Margaret E. Nulty

History Teacher

 

(January 21, 1909--September 13, 1999)

OGDENSBURG--Arrangments for Margaret E. Nulty, 90, United Helpers Nursing Home, are private and are with Green Funeral Home, Gouverneur. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Norwood.

Miss Nulty died Monday morning at Hepburn Medical Center.

She had been a longtime history teacher in the Gouverneur Central School District.

Born Jan. 21, 1909, on Staten Island, daughter of George and Josepha Moss Nulty, she graduated from Curtis High School, Staten Island, and from St. Lawrence University, Canton.. She earned a master's degree in history at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.

She was a Navy veteran of World War II.

Miss Nulty owned and spent summers on Murray Isle in the St. Lawrence River. She enjoyed reading and the St. Lawrence River. She was the author of history books about the north country and Murray Isle.

She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Gouverneur Historical Association and a communicant of St. James Catholic Church.

Surviving are a nephew, Thomas Wiltsey, Anchorage, Alaska, and a niece, Kathleen Wiltsey, West Lake Village, Calif.

 

(Taken from the Wednesday, September 15, 1999 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page 31)

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