Canastota Bee Journal 
April 22, 1981 
 
Kenneth P. Buyea, 74 
 
  Kenneth Buyea, 74, of 16 Genesee Street, Oneida died Friday in Oneida City Hospital. 
He had been in ill healh for several months. 
  He was born in Oneida, December 8, 1906, the son of Earl and LaMoine Bortle Buyea. 
Mr. Buyea has been a lifelong Oneida resident. 
  He married the former Mabel Durant in Sherrill, December 11, 1926. Before his retirement, 
Buyea had been the owner and operator of Buyea's Inc. of Canastota for many Years. 
  He attended the first Presbyterian Church. 
  Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, L. Gene Buyea, of Athens; a daughter Lelah 
DenHaese ofOneida; two brothers, Irving Buyea of Cazenovia and Walter Buyea of 
Oneida; two great-grandchildren and a great-grandson. 
  Funeral services were held Monday at the Campbell-Dean Funeral Home, Inc., 260 Main 
Street, Oneida with the Rev, Richard P. Weld officiating. Interment was in Glenwood 
Cemetery.