Joyce Kenney

Notes:

A service will be conducted at 11 a.m. today in the Chamberlin Funeral Home for Mrs. Joyce K. Mitchell of 42 Clara Barton St. who died Monday (May 3, 1971) in Dansville Memorial Hospital. She was 74.

Born in Byersville, she had resided in the Dansville area most of her life. She was the widow of Marshall Mitchell.

She was a member of the Dansville Presbyterian Church, the Sunshine Circle of the King's Daughters, and a member of the Home Bureau where she was a leader and taught classes for many years. She worked as a practical nurse.

Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. James (Lillian) Reilly, Mrs. John (Marguerite) Smith, Mrs. Robert (Betty) Minemier, all of Dansville, and Miss June Mitchell of Syracuse and Mrs. Thomas (Jeannette) Adamson of Groveland; a son, William of Dansville; two brothers, Clyde and Leith Kenney, both of Dansville; four sisters, Mrs. Marguerite Pauline, Mrs. Lucille Lamont and Mrs. Jean Thompson, all of Dansville, and Mrs. Isabel Grant of Rochester; 17 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery, West Sparta.

Friends may contribute to the Dansville Memorial Hospital Building Fund or the Dansville Presbyterian Church. (GCE, May 6, 1971, p5)

Joyce married Marshall Mitchell about 1918. Marshall (son of William L. Mitchell) was born about 1893. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Adamson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lillian Mitchell Reilly, age 78, of Elm St., Dansville died Monday,
June 15, 1998 at Noyes Memorial in Dansville. She was born in Ossian
on May 1, 1920 the daughter of the late Marshall and Joyce Kenney
Mitchell.
Lillian was married in Dansville on September 23, 1946 to James W.
Reilly who died on September 15, 1990.
Prior to her retirement, Mrs. Reilly had been employed at the W. K.
Dodds pharmacy in Dansville. She was a fifty year member of the
Dansville Presbyterian Church where she was a member and past
president of the Sunshine Circle. Lillian was a member of Todays
Widow; a charter member and longtime volunteer for the Noyes Memorial
Hospital Auxiliary.
She is survived by one daughter Sherrie Reilly of Dansville; one son
Gary (Norton) Reilly of Fairport; four sisters, June Mitchell of
Fayetteville, Jeanette Adamson of Groveland, Margurite (John) Smith of
Dansville, and Betty Ann (Robert) Minemier of Dansville; a
sister-in-law, Barbara Culbertson Mitchell. Also surviving are several
nieces, nephews, cousins and special friends.
Friends may call Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 at the Chamberlin Funeral
Home Inc., 73 Main Street, Dansville, where a funeral service will be
held Friday at 10 a.m., with the Reverend Daniel Heintz officiating.
Burial will take place in Oaklawn Cemetery, West Sparta. In lieu of
flowers, donations may be made to Noyes Memorial Hospital Lifeline,
Dansville, NY 14437; the Wayne Association Of Retarded Children (ARC),
150 VanBuren Street, Newark, NY 14513; or to ones own favorite
charity. (GCE, Jun. 18, 1998, p4)

Notes:

William B. Mitchell of Dansville RD 2 died unexpectedly Wednesday (Sept. 12, 1973).

A native and life-long resident of Dansville, Mr. Mitchell owned and operated a farm here for many years. He also had a contract with the Village of Dansville in recent years to operate the sanitary landfill.

Mr. Mitchell served as the Livingston County Refuse Agency which is charged with making plans for a central county landfill and was an inspector in flood control projects for the county Soil Conservation Service.

Surviving are his wife, Barbara Culbertson Mitchell; two daughters, Beth and Bonnie, and two sons, Bradley and Brett, all at home; five sisters, Miss June Mitchell of Fayetteville, Mrs. James Reilly, Mrs. John A. Smith and Mrs. Robert Minemier, all of Dansville, and Mrs. Thomas Adamson of Groveland.

Masonic rites were conducted Friday in the Chamberlin Funeral Home where a funeral service was held Saturday. Burial was in Oaklawn Cemetery, West Sparta.

Those wishing may contribute in his memory to the Heart Fund or the Dansville Ambulance Fund. (GCE, September 20, 1973, p8)

Family/Spouse: Barbara Culbertson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]