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- SPRINGFIELD - Rosemary E. Cruickshank of Springfield died Nov. 29 of age-related causes. She was 85.
Cruickshank was born Aug. 3, 1920, in Amsterdam, N.Y., to W. Jay and Mary Edwards Ellis. She married E. Douglas Cruickshank in New York in 1943. They later divorced.
She received a degree in music from Ithaca College in 1942, and a degree in elementary education from a state university in the late 1940s. She had taught school in Miami, Fla., and in three Springfield elementary schools: Brattain, Mount Vernon and Elizabeth Page.
Cruickshank previously lived in Creswell. She raised and trained shelties, and belonged to the Lady Lions, St. John the Divine Episcopal Church and Creswell Library.
Survivors include a son, Clive of Prince of Wales, Alaska; two sisters, Janet Green of Oneonta, N.Y., and Pat Manwarren of Pulaski N.Y.; two grandchildren and six great- grandchildren.
At her request, no service is planned. American Burial & Cremation Alternatives in Springfield is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to Greenhill Humane Society.
Register Guard Dec 3 2005
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1920 - 2005 (85 years)
d. 1969 (Age 75 years)