MySource:Scotishmariner/Obit: Sarah A. Hatch Yerden Winfield

Wife of Ernest Winfield Dies Mannsville, Oct 24 - Mrs. Sara A. Hatch Yerden Winfield, 78, wife of Ernest R. Winfield, died Sunday afternoon at 3:15 in the House of the Good Samaritan, Watertown, where she was taken by ambulance Thursday morning.

    She had been in failing health for six months.  Death was attributed to a heart attack.
    The funeral will be Wednesday morning at 11 in the Piddock funeral home, Adams, with Rev. Bernard A. Draper, pastor of the Sandy Creek Wesleyan Methodist church, officiating.  Burial will be in Maplewood cemetery, Mannsville. Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
    Mrs. Winfield is survived by her husband, five sons, George and Edward, Adams; Melvin and Charles, Watertown; Arthur, Henderson; a daughter, Mrs. William (Dorothy) Nemier, Adams Center; eleven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; two brothers, James William Hatch, Mannsville; Herbert Harry Hatch, Watertown; two sisters, Mrs. Fred (Flossie) Webb, Orwell, and Mrs. James (Alice) Price, Syracuse.
    Mrs. Winfield was born at Parish, Dec 11, 1881, a daughter of George and Armida Secor Hatch.  She was married to Herman A. Yerden, Adams, in 1905.  Mr. Yerden was a carpenter and they lived in the southern Jefferson county area most of their married life.  Mr. Yerden died in August 1922.
    She married Ernest R. Winfield, son of Charles and Mabel Bond Winfield, Deposit, July 29, 1930, in the old Mannsville Congregational church parsonage with Rev. John Sweet, then pastor.  They celebrated their 29th wedding anniversay in 1959.
    Mr. Winfield was a veteran of World War I and had served overseas.  He is a truck driver and had worked at the Sampson naval base near Geneva.  During that time the couple lived at Waterloo.  He later worked at Sackets Harbor for seven years.  They had lived in the Mannsville area most of the time since their marriage.  Mr. and Mrs. Winfield moved to Mannsville in 1954.
    In 1958 Mr. Winfield passed an examination from the Southeastern Bible college, Birmingham, Ala., since then had held several services in Watertown, Syracuse, Batavia, and in the Willard state hospital.
    Mrs. Winfield attended the Wesleyan Methodist church, Sandy Creek, and was a member of the Missionary society of the church.