(Aug. 3, 1936--July 15, 1999)

MADRID--There will be no funeral or calling hours for Nancy E. Stone, 62, Route 310. Burial will be at the family's convenience.

 Mrs. Stone died Thursday evening at her home. She had been in ill health for about nine years.

 Arrangements are with Buck Funeral Home, Norwood.

 Mrs. Stone was a homemaker and in earlier years was a bookkeeper for Norwood Hardware.

 She also was a registered state and federal wildlife rehabilitator and wrote a newspaper column, "Horse Feathers," for many years.

 Born Aug. 3, 1936, in Potsdam, she was a daugher of Charles W. and Edith Clark Purves.

 Surviving besides her husband, James, are three stepsons, George and Henry, both of Madrid, and Tommy, Brasher Falls; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Charles (Kathy) Horton, Norfolk; a brother, Charles Purves, Norwood; a sister, Mrs. Bruce (Susan) Bancroft, Merrill, and 11 stepgrandchildren.

 A stepson, Jimmy, died before her.

(Taken from the Saturday, July 17, 1999 edition of the Watertown Daily Times).