1925 obit--Mary H. Amato-Brattleboro, Windham Co. VT
Date:	7/30/98 1:30:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time

from the Brattleboro Reformer
Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont
				1925

		     DEATH COMES TO MARY H. AMATO

  Made Record of Excellent Scholarship in High School Class of 1925
		and Planned to Study Law

	After an illness of several months with tuberculosis, Mary Helen Amato,
19 died at 5.20 yesterday afternoon at her home on Mountain View
avenue.  As early as last May her health began to fail but it was not
until August that alarming symptoms developed.  In September she spent
some time at the state sanitariun in Pittsford, but the disease had
progressed too far to allow effective treatment.  Since her return she
had grown steadily weaker.

	Oldest daughter of Angelo and Rosa Maria Amato, Mary was born in
Winhall, Nov. 6 1906, but had spent practically all her life in
Brattleboro.  She was graduated from the hgh school in June 1925, and
had planned to enter Middlebury college this fall.  Her school record
was one not only of excellent scholarship but of keen interest in every
activity connected with its work.  In her senior year she was president
of the student counci, assistant editor of the Dial, president of the
French club and actively connected with the debating and dramatic
clubs.  She took one of the leading parts in She Stoops to Conquer,
given in 1924, and was one of the class prophets at commencement last
June.

	Courage, ambition and appreciation for her opportunities were
characteristics of Mary Amato's short life that endeared her to her
schoolmates and won respect and admiration from a much wider circle. 
Determined on the best that education could give in the hope that she
might eventually take up the study of law, she was never forgetful of
what others did to give her such an opportunity.  Obstacles that might
have looked large to others were to her bur a challenge, and her
determination to surmount them was a trait that endured to the last
stages of her illness.

	Besides her parents she leaves one brother, Joseph, and two sisters,
Doris and Milly.

	Funeral services will take place in St. Michael's Roman Catholic
church, of which she was a communicant, tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock,
with burial in St. Michael's cemetery.
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(c)1998, Terry Perham
Courtesy of
Terry Perham
Hinsdale, NH
tess@sover.net

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