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Lucille J. Meltzer

Chatham, NY

March 20, 1926 - December 10, 2015

Lucille J. Meltzer Obituary

Lucille Justine Roth Meltzer, age 89, peacefully passed away on Thursday, December 10, 2015.  Born on March 20, 1926, in Flushing, New York, she was the daughter of the late Walter F. and  Jeannette (Canney) Roth. Lucille lived most of her life in the Queensborough Hill section of Flushing. After graduating from Newtown High School at age 16, she worked for Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone for twenty years in the teletype division. She was a member of the Telephone Pioneers. She retired after the birth of her daughters to be a stay-at-home mother and volunteered as a Girl Scout leader and as a tutor at St. Ann’s School in Flushing.  Lucille was a loving wife to her husband, Ernest, who predeceased her in 1993, and was a bookkeeper for his business. Throughout her life, Lucille loved books, libraries and animals—especially dogs. Lucille moved to Cold Spring in 2002 and said it reminded her of “how Flushing used to be”. She  loved to spend her time with her grandchildren and was a member of the Highland Garden Club, the Butterfield Quilting Guild and a parishioner at Our Lady of Loretto Church. Most recently, she was a resident of Camphill Ghent and, finally, Whittier Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Ghent, NY. Lucille is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Maureen Meltzer-McGrath and John McGrath of Cold Spring and Lisa Caproni and her husband Julian of Chatham, NY, and by her grandchildren, Mae Justine McGrath and Graeme Martin McGrath, of Cold Spring, as well as her nieces Patricia (Roth) Buckley of Huntsville, Alabama and Joanne (Roth) Schmidt of Mount Dora, Florida. She was predeceased by her brother Walter T. Roth. A memorial mass will be held in her honor on Friday, December 18th, 11 am, at St. James Roman Catholic Church in Chatham, NY. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her name to the Humane Society. Condolences may be conveyed at frenchblasl.com.

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