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- DOROTHY M. COBB, 70, ELLISBURG FARMER, DIES
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - July 24, 1990Browse Issues
Dorothy M. Cobb, 70, Machold Road, wife of Hubert L. Cobb, died at 11:50 a.m. Monday at her home after a long illness.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Carpenter-Stoodley Funeral Home, Belleville, with the Rev. Willis E. Danks, pastor of the Woodville Congregational Church, officiating. Burial will be in Ellisburg Cemetery.
Calling hours will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Contributions may be made to Hospice of Jefferson County Inc., P.O. Box 677, Watertown, 13601.
Besides her husband, she is survived by three sons, Bruce, Mannsville, James, Sandy Creek, and Wayne, Anchorage, Alaska; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren, and a sister, Betty Marra, Watertown.
A twin sister, Doris S. Lowe, died before her.
Born May 4, 1920, in the Town of Watertown, daughter of Philo and Helen Miner Snyder, she attended school in Adams Center.
She married Mr. Cobb Nov. 21, 1940, in North Pharsalia. The couple moved to Ellisburg, where they operated a dairy farm on the Farm to Market Road south of Ellisburg.
In 1955, they moved to the Loren Johnson farm on the Machold Road. They purchased the farm in 1961 and had lived there since.
Mrs. Cobb was a member and former chaplain of the Jefferson County Firemen's Auxiliary and a charter member of the Ellisburg Firemen's Auxiliary. She was also a member of the Ellisburg United Methodist Church, the Ellisburg Willing Workers and the United Methodist Women's Organization.
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