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Watertown Daily Times (NY) - July 28, 2008Browse Issues
Nancy J. Berry, 76, Countryview Apartments, died Sunday at Samaritan Keep Nursing Home, Watertown, where she had been a resident since July 17th.
Mrs. Berry was a foster mother to more than 35 girls over the years. She was a waitress for many years at Tomacy's, Shady Rest and Maple Grove restaurants, all of Adams.
Born Feb. 6, 1932, in Fernwood, a daughter of Walter and Eva Youngs Murray, she was educated at Adams High School.
She married Leonard H. Berry on Sept. 15, 1950, at the home of her parents with the Rev. Gilbert Hemsley officiating. The couple owned and operated a dairy farm on Route 178 from 1967 to 1987. Mr. Berry died Feb. 18, 1991.
Mrs. Berry was a charter member and past treasurer of Adams Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5344 and a member of Adams American Legion auxiliary. She was a Cub Scout den mother.
Surviving are a daughter and her husband, Kathy and Perry Como, Syracuse; a son, John R., Cape Vincent; a granddaughter, whom she raised, and her husband, Amy and Bobby Hatch, Adams; three brothers and two sisters-in-law, Max and Bertha Murray, Sun City, Ariz., Theodore and Sue Murray, Woodville, and Douglas Murray, Bradenton, Fla.; two grandsons, two great-grandsons, and several nieces and nephews.
Three brothers, Carlton, William and Donald Murray, and five sisters, Beatrice Southworth, Virginia Smith, Yvonne Case, Almeda Farman and Esther White died before her.
The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Carpenter-Stoodley Funeral Home, Belleville, with the Rev. N. Bud Masters, pastor of Adams Village Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, town of Henderson.
Calling hours will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
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