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- The Angelica Advocate
MRS.ELIZABETH O. MORTON, Well Known Teacher Passes Away
April 24, 1947
Mrs. Elizabeth Ostrander Morton, well known Allegany County teacher for many years died yesterday morning in Jones Memorial Hospital, Wellsville, following a brief illness.
Mrs. Morton taught in the high schools of Almond, Belmont, Owego, Wellsville and Bradford, Pa.
She graduated from Alfred University as president of her class in 1892 and received her Master?s degree from Alfred. Mrs. Morton studied for a year in Germany.
Mrs. Morton was active in community affairs here. She was Superintendent of Education of the Allegany County Fair Association, Angelica School director, president of the Angelica Progress Club, member of the Allegany County Garden Club, Past Regent of the Catherine Schuyler chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Eighth District Director of the New York State Federation of women?s Clubs. She was also a member of the Angelica Methodist Church.
Deceased was born in Ionia, Michigan, May 2, 1869, a daughter of William and Jeanette Allen Ostrander. She was married to Frank Morton in 1929. Mr. Morton was a dairyman and connected with the State Department of Agriculture and the division of Bovine Tuberculosis Control until his death in 1943.
Surviving Mrs. Morton are a nephew, George W. Ostrander and a great nephew, George K. Ostrander, both of Niagara Falls; and cousins, S. H. Ostrander, Olean; A. J. Halsey, Buffalo, Mrs. Jessie Braedon, Angelica, and Mrs. Myrtle Scott, Cuba.
Funeral services will be held at the late home here Friday at 2 P.M. with the Rev. Carlyle Smith officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Almond.
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