- "Mrs. Mary Louise Selleck, wife of Rev. Willard C. Selleck, and sister of Gilbert A. Blackmon, Lowville, died on February 28 at Fernwood Rest Home, Hollywood, Calif., after an illness of three years. She was born in Hammond, St. Lawrence county, New York, May 19, 1852. She was the second of three children of Frederick William Atwater Blackmon and his first wife, Diadama Franklyn Blackmon. Her mother died when she was only four years of age and her father later married again. She spent her early life at home and attended the public school at Hammond. On October 27, 1881, she married Mr. Selleck and went with him to his first parish at Clifton Springs, N.Y. In 1883 they removed to Norwood, Mass., and the next year to Franklyn, Mass. In 1890 they went to Denver, Colo.; in 1895 back east to Providence, R.I.; in 1915 to Utica and to Riverside in 1919.
Besides her husband she is survived by one son, Martineau Selleck, of Compton, Calif., and one brother, Gilbert A. Blackmon, of Lowville.
Funeral services were held on March 1 at the J. H. Flinn funeral parlors, Dr. Carl S. Henry, pastor of Throop Memorial Universalist church, Pasadena, and Dr. John Gardner, of the First Congregational church, officiating. Mrs. Minnie Mansfield, former organist of the Church of the Reconciliation, Utica, played Handel's "Largo" at the opening service. The six trustees of the All Souls Universalist church [in Watertown, NY] were pall bearers. The body was placed in the vault in Evergreen cemetery and in the spring will be taken to Providence, R.I. for burial. "
(The Journal & Republican, Lowville, Lewis Co. NY, Thu. 15 Mar 1928)
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1853 - 1928 (74 years)
