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Duhaime, Elizabeth A.
SODUS: Age 92, died on Jan. 8, 2003.
She was predeceased by her husband,
Thomas and son, Lawrence. Survived
by her son, Robert (Rachel) of Palmyra;
daughter, Dorothy Eastley of North
Rose; 10 grandchildren; several greatgrandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, contributions
may be made in her memory
to the Newark Manor Nursing Home
Garden Fund.
Everett, Fannie M.:
SODUS/NEWARK: Jan. 8, 2003,
Fannie Mae Everett, 75. She will be
missed by her son & daughter-in-law,
Johnnie and Susan Patterson of
Newark; daughter, Hazel Miller of
Rochester; 5 step-children; 9 grandchildren;
many great-grandchildren; brothers,
Heywood Jackson of CT. &
Charles Jackson of CA.; several nieces
& nephews. Mrs. Everett was predeceased
by her husband, Frank Everett in
1993 and her son-in-law, Charlie
Miller. A celebration of her life will be
MON. (Jan. 13) at 1 p.m. at the Mt.
Zion Missionary Baptist Church, corner
of Spencer & Holley St. in Lyons.
Burial will follow at Sodus Rural
Cemetery in Sodus. In memory of Mrs.
Everett, please make contributions to
the church or to Come-Unity Center,
Inc., 2 West Main Street, Williamson
14589.
Garrett, Annie Mae
SODUS: Age 84 died on January 8,
2003 in the Via Health, Newark
Campus. She was predeceased by her
husband, Henry and son Henry Jr. She
is survived by 5 children, Theresa
(Richard) Ross of Ann Arbor, MI,
Herbert (Mary) Garrett of Cortland,
Thelma (Robert) Aplicella of Oneonta,
Barbara Garrett of Schenectady and
Linda Diane Garrett Burgess of
Rochester; 11 grandchildren; 11 great
grandchildren; several nieces; nephews
and a host of other relatives and friends.
Interment Lake View Cemetery at the
convenience of the family.
MacCleery, Pearl Ada
SODUS CENTER: Died on Saturday,
January 4, 2003 at ViaHealth of Wayne-
Newark Campus at the age of 95. Pearl
is survived by a special granddaughter,
Marla Sigl of Sodus Center; granddaughter,
Kristy Youngman of Wolcott;
great-granddaughters, Alicia Sigl of
Sodus Center, Amanda Hall of
Macedon and Michelle Hall of
Palmyra; five special little girls, Amber,
Brittany, Sarah, Ashley and Samantha;
special friends, Wes Hall of Palmyra,
Aunt Fran of Clifton Springs, Uncle
Dick of Macedon and Douglas Bodine
of Sodus. Mrs. MacCleery was predeceased
by her companion of many
years, Adrian DeBadts of Sodus Center
and his sons, William and James
DeBadts.
Main, Clara
PALMYRA: Died January 9, 2003 at
the age of 85. Clara is survived by sons
Carl J.(Cheryl) Main of Arizona, Floyd
R. Main; brothers Richard and Oscar
Ruebens, sisters Bertha Main and
Esther Rush. Clara was predeceased by
her husband Harold Main. Family and
friends are invited to attend a Memorial
Service for Clara, Saturday January 18,
2003, 10 a.m. at the McGuire/Hargrave
& Murphy Funeral Home, 123 East
Jackson St. Palmyra. Memorial contributions
may be directed to Clifton
Springs Hospital and Clinic, Extended
Care Facility, 2 Coulter Road, Clifton
Springs, NY 14432-1189.
Shaulis, J. Harvey
LYONS/OVID: Formerly of Lyons, age
70, died January 5, 2003. Survived by
his wife of 36 years, Joan; sons, Paul
(Terri) Shaulis of Virginia, Scott
(Heidi) Shaulis of Ovid, daughter,
Terry (Bob) Hartman of Michigan; 8
grandchildren; sisters, Barbara Woods
and Shirley Harman. Harvey was
retired from Mobil Chemical in
Macedon and was an Air Force veteran
of the Korean Conflict, member of the
Lyons and Ovid VFW Posts, avid
hunter, fisherman and trapper with his
wife. A memorial service will be held at
2:00 PM on Sunday, Jan. 12, at
Interlaken Reformed Church, Rev.
Michael J. Hooker officiating. In lieu of
flowers, memorials may be directed to
the Alzheimer's Disease Center, Box
603, Rochester, NY 14642 or
Interlaken Reformed Church, P.O. Box
335, Interlaken, NY 14847.
Smith, Hazel C.
NEWARK: Jan. 1, 2003, Hazel
Cunningham Smith, 90. She is survived
by many nieces & nephews including
Betty Austin of Newark, Ronald Austin
of TX, Dorothy Frank of Newark,
George Schwartz of Newark, Melvin
Schwartz of CT & Richard Swartz of
Rochester; several great-nieces &
nephews including Tim Schwartz of
Japan; step-daughter, Joan (Gerry)
Crider of Newark; 5 grandchildren & 9
great-grandchildren. Mrs. Smith was
predeceased by her first husband,
Lawrence M. Cunningham of
Williamson in 1984 & her second husband,
Earl M. Smith of Palmyra in
1999. Fulfilling Mrs. Smith wishes,
there will be no prior calling hours. A
Memorial Service will be SAT., Jan. 11,
2003 at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist
Church of Newark, E. Miller St.,
Newark. Burial at Newark Cemetery at
the convenience of the family. In memory
of Mrs. Smith, please direct contributions
to the Newark-Arcadia
Volunteer Ambulance, P.O. Box 680,
Newark 14513, First Baptist Church of
Newark or to a charity of choice.
Tange, Mary K.
NEWARK: Mary K. Tange, 88, died
December 24, 2002.
Weeks, Maudie Hewitt
NORTH ROSE: Maudie Hewitt Weeks
was a pioneering social planner who
achieved national attention for creating
Hope Village, the nation's first rural
cooperatively-owned housing development
for low-income people. She was
also was associated for many years
with the Cayuga County Community
Council (CCCC), for which she served
as executive director throughout most
of the 1960's. It was while she was at
CCCC that she developed what was
known as the Basic Education for Adult
Migrants (BEAM) program. This five
county effort reached out to seasonal
farm workers all over central New
York, offering them opportunities to
overcome illiteracy and develop skills
that would help them get permanent,
better paying jobs out of the migrant
stream. Her work attracted the attention
of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy whom she
escorted on a much publicized tour
through migrant camps In 1967, exposing
squalid housing and unsafe working
conditions. Some migrant workers participating
in the BEAM program asked
Mrs. Weeks if she might help them find
a way to get decent housing, as well as
education. Researching government
housing programs together, they discovered
one offered by the Farmers
Home Administration which would
allow a group of low-income people to
buy houses cooperatively. Mrs. Weeks,
along with the Revs. Alex Brown,
Luther Hughes, and James Ross, who
were migrants, were the first to apply
for funding. Working with government
officials, they developed regulations
needed to run the program, and
resolved many of its complex financing
issues. Sen. Jacob Javits and Cong.
Frank Horton became staunch supporters,
as they recognized the groundbreaking
work that Mrs. Weeks was
doing Sen. Javits used his influence to
get Hope Village exempted from a
moratorium on government funding for
housing imposed by the Nixon
Administration; it was the only such
exemption in the country. Cong.
Horton, in turn, willingly took on any
federal bureaucrats who attempted to
adversely impact Hope Village. The
Town of Huron; Wayne County, where
Hope Village was eventually built, initially
tried to block the project. A three
year legal battle in federal court was
settled in Hope Village's favor. The first
families moved into Hope Village in
October 1978. Within a few years, after
seeing how successfully Hope Village
was being self-managed by its residents;
Huron reversed its position and
asked Mrs. Weeks to expand the community.
Fifteen additional houses were
built. Mrs. Week became an ardent
advocate for rural cooperative ownership
housing. She spoke at many
national conferences and frequently
traveled to Washington to work with
officials there to apply the lessons
learned at Hope Village to other rural
coop housing efforts across the country.
Mrs. Weeks' work with Hope Village
began only after she had retired from a
long career that included several years
as a elementary school teacher and
social worker indeed, it was while
teaching in an impoverished coal town
in eastern Pennsylvania that she was
first drawn to political work. "Trying to
teach hungry kids,' she often noted,
"made you understand you had to do
something about the hunger before you
could teach them to read, Returning to
Auburn, New York, where she had
grown up, she became involved in
numerous public service activities,
especially those focused on public;
health and child welfare, and often as a
volunteer. After her son was diagnosed
as suffering from Downs syndrome, she
helped organize a school for retarded
children, and in subsequent years
worked to create, a sheltered workshop.
Mrs. Weeks worked for three years as a
case worker for Cayuga County's
Department of Social Welfare, before
being asked, in 1961, to become executive
director of the Cayuga County
Community Council. Over the next
eight years, she ran the Council, directing
a multi-county Job Corps program,
overseeing the reconstruction of an
Owasco Indian village where one had
stood for centuries on Owasco Lake,
and undertaking a large number of programs
aimed at improving the harsh
working and living conditions encountered
by many migrant workers, among
other projects. Mrs. Weeks was vigorously
supported throughout her career
by her husband, Edwin R. Weeks, a
design engineer for Crouse-Hinds, and
later, Xerox. They also shared a passion
for boating, especially sailboats. For
many years, they were part of a summer
community at Farley's Point on Cayuga
Lake and took part in sailboat racing
there. Later, after the family moved to
Shaker Heights overlooking Lake
Ontario in 1969, they became active in
the Sodus Bay Waterways Association,
and the Red Jacket Power Squadron.
State College in Pennsylvania. She did
Graduate Work at Syracuse University,
and was certified as a social worker by
the State of New York. Mrs. Weeks was
the recipient of a vast number of
awards and honors, including Cayuga
County Woman of The Year in 1955. Of
special pleasure was the Jefferson
Award presented in 1986 by WTVH
Syracuse in cooperation with the
American Institute of Public Service.
She was also inducted into the
Farmworker Advocate Hall of Fame in
1993 in recognition of her three
decades of work on behalf of seasonal
workers. Mrs. Weeks' three children,
daughters Joan and Peggy, and son
Eddie (Edwin, Jr.) predeceased her, as
did her husband. Edwin R. Weeks Sr.
She is survived by several nieces and
nephews. Interment will be in the Ft.
Hill Cemetery at the convenience of the
family. In lieu of flowers contributions
may be made in her memory to a charity
of our choice.
