ETTA MARY WAITE OBITUARY, JEFFERSON, NEW YORK

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Former Belleville
         Resident Expires
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 Mrs. L. J. Waite, formerly of Belleville, passed away on Monday, March 16th, at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. H. J. Cheever, at Wenatchee, Washington.

 Etta Clark Waite was born May 29, 1953, the daughter of Horace and Mary Ann Hunting Clark,
early set- tlers in the town of Ellisburg, and the widow of the late Levi J. Waite, a merchant
of Belleville.

 Mrs. Waite was a resident of Belleville the greater part of her life, but for several years
after the death of her husband she spent the winters with her son Leon, in Flor- ida.  During
the last fifteen years she made her home with her two daughters, Mrs. W. W. Reed, of Seattle,
and Mrs. H. J. Cheever, of Wenatchee, Washington.

 Mrs. Waite was a member of the Baptist church of Belleville and a former member of the Order
of the Eastern Star, and of Deborah Cham- pion Chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.  During her residence in Belleville she was always actively interested in civic
affairs and her close affiliations with the library, Union Academy and the church were well
known.  Her inter- est in the friends and activities of her home town continued during the
years of her residence in the West, but, possessed of a mind which was alert and progressive,
she did not allow herself to live in the past. Current events and the best and la- test in
literature were of absorbing interest and kept her young in spirit.  With unfailing courage she
faced the illness which caused her death and from which she had suf- fered for several years.

 Besides her two daughters, Mrs. Waite is survived by two sons, Leon M. Waite of Knoxville,
Tenn., and William H. Waite of Watertown; one sister, Mrs. John B. Ely, Belle- ville; one
brother, Gaylord Clark, of the town of Ellisburg; five grandchil- dren, Wesley L. and Stanford
H. Waite of Watertown, Leon M. Waite, Jr., of Jackson, Tennessee, S. Brown- ing Waite of
Charlotte, North Car- olina, and Walter W. Reed, Jr. of Seattle, Washington; one great-
grandchild, Leon M. Waite, III.

 Mrs. Reed and Mrs. Cheever ac- companied the body East, and were met in Syracuse by their two
bro- thers, Leon and William.

 Funeral services were held in the Baptist church in Belleville at 2.30 Sunday afternoon, the
Rev. Mr. Stanford officiating.  Burial was made in the family plot in Wood- side cemetery,
Belleville.