Mary Margaret A. Gowdy died Sunday, April 7, 2013 at Fletcher Allen Hospital surrounded by her loving family.
She was born June 21, 1939 in Cortland/ Groton NY area. She was the daughter of Evelyn Pankovits Irving and George Finn and the step-daughter of Emmett Irving.
Including these 3 she was also predeceased by her paternal grandparents Mable and Harold Finn of Groton, NY and Maternal Grandmother Ethel Pankovits of Florida, 3 Uncles Emery Pankovits, Rudy Pankovits and Vincent Pankovits and 2 aunts Fidelma Pankovits and Kathleen
Yates.
She is a member of the St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church.
She was married to George Gowdy in 1959 and lived in North Syracuse, NY before moving to the Elizabethtown area in 1969.
Mary Margaret is survived by a son Scott T. Gowdy and his wife Wanda, a daughter Carolyn Gowdy George and her husband Joseph of Amherst, NH and five grandsons Michael and Cody Gowdy both of Lewis and Taylor, Jarod and Spencer all of New Hampshire.
Mary Margaret worked several years in the Groton Bakery for Arnold Heffron. She attended a cosmetology school in Syracuse NY in 1958. She also worked at the Elizabethtown Lewis Central School for 30 years as well as the Essex County Jail as a matron for 12 years. After retiring she worked at the local High Peaks Video Store in Elizabethtown for 3 years.
Growing up she spent all her summers on the Owasco Lake in Indian Cove Moravia NY at the cottage Finnland of Grandparents Mable and Harold Finn affectionately known as Bobo and Gramp. She and her mother also traveled to New York City each year on the Black Diamond Train out of Ithaca NY to visit family.
Never working there herself but many family members worked at the L.C. Smith Corona since it began. That was quite a bit of history as typewriters and adding machines were the main source of revenue in Groton, Syracuse and eventually opening a plant in Cortland. During WW II the plant also made ammunition. An Uncle John Coburn was instrumental in making the first electric typewriter in Syracuse. LC Smith Merchant merged with Durkee Spices but went out of business in the early 1960s.
Calling hours were held Wednesday April 10, 2013 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at W.M. Marvins Funeral Home in Elizabethtown. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Thursday April 11th, 2013 at St. Elizabeth's Church in Elizabethtown. Burial will be at a later date in St. Elizabeth's Cemetery.
Donations are asked to be made to the Elizabethtown Lewis Ambulance Service.
To offer online condolences please visit www.wmmarvins.com
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