Obituary for Leslie Herbert Bemont
The Ithaca Journal, Dec 13 1940, P. 8, Col. 2.
"Leslie Herbert Bemont, 41, extension instructor in the Department of Poultry Husbandry at Cornell, died unexpectedly at his home in Forest Home Thursday night Dec. 12, 1940.
Born at Rocky Hill, Conn., Dec 28, 1898, Mr. Bemont attended the Meriden, Conn. High School, where he was a member of the class of 1917. He did not complete his high school work as he joined the U. S. Army and served in the World War.
He received a B. S. degree in 1923 from Connecticut State College, Storrs, Conn., now the University of Connecticut. He was president of the senior class there. He was in poultry extension work there from 1923 to 1924, when he went to MacDonald College, the agricultural college of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where he was an instructor poultry husbandry from 1924 to 1925.
Mr. Bemont entered the Graduate School at Cornell in Sept., 1936, and was appointed an instructor in poultry husbandry Oct. 1, 1936. He had fulfilled the requirements for a M. S. degree with the exception of completing his thesis. For the past several years he had been poultry specialist in 4-H Club work. He was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and the Poultry Science Association.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Isabel L. Bemont, he is survived by two sons, Leslie Edward and Donald Rolland, all of Forest Home, and three sisters, Mrs. Earl W. Crampton of Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Mrs. Hazel Anderson of New Britain, Conn., and Mrs. Harriet Phreaner of Byewood, Philadelphia, PA.
The body will be taken to Meriden, Conn., this evening for funeral services and interment Sunday."