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Oct 1974 Obituary Lucy T MillspaughEntry/Object ID
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Lucy Tesch MillspaughScope and Content
LUCY T. MILLSPAUGH Mrs. Lucy Tesch Millspaugh, 82, of 175 Grandview Avenue, died Thursday at Columbia Memorial Hospital, Hudson, where she had been a patient since Sept. 17. Oct 3, 1974 [Handwritten note] Born at Jersey City, N.J., on July 27, 1892, Mrs. Millspaugh was the daughter of the late Albert John and Eliese Lucy Schroeder Tesch and the widow of Harry Millspaugh who died here July 2, 1967. Funeral service on Monday at 2 p.m. at the new Millspaugh Funeral Home, 139 Jefferson Heights, will be conducted by Rev. John Dykstra, pastor of the First Reformed Church of which Mrs. Millspaugh was a long time active member. Interment will follow in the family plot in Jefferson Rural Cemetery. Mr. James Keeler of the Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home of Hudson has charge of arrangements. Mrs. Millspaugh, a New York State licensed funeral director since 1932, devoted many years of service to the community in assisting her husband who founded the Millspaugh Funeral Home in Catskill in 1926. Mrs. Millspaugh was active in her church in the Women's Guild, and Missionary Society. She was a life member of Hose One Auxiliary; a 50 year member of Catskill Chapter O.E.S. 293; a member of American Legion Post 110 Auxiliary; World War 1 Veterans Barracks 920 Auxiliary; and Catskill Senior Fellowship. Surviving are her son Henry John Millspaugh, a daughter, Mrs. Ralph E. (Eliese Helen) Van Hoesen; five grandchildren, Harry John Millspaugh, Marsha Clarice Millspaugh, Ralph E. Van Hoesen, Jr., Eliese Millspaugh Van Hoesen and Mary Frances Millspaugh, all of Catskill. Also surviving are her brother, Henry Tesch of Point Pleasant, N.J.; a sister, Mrs. Clara Dunn of Metuchen, N.J. and several nieces and nephews. Friends are invited to call at the funeral home on Saturday after 7 p.m. and on Sunday 2-4 and after 7 p.m. American Legion service will be 7:30 p.m. and Eastern Star service at 8 p.m. on Sunday.