DOUGLASS BARTOW, 79.(CAPITAL REGION)

Douglass L. Bartow, 79, of Sunset Lane, Speigletown, died Wednesday in the Albany Medical Center Hospital after a brief illness.

He was born in Miller Place, Suffolk County, and lived in Troy since 1937.

Mr. Bartow retired in 1979 as a research engineer at the Manning Division of the Hammermill Paper Co. in Troy. He worked for the company for 42 years. He had also been a general mill superintendent at the Mt. Ida Mill of the Manning Paper Co. in Troy.

He was a member of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, former member of the Paper Industry Management Association and a local representative of the High School Career Guidance …