Watertown Daily Times 1994
Ethel Dickinson,Watertown,Dies at 101
She and Husband Ran Henderson Farm
Ethel J. Dickinson,101,formerly of 109 Woodlawn Ave., Glen Park,died Thursday morning in Mercy Center for Health Services, where she had been a resident since May 1993.
There will be no funeral or calling hours. Burial will be in Woodside Cemetery,Ellisburg. Arrangements are with Reed & Benoit Funeral Home.
Surviving are three grandaughters;several great-grandchildren and a neice and two nephews.
A son Harold K. and a brother,Glenn VanNorman,died before her.
Born March 30,1893, in Watertown, she was the daughter of George and Minnie Butts VanNorman. The family lived on several farms around Jefferson County. She was educated in rural schools.
She married Floyd Dickinson of Belleville,on April 5,1911,in Adams. The couple operated a farm on Bishop Street Road in the town of Henderson until 1943. In 1944,Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson moved to Watertown,where Mrs. Dickinson worked as a painter and carpenter with Eveleigh Contractors. They moved to Glen Park in 1957. Mr. Dickinson died May 4,1962.
Mrs. Dickinson was a member of the Belleville Methodist Church,the Home Bureau and the Smithville Grange before moving to an adult home in Cape Vincent in 1979 and to Whispering Pines in 1986.
Note: She was my Great Aunt on my fathers side and was adopted at birth by the VanNormans. She never knew or wanted to know her birth parents. She was loved as their child. ( Thelma Moye)
Watertown Daily Times 1994
Ethel Dickinson,Watertown,Dies at 101
She and Husband Ran Henderson Farm
Ethel J. Dickinson,101,formerly of 109 Woodlawn Ave., Glen Park,died Thursday morning in Mercy Center for Health Services, where she had been a resident since May 1993.
There will be no funeral or calling hours. Burial will be in Woodside Cemetery,Ellisburg. Arrangements are with Reed & Benoit Funeral Home.
Surviving are three grandaughters;several great-grandchildren and a neice and two nephews.
A son Harold K. and a brother,Glenn VanNorman,died before her.
Born March 30,1893, in Watertown, she was the daughter of George and Minnie Butts VanNorman. The family lived on several farms around Jefferson County. She was educated in rural schools.
She married Floyd Dickinson of Belleville,on April 5,1911,in Adams. The couple operated a farm on Bishop Street Road in the town of Henderson until 1943. In 1944,Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson moved to Watertown,where Mrs. Dickinson worked as a painter and carpenter with Eveleigh Contractors. They moved to Glen Park in 1957. Mr. Dickinson died May 4,1962.
Mrs. Dickinson was a member of the Belleville Methodist Church,the Home Bureau and the Smithville Grange before moving to an adult home in Cape Vincent in 1979 and to Whispering Pines in 1986.
Note: She was my Great Aunt on my fathers side and was adopted at birth by the VanNormans. She never knew or wanted to know her birth parents. She was loved as their child. ( Thelma Moye)
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