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- MARGARETVILLE - Committal services for Naomi J. Weiss, who died Dec. 30, 2014, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 2, in the Margaretville Cemetery Annex, Margaretville, with the Rev. Harold Patterson officiating.
Arrangements by the Hynes Funeral Home, Margaretville.
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MARGARETVILLE - Naomi J. Weiss of Margaretville died Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014, at Mountainside Care Center, where she had resided for the past year and a half.
Born Jan 11, 1929, in Plainfield, N.J., she was the daughter of Dr. Edward A. and Naomi Wish Kircher. She was a 1946 graduate of Plainfield High School. She received her bachelor of arts degree in Bible and religion, with a minor in journalism, at Syracuse University in the class of 1950, where she was member of the National Bible Honor Society, Theta Chi Beta. She later went on to receive her Master of Library Science degree and New York State Librarian certification through Oneonta and Geneseo State University colleges.
It was at Syracuse, at a freshman “mixer” dance, that a gentleman came up to her, asked her to dance, and they became a couple for eternity. She went on to marry this gentleman on July 29, 1950. It was on that day that she became Mrs. Alton Weiss.
After raising her children to school age, she took a job working for several years as an aide, then, she became librarian at Margaretville Central school until her retirement in 1986. Soon after retirement, she became the librarian for Fairview Public Library, where she remained until her second retirement in 2001. She oversaw the library’s relocation from Arkville to its location in Margaretville, and very much enjoyed the interaction with people.
During her high school years, Naomi had been a World War II volunteer in airplane spotters program along the east coast, and was a member of the Civil Air Patrol. She had also served as a camp counselor for one summer. In Margaretville she had been a member of the Junior Home Bureau and served many years as a newspaper “Local and Personal” correspondent.
She was also on the Girl Scouts committee and served twice as a Boy Scout Cub Den mother.
Mrs. Weiss is survived by her husband of 64 years, Alton M. Weiss; two sons, William E. Weiss of Titusville, Fla., and Donald P. Weiss of Margaretville; three daughters, Mrs. Ruth (Stephen) Haffly of Wake Forest, N.C., Mrs. Lisa (Thomas) Ruane of Peoria, Ariz., and Marta Weiss (Dan Killmer) of Wassaic. Also surviving are three grandsons; two granddaughters; three great-grandsons; three great-granddaughters and a sister, Miss Ann Kircher of Scotch Plains, N.J.
She was predeceased by her parents and a sister, Charlotte (Mrs. Walter) Hoffman.
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