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- MYRTLE M. SHAMPINE, RETIRED NURSE, DIES
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - January 3, 1995Browse Issues
Myrtle Mae Shampine, 91, of 303 N. Clinton St., a retired nurse and the last survivor in a family of 10 children, died at 4:40 a.m. Monday at Carthage Area Hospital, where she had been a patient since Dec. 24.
Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Bossuot-Lundy Funeral Home, with the Rev. James R. Luck Jr., pastor of the United Community Church of Carthage, and the Rev. Hugh J. Connaghan, former assistant pastor of St. James Catholic Church, officiating. Spring burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.
Calling hours will be from 7 to 9 tonight and 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Donations may be made to the United Community Church.
She is survived by four generations of nieces and nephews.
Four brothers and five sisters died before her: Hilda Belle Shampine at age 3; Lillian Reynolds in 1967, Charles M., 1982, Donald G., 1983, Agnes J. Shampine, 1984, Mary W. Irey, 1987, Frances A. Spicer, 1989, Douglas B., 1992, and Clyde W., in 1993.
Born April 12, 1903, in Antwerp, she was a daughter of Merton C. and Minnie Frawley Shampine. She attended schools in Gouverneur, Antwerp, Evans Mills and Carthage.
After graduating in 1925 as a registered nurse from the nursing school at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center in Ogdensburg, she moved to Brooklyn, where for 21 years she worked in several hospitals as a general and private-duty nurse.
Miss Shampine returned to Carthage in 1947 to live on North Clinton Street with her ill mother, who died in 1965. She had since resided there.
She resumed general and private-duty nursing in 1950 at West Carthage Community Hospital and the old Carthage Hospital on State Street until 1969, when she retired.
She was a 73-year member of Rebekah Lodge 238, Carthage, and a 60-year member of the United Community Church of Carthage.
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1903 - 1995 (91 years)