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- MARY HARTER GAYNE - TEACHER
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - December 16, 2003Browse Issues
Mary Lee Harter Gayne, 59, Largo, Fla., formerly of Watertown, died Friday at Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater, Fla. She had been ill with cancer.
Mrs. Gayne taught school at Adams Center-Adams Central School and for the Watertown City School District and retired after more than 15 years with the Dunedin (Fla.) Elementary School.
Born Oct. 29, 1944, in Watertown, daughter of Ralph W. and Emily W. Harter, she graduated from Watertown High School in 1962, attended the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and graduated from Potsdam State University College in 1967.
She married Vernon B. Gayne Jr. on Feb. 18, 1967, at Holy Family Church with Monsignor William J. Arby and the Rev. John B. Smiley officiating. The couple moved to Dunedin, Fla., in 1977, and later to New Orleans.
She was a member of St. Cecelia Catholic Church, Clearwater, was a volunteer coordinator for Start the Adventure in Reading, New Orleans, and received the St. Louis Order Award from the Archdiocese of New Orleans for her work with STAIR.
Surviving besides her husband are a son, Mark, Jacksonville, Fla.; two daughters, Valerie Gayne and Sara Spiva, both of Clearwater; a sister, Nadine Finkelstein, Pinellas Park, Fla., and three grandchildren.
A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. today at St. Cecelia Catholic Church.
Arrangements are with Moss- Feaster Funeral Home, Dunedin.
Donations may be made to STAIR, 1545 State St., New Orleans, La. 70118.
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1944 - 2003 (59 years)