GOUVERNEUR- The funeral for Eugenia M. Huntress, 90, of 26 John St., Gouverneur, town his­torian and retired junior high English teacher, was Saturday at the Deneaha Funeral Home, DeKalb Junction, the Rev. Stanley E. Brown, pastor of the United Church of Richville, officiating, with burial in Union Cemetery, DeKalb Junction. Mrs.. Huntress died on April 4 at Edward John Noble Hospital.

 

Contributions may be made to the Gouverneur Rescue Squad, Gouverneur Edward John Noble Hospital, or the Gouverneur Museum. 

 

Surviving are a son, Arnold, Midland, Michigan; a daughter, Mrs. Clifton (Roberta) Erdman, Ogdensburg; four grandchildren, a great-grandson, and several nieces and nephews.

 

Born in the Town of DeKalb on Feb. 7, 1900, a daughter of J.Lester and Wilnifred Fredenburg Cartney, she was a graduate of Ogdensburg Free Academy and Syracuse University, where she was a member of the Sugma Kappa sorority. She later received a degree in education from Potsdam State Teacher’s College.

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She married Darrell Daytom Huntress July 17, 1927 at Camp Whipporwill in the Adirondacks. The couple had resided in Gouverneur since 1931.

 

Mrs. Huntress was a teacher at Canton ATI and throughout the Gouverneur school system. She served as principal of the Balmat grade school and prior to retiring in 1971, was a junior high English teacher at Gouverneur Central.

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Mr. Huntress was employed by the New York Central Railroad from 1918 to 1957. He also operated a rural bakery route until 1958, when he began working for the Gouverneur Central School system. In 1960, he was made janitor-custodian of Gouverneur High School, a position he held until his death June 24, 1963, at the age of 62.

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