Father:  Joe Garfield     Mother:  Florence Ora Spinks
			Name:  Floyd Jay Garfield Born:    November 3, 1917 Place:  French Creek, NY Died: Place: Buried: Place: Married:  May 17, 1940  --  Conneaut, OH Divorced Name:  Harriett Eloise Swanson Born:    July 1, 1919 Place:   Alta, IA Died: Place: Buried: Place:
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	Floyd  Jay  Garfield,  was  the  3rd. child and 1st. living son of Joe Garfield  and  Florance  Ora  Spinks,  born   November  3,  1917  near Blockville,  in  the  Town  of Harmony, County of Chautauqua, State of New  York.  Floyd  remembered  with  his older sister Helen, moving to the  family  farm  midway  between  Durkeyville  and Cutting, New York on  the  south  side  of State Road 474 when he was about 4 years old. There  he  had  a  normal childhood growing up on the farm and helping with  the  daily  chores  of  farm life. He started school in the 2nd. grade  (bypassing  the  first  grade)  at the one room school house at the  corner  of SR 474 and The New Buffalo Road. (The same school that all  his  brothers  and  sisters attended). This was a one room school house  with  8  grades  and  one  teacher. During his 7 years there he was taught by Donna & Mabel Wright and Frances Buxton. After  finishing  the  8th.  grade  he  started high school at Clymer, New York., in a small wooden building setting where the current Clymer Central School now stands, and riding on a school bus driven by Lehman Green,  who  later  become  his brother-in-law after he married Helen, Floyd's older sister. Floyd  graduated  from  high  school  on  June 25, 1934 and moved away from  home that fall. He first went to work for a cousin, Harry Moody, on his farm near Wattsburg, PA through the fall and winter of 1934/35. He  then  went  to  work  for  another cousin, Claude Garfield, on his fruit  farm  in Harborcreek, PA from the spring of 1935 until the fall of  1936.  It  was  then (Oct 1936) he took employment with Lake Shore Materials  Copt.  in Harborcreek, PA and worked for them for 20 years. Lake  Shore  transferred  him  from  Harborcreek lumber yard to first, Conneaut,  OH  and  later  (Feb  1941)  to Lancaster, NY. It was while working  in  Conneaut  that  he  met, Harriett Swanson, who became his wife  on May 17, 1940. Soon after being transferred to Lancaster their first  child,  Lois  Mae,  was born on May 12, 1941. Phyllis Ann their second child was born on Jan 12, 1943. Floyd  was  inducted  into  the  Army  through Cleveland, OH on May 2, 1945  and  served in the infantry for 1 year and 5 months as a company clerk  after  boot camp. He spent one year in Italy and was discharged in Sept. of 1946 as a Sergeant. He came back to Lancaster and returned to  his  prior  job  as  manager  of Lake Shore Materials Corp. On Feb 25, 1948 their third and last child, a son, John Allen, was born. Floyd  left  Lake  Shore  Materials  Corp.  in April of 1956 and along with  George and John Marsden started a new retail lumber and millwork company  in  Alden,  NY.  He  sold  his interest in the company in Oct of  1960  and  went  to  work  for J. C. Weil Lumber Co. in Lancaster, NY  until  1966.  During the summer of 1966 he worked with his younger brother (Richard) and his wife at King Photographers, Inc. in Buffalo, NY,  then in Nov of 1966 started working for Joseph & Elaine Giallanza at  the  Giallanza  Corp. It was during this time that he and Harriett were  divorced,  and  he  never  remarried. In the fall of 2001, after 35  years, at the age of 84, Floyd, is still working for the Giallanza Corp.