy, Warren, Leon and George Everson; and five sisters, Marion Everson, Ruth Flander, Lillian Falmer, Marjory Renodin and his twin sister, Edna M. Mathis, all died before him. 

Condolences may be made online at www.isenekerfuneralhome.com.








Information provided by Iseneker Funeral Home of Lowville and Newzjunky, Watertown, N.Y.