Doris Dailey

Retired Teacher

 

(May 8, 1913-February 1, 2001)

 

NORWOOD--The funeral for Doris "Dode" Dailey, 87, of 46 N. Main St., will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Andrew's Church with the Rev. Paul Worczak, pastor, officiating. Spring burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

Mrs. Dailey died Thursday aftrernoon in Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Potsdam, where she had been a patient since Jan. 26.

Calling hours will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Buck Funeral Home, where the rosary will be recited at 3 p.m. Sunday.

Mrs. Dailey was a teacher at Gouverneur Elementary School from 1933 to 1939 and then at Norwood Elementary School from 1955 until her retirement in 1977.

Born May 8, 1913, in Norwood, daughter of Cornelius and Mary Barry McCormick, she was a graduate of Norwood High School and a 1933 graduate of Potsdam Normal School.

She married George F. Dailey on Aug. 1, 1939, in St. Andrew's Catholic Church with the Rev. James E. Joy officiating. He died Aug. 3, 1981.

Mrs. Dailey was a communicant of St. Andrew's Church and a member of the Norwood Historical Society, the New York State Retired Teachers Association and the National Education Association. She was also a former trustee and secretary for the Norwood Library Association.

Surviving are two sons and their wives, John and Elizabeth, Central Square, and James and Kathy, Dallas, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Roscoe (Elizabeth) Bowhall, Norwood, and Eileen St. Mary, Massena, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

 

Donations may be made to Potsdam Rescue Squad or the St. Andrew's Church Meditation Garden Fund.

 

(Taken from the Saturday, February 3, 2001 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page 31).

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