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- Watertown Daily Times (NY)
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Douglas C. Hartson Sr., 60, Winthrop, died Tuesday evening at his home, where he was under the care of his family.
Mr. Hartson retired from Alcoa in September 2001 after 36 years' service and was a member of United Steelworkers Union Local 420, both in Massena.
He was a fan of New York Yankees baseball, a Little League coach for many years and an umpire. He played baseball for the Dickinson team and Old Timers softball with Lil's, Brasher Falls, and the Club.
He was a member of Malone Country Club and Meadowbrook Country Club, where he was president of the Thursday Night Mixed Couples Golf League. He also enjoyed bowling and was president of Moira Bowling Association and secretary-treasurer of the Monday Night League for more than 20 years at Big D's House, Moira.
He enjoyed watching and supporting Potsdam State University College basketball as a booster.
Born May 17, 1943, in Potsdam, son of Clayton M. and Lillie May Moulton Hartson, he attended Munson Country School, Stockholm, and graduated in 1961 from St. Lawrence Central School, Brasher Falls, where he participated in baseball, basketball and hockey. He then attended Canton Agricultural and Technical Institute.
He married Linda K. Arquiett on Sept. 14, 1963, at St. Patrick's Church, Brasher Falls, with Rev. Herbert J. Hannon officiating.
He worked at a dairy farm in Dansville and then moved back to the north country to work on road construction. He then went to work at General Motors Central Foundry, Massena, before becoming a millwright at Alcoa.
Surviving besides his wife are two sons and their wives, Douglas C. Jr. and Kathleen, Schuyler Falls, and Kevin and Maryette, Shortsville; two daughters and their husbands, Paula and Chris Gardner, Fairfax, Va., and Tracie and Mark Fountain, Plattsburgh; two brothers and their wives, C. Mark and Wendy, Winston-Salem, N.C., and Duane G. and Tina, Peru; two sisters and their husbands, Donna and Ronald Sanborn, Norwood, and Cynthia and Bernard Richards, Brushton, six grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Twin grandsons died before him.
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