(May 17, 1925-March 26, 2005)

POTSDAM--Elizabeth May Russell, 79, Potsdam, died Saturday at United Helpers Canton Nursing Home, where she had been a patient since March 11.

Mrs. Russell worked as a cook and an assistant supervisor in the Food Service Department at Potsdam State University College for 18 years, retiring in 1976.

She was a member of the Debra Drive Senior Citizens Club and Crary Mills Community Center.

Born May 17, 1925, in Ealing, Middlesex, England, daughter of Maurice Scott and Robina Outterson Harris, she attended schools in England.

She married Howard J. Russell on Sept. 24, 1944, at St. Joseph’s Church, Bishop’s Stortford, England. They met while Mr. Russell was serving in England with the Army during World War II. He was discharged from the service in 1945 and Mrs. Russell arrived in the United States on March 1, 1946, to join her husband in Unionville, where they resided. Mr. Russell died March 22, 1977.

Surviving are two daughters and their husbands, Patricia and Joseph Matthews, Canton, and Anne and Gerald LaBaff, Indiana, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

A brother, James Angus Harris, and a sister, Margery Simmons, died before her.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Garner Funeral Home with the Rev. D. Richard Will officiating. Burial will be later in the spring in Calvary Cemetery, Norwood.

Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Donations may be made to Hospice & Palliative Care of St. Lawrence Valley, P.O. Box 469, Potsdam, N.Y. 13676.

(From the Monday, March 28, 2005 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page D5).