(June 11, 1908--March 1, 1999)

NORWOOD--The funeral for Marcella M. Connelly, 90, 136 Regan Road, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Andrew's Church with the Rev. Paul Worczak, pastor, officiating. Spring burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

Mrs. Connelly died Monday evening in Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Potsdam, where she had been a patient since Feb. 18.

Calling hours are 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Buck Funeral Home.

A homemaker, she was a teacher at a country school on Cold Springs Road, Colton, and was employed by Hollywood Inn, South colton, and Gales Hotel, Childwold.

Born June 11, 1908, in Childwold, a daughter of Addison and Catherine McDonell Marden, she was a graduate of a teachers training class in Canton and married Francis Connelly on Feb. 26, 1926, at Colton Catholic Church.

She was a communicant of St. Andrew's Church and a member of its Altar and Rosary Society and Court Sancta Maria 715 Catholic Daughters of America, where she was past regent.

Surviving besides her husband are three sons, Richard, Baldwinsville, Lawrence, Norfolk, and Robert, Syracuse; six daughters, Mrs. Arthur (Theresa) Perkins, Colton, Mrs. John (Helen) Mahoney, Malone, Mrs. Carl (Barbara) Robbins, Chaumont, Mrs. Thomas (Joan) Warren, Blasdell, Mrs. Kenneth (Patricia) Potocar and Phyllis Hipp, both of Norwood; two sisters, Anita Marden and Loretta Clohosey, both of Colton; 36 grandchildren and 39 great grandchildren.

Two daughters, Mary Catherine Connelly and Sally LaBarge, two brothers, Glenn and Kenneth Marden, and three sisters, Mary M. Perkins, Alice Matthews and Mildred Conn, died before her.

Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society or the Church of the Visitation Parish Center, Norfolk.

(Taken from the Wednesday, March 3, 1999 edition of the Watertown Daily Times).