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Remembering Our Past Members
5-5-5 Explanation
Long before telephones and radios, fire departments used the telegraph to communicate. When the handle was pulled on the once-familiar red fire alarm boxes found on nearly every street corner of America, a special code was transmitted to every fire station.
When a firefighter died in the line of duty, the fire alarm office would tap out a special signal. That signal was five measured dashes, then a pause, then five measured dashes, another pause…then five more dashes.
This became universally known as the Tolling of the Bell and was broadcast over all telegraph fire alarm circuits.
This signal was a sign of honor and respect for all firefighters who had made the ultimate sacrifice and has become a time-honored tradition.
Members who have answered there final call to
service:
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The Naming of Deceased Fire Fighters (Buried at Brookside Fire Monument - Town of Watertown and City of Watertown Combined until 1951)
Elkanah Cadman 1831 – September 5, 1862
Peter Hobson 1811 – July 1, 1865
Foster Fearon - 1905
David Martell 1838 - 1924
Fred A. Woodward 1865 - 1924
Michael Callahan 1843 – March 14, 1874
John B. Gibbins 1852 – 1941
Irving D. Clark 1853 (1857) – May 31, 1943
Town of Watertown Fire Department (Dates Uncertain)
Gilbert Blackmer
Howard Cronk
Joseph DeGuff
Ovila Dufrense
Norman Giddings
Allan Hewitt
J. Dudley Jones
Howard Lister
Clarence Lowe
Kenneth Luffman
Fred Matthews
Clifford Smith
Herbert Winter
Town of Watertown
Edward Marcellus July 22, 1894 - February 5, 1970
Elmer Pearson March 29, 1909 - September 28, 1971
Ross Wilson September 3, 1909 - April 2, 1974
Ned Madill September 15, 1915 - January 10, 1976
Leo Williams December 29, 1910 - April 13, 1976
Hubert Hart October 6, 1902 - December 4, 1979
Henry Cornell May 30, 1908 - April 4, 1980
Henry Rule March 15, 1923 - June 24, 1980
Paul Jones February 14, 1925 - February 8, 1981
Richard Sutton November 20, 1930 - September 27, 1981
Thomas Oberton November 5, 1909 - April 25, 1983
Joseph Pearson July 28, 1905 - September 22, 1984
Neal Edgar October 17, 1938 - June 22, 1987
Howard Jeffers April 25, 1911 - January 25, 1988
Carl Wilson October 12, 1924 - January 5, 1989
Donald Palmer May 25, 1925 - October 27, 1989
Bernard Clement August 25, 1933 - February 10, 1990
Maxwell Bauder June 18, 1915 - July 8, 1990
Walter Fish May 1, 1927 - April 14, 1992
Edward Mac December 18, 1918 - May 8, 1992
Dalton Gilmore July 11, 1936 - September 7, 1992
John Stone - July 1, 1993
Gordon Kenfield September 16, 1919 - September 8, 1994
Kenneth Heath August 17, 1936 - July 10, 1995
Ray Churchill March 22, 1919 - November 30, 1995
George Lyng April 10, 1919 - January 3, 1996
Edison Conway November 5, 1905 - May 28, 1996
Herbert Smith July 17, 1905 - October 3, 1997
Kenneth Thomas April 9, 1928 - January 29, 1999
Vincent Denicola June 12, 1944 - October 8, 2000
Donald Clement August 3, 1935 - March 14, 2001
Ralph Oberton November 6, 1935 - June 3, 2001
Earl Crandall May 3, 1917 - October 25, 2001
Robert Hughes December 18, 1940 - February 12, 2002
Robert David June 5, 1930 - May 2, 2004
Donald Tremont June 20, 1922 - May 3, 2004
Harold Mustizer - Dec. 6, 2004
Francis J. Myers January 20, 1928 - March 14, 2005
David Reed May 6, 1936 - April 5, 2005
Robert “Donald” Spink - 2005
James “Red” E. Howland January 7, 1922 - July 13, 2005
Roland A. Hoppe May 7, 1917 - December 10, 2005
Franklin H. Scales December 1, 1918 - February 13, 2006
Clyde A. Kirk March 7, 1918 - May 12, 2006
Wesley Alcombrack August 15, 1922 - September 6, 2006
Neil O. Fralick
Stanley Aloan November 6, 1917- July 13, 2007
Richard W. Hodge Kenneth T. Sutton September 23, 1929 - October 13, 2007
Laura G. Howland June 23, 1949 - November 16, 2008
Leonard J. Pitcher January 4, 1926 - January 30, 2009
Sanford J. “Sandy” Hartman
Daniel Sullivan January 13, 1917 - October 18, 2009
Edward L. Clark November 24, 1915 - November 15, 2009
Randy J. Clement August 21, 1959 - December 25, 2009
Clarence T. Waters August 19, 1922 – April 1, 2010
George H. Carroll April 10, 1952 - April 27, 2010
Fire Auxiliary Members Mildred Blackmer
Mildred Card
Pat Clement
Helen Crandell
Helen Fralick
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