Chelsea – Ruby E. Keyser, 87, died Thursday at Brookside Nursing Home in White River Junction after a long illness.
She was born June 19, 1911, in Lebanon, N.H., daughter of Charles E. and Evelyn (Thompson) Hock.
She attended schools in Hartford and had worked at the J. J. Newbury store and the Junction Restaurant in White River Junction. For more than 40 years she worked as a night telephone operator for New England Telephone and Telegraph Company in White River Junction, retiring in 1968.
On Jan. 24, 1938, she married Clinton M. Hackett Sr., of White River Junction. They lived for 30 years in White River Junction and built two camps in Ogunquit, Maine, and for years spent their vacations and weekends during the summer there. In 1968 they moved to Tunbridge.
Mr. Hackett died in 1975. She married Judge F. Ray Keyser of Chelsea on Jan. 8, 1977.
Mrs. Keyser enjoyed accompanying the judge on his rounds to courthouses across the state until he was 90 years old.
She was a member of the Methodist Church in White River Junction and alter joined the Tunbridge Congregational Church. She was a life member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and had been an active member of the Pioneers Auxiliary Club. She was a member of Lady Washington Chapter 86 OES of Chelsea, Chelsea Area Senior Citizens, Chelsea Woman's Club, past secretary of the former Tunbridge Village Improvement Society, Inc., and a member of the Tunbridge Village Cemetery Association, Inc. and Tunbridge Market Ladies Aid.
She enjoyed gardening and playing bingo.
Survivors in addition to her husband include a daughter, Elaine R. Cilley; a stepson, F. Ray Keyser Jr. of Proctor; two stepdaughters, Vivian Derrick of White River Junction and Natalie Niles of Concord, Mass.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by a brother, Charles E. Hock Jr., who died in 1980; and two stepsons, Clinton E. Hackett Jr. and Perley Hackett.
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Tunbridge Congregational Church by the Rev. David L. Wolfe, pastor. Burial will be held in Tunbridge Village Cemetery, where an Eastern Star service will be conducted by Lady Washington Chapter.
Friends may call Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Boardway & Cilley Funeral, Main Street, Clesea.
Contributions may be made to the Tunbridge Public Library, P.O. Box 9, Tunbridge, 05077.
Rutland Daily Herald, Rutland, Vermont, Saturday, June 5, 1999
Marriages:
Earl Edson Morse -June 21, 1932 (divorced December 20, 1937)
Clinton M. Hackett - January 24, 1938
Frank Ray Keyser - Januuary 8, 1977
She was born June 19, 1911, in Lebanon, N.H., daughter of Charles E. and Evelyn (Thompson) Hock.
She attended schools in Hartford and had worked at the J. J. Newbury store and the Junction Restaurant in White River Junction. For more than 40 years she worked as a night telephone operator for New England Telephone and Telegraph Company in White River Junction, retiring in 1968.
On Jan. 24, 1938, she married Clinton M. Hackett Sr., of White River Junction. They lived for 30 years in White River Junction and built two camps in Ogunquit, Maine, and for years spent their vacations and weekends during the summer there. In 1968 they moved to Tunbridge.
Mr. Hackett died in 1975. She married Judge F. Ray Keyser of Chelsea on Jan. 8, 1977.
Mrs. Keyser enjoyed accompanying the judge on his rounds to courthouses across the state until he was 90 years old.
She was a member of the Methodist Church in White River Junction and alter joined the Tunbridge Congregational Church. She was a life member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and had been an active member of the Pioneers Auxiliary Club. She was a member of Lady Washington Chapter 86 OES of Chelsea, Chelsea Area Senior Citizens, Chelsea Woman's Club, past secretary of the former Tunbridge Village Improvement Society, Inc., and a member of the Tunbridge Village Cemetery Association, Inc. and Tunbridge Market Ladies Aid.
She enjoyed gardening and playing bingo.
Survivors in addition to her husband include a daughter, Elaine R. Cilley; a stepson, F. Ray Keyser Jr. of Proctor; two stepdaughters, Vivian Derrick of White River Junction and Natalie Niles of Concord, Mass.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by a brother, Charles E. Hock Jr., who died in 1980; and two stepsons, Clinton E. Hackett Jr. and Perley Hackett.
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Tunbridge Congregational Church by the Rev. David L. Wolfe, pastor. Burial will be held in Tunbridge Village Cemetery, where an Eastern Star service will be conducted by Lady Washington Chapter.
Friends may call Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Boardway & Cilley Funeral, Main Street, Clesea.
Contributions may be made to the Tunbridge Public Library, P.O. Box 9, Tunbridge, 05077.
Rutland Daily Herald, Rutland, Vermont, Saturday, June 5, 1999
Marriages:
Earl Edson Morse -June 21, 1932 (divorced December 20, 1937)
Clinton M. Hackett - January 24, 1938
Frank Ray Keyser - Januuary 8, 1977
Chelsea – Ruby E. Keyser, 87, died Thursday at Brookside Nursing Home in White River Junction after a long illness.
She was born June 19, 1911, in Lebanon, N.H., daughter of Charles E. and Evelyn (Thompson) Hock.
She attended schools in Hartford and had worked at the J. J. Newbury store and the Junction Restaurant in White River Junction. For more than 40 years she worked as a night telephone operator for New England Telephone and Telegraph Company in White River Junction, retiring in 1968.
On Jan. 24, 1938, she married Clinton M. Hackett Sr., of White River Junction. They lived for 30 years in White River Junction and built two camps in Ogunquit, Maine, and for years spent their vacations and weekends during the summer there. In 1968 they moved to Tunbridge.
Mr. Hackett died in 1975. She married Judge F. Ray Keyser of Chelsea on Jan. 8, 1977.
Mrs. Keyser enjoyed accompanying the judge on his rounds to courthouses across the state until he was 90 years old.
She was a member of the Methodist Church in White River Junction and alter joined the Tunbridge Congregational Church. She was a life member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and had been an active member of the Pioneers Auxiliary Club. She was a member of Lady Washington Chapter 86 OES of Chelsea, Chelsea Area Senior Citizens, Chelsea Woman's Club, past secretary of the former Tunbridge Village Improvement Society, Inc., and a member of the Tunbridge Village Cemetery Association, Inc. and Tunbridge Market Ladies Aid.
She enjoyed gardening and playing bingo.
Survivors in addition to her husband include a daughter, Elaine R. Cilley; a stepson, F. Ray Keyser Jr. of Proctor; two stepdaughters, Vivian Derrick of White River Junction and Natalie Niles of Concord, Mass.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by a brother, Charles E. Hock Jr., who died in 1980; and two stepsons, Clinton E. Hackett Jr. and Perley Hackett.
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Tunbridge Congregational Church by the Rev. David L. Wolfe, pastor. Burial will be held in Tunbridge Village Cemetery, where an Eastern Star service will be conducted by Lady Washington Chapter.
Friends may call Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Boardway & Cilley Funeral, Main Street, Clesea.
Contributions may be made to the Tunbridge Public Library, P.O. Box 9, Tunbridge, 05077.
Rutland Daily Herald, Rutland, Vermont, Saturday, June 5, 1999
Marriages:
Earl Edson Morse -June 21, 1932 (divorced December 20, 1937)
Clinton M. Hackett - January 24, 1938
Frank Ray Keyser - Januuary 8, 1977
She was born June 19, 1911, in Lebanon, N.H., daughter of Charles E. and Evelyn (Thompson) Hock.
She attended schools in Hartford and had worked at the J. J. Newbury store and the Junction Restaurant in White River Junction. For more than 40 years she worked as a night telephone operator for New England Telephone and Telegraph Company in White River Junction, retiring in 1968.
On Jan. 24, 1938, she married Clinton M. Hackett Sr., of White River Junction. They lived for 30 years in White River Junction and built two camps in Ogunquit, Maine, and for years spent their vacations and weekends during the summer there. In 1968 they moved to Tunbridge.
Mr. Hackett died in 1975. She married Judge F. Ray Keyser of Chelsea on Jan. 8, 1977.
Mrs. Keyser enjoyed accompanying the judge on his rounds to courthouses across the state until he was 90 years old.
She was a member of the Methodist Church in White River Junction and alter joined the Tunbridge Congregational Church. She was a life member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and had been an active member of the Pioneers Auxiliary Club. She was a member of Lady Washington Chapter 86 OES of Chelsea, Chelsea Area Senior Citizens, Chelsea Woman's Club, past secretary of the former Tunbridge Village Improvement Society, Inc., and a member of the Tunbridge Village Cemetery Association, Inc. and Tunbridge Market Ladies Aid.
She enjoyed gardening and playing bingo.
Survivors in addition to her husband include a daughter, Elaine R. Cilley; a stepson, F. Ray Keyser Jr. of Proctor; two stepdaughters, Vivian Derrick of White River Junction and Natalie Niles of Concord, Mass.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by a brother, Charles E. Hock Jr., who died in 1980; and two stepsons, Clinton E. Hackett Jr. and Perley Hackett.
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Tunbridge Congregational Church by the Rev. David L. Wolfe, pastor. Burial will be held in Tunbridge Village Cemetery, where an Eastern Star service will be conducted by Lady Washington Chapter.
Friends may call Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Boardway & Cilley Funeral, Main Street, Clesea.
Contributions may be made to the Tunbridge Public Library, P.O. Box 9, Tunbridge, 05077.
Rutland Daily Herald, Rutland, Vermont, Saturday, June 5, 1999
Marriages:
Earl Edson Morse -June 21, 1932 (divorced December 20, 1937)
Clinton M. Hackett - January 24, 1938
Frank Ray Keyser - Januuary 8, 1977
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