PLATTSBURGH — Adelaide H. "Auntie" Sweeney, 103, formerly of Dannemora, N.Y., died in the Evergreen Valley Nursing Home Saturday morning, June 7, 2003.

She was born in Bristol, Vt., on Aug. 23, 1899, the daughter of John and Margaret (Bousquet) Sweeney.

Adelaide attended schools in Norfolk, N.Y., and then received her RN diploma from Hepburn Hospital School of Nursing in Ogdensburg, N.Y. She trained in a New York City hospital before returning to Norfolk. There she was a Registered Nurse for Dr. Alfred Wheeler for 47 ½ years.

She moved to Dannemora in 1957. She was a member of St. Joseph’s Church in Dannemora, N.Y.

Survivors include two nephews and wives, Ronald and Wanda Sweeney of Dannemora and Alfred and Jackie Sweeney of Enfield, Conn.; one niece, Martha Sweeney of Dannemora; and several great-nieces and great-nephews.

Adelaide was predeceased by one brother, Theodore J. Sweeney in 1977; one nephew, Robert Sweeney in 1997; and one niece, Margaret (Sweeney) Zsido in 1992.

Calling hours at the R.W. Walker Funeral Home will be from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on Tuesday, June 10, 2003. Funeral services at St. Joseph’s Church are on Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 1 p.m. Burial will follow in St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

AUSABLE FORKS — Edward F. Zielinski Jr. (Jack), 77, of Pleasant Street, AuSable Forks, died Sunday, June 8, 2003, at the CVPH Medical Center, Plattsburgh.

He was born June 16, 1925, in AuSable Forks, the son of Edward F. Sr. and Mabel (Miner) Zielinski.

Jack was a World War II veteran serving in the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the American Legion Post 504, in AuSable Forks. Jack was employed as a sign painter for 17 years at Dame Neon Sign Co., Plattsburgh and he was owner of Zielinski’s Signs in AuSable Forks for several years.

Jack was a avid outdoorsman enjoying, hunting, fishing, trapping and gardening. He also did oil paintings of Adirondack wild life.

Survived by his wife, Ruth (Leggett) Zielinski whom he married June 19, 1963, in AuSable Forks; a daughter and son-in-law, Virginia and John Mancuso of Peru; a son and daughter-in-law, Edward F. Zielinski III and Lisa Zielinski of AuSable Forks; two step daughters, Joan Kaiser of Wilmington, N.C., and Jan Himmel of Nassau; two sisters, June Douglas of Edgewater, Fla., and Gail Laduke of Plattsburgh; eight grandchildren. Ashlee, Sarah, Emmie, Elliot, Julia, Thomas, Erin and Megan.

Predeceased by a brother, Rupert James Zielinski; two sisters, Joan Miller and Virginia Zielinski.

There will be no calling hours. Funeral Mass will be celebrated Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 10 a.m. at the Holy Name Catholic Church, AuSable Forks. Burial will follow in the family plot at Fairview Cemetery, AuSable Forks.

Memorials may be made to the AuSable Forks Volunteer Ambulance Service or the Holy Name School Memorial Fund, AuSable Forks.

Zaumetzer-Sprague Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Plattsburgh — Catherine (Ladue) Keyes, 88, of Plattsburgh, died Monday, June 9, 2003, at the CVPH Medical Center in Plattsburgh.

She was born June 18, 1914, in Plattsburgh, the daughter of the late Charles Ladue and Maude (Butler) Ladue.

She moved from Beekmantown to Plattsburgh in the late 1920’s and graduated from Plattsburgh High School and the Champlain Valley School of Nursing. She had a long career in nursing, as a staff nurse at the Physician’s Hospital, private duty nursing and recovery room nurse until her retirement in 1971. Friends and family remember Kay as an excellent nurse who loved her work.

She was it member of the Retired Nurses Association of New York and a lifelong member of St. John’s Church.

She married Earl Keyes on Oct. 19, 1939. During World War II, she lived and worked in San Francisco, in order to be closer to Earl, who served in the South Pacific. She and Earl were married 47 years. He died in 1987. The last 17 years of their marriage they wintered in St. Petersburg, Fla.

She loved bowling, golf, bridge and skiing. After Earl’s death she spent five wonderful years at the Victoria House. The last four years of her life were spent at Meadowbrook Health Care, where she received excellent treatment.

She is survived by one son, Dr. John Keyes of Fredonia, N.Y.; granddaughters Amanda (Keyes) Wilder and Bonnie (Keyes) Reid; grandson, John Keyes Jr.; and great-grandson, Eli Wilder. She is also survived by her cousins, Mercedes Drown, Dr. William Ladue and Ruth Ladue; nephews, Daniel Ladue, Joe Ladue and Michael Kennedy; niece, Karen Kolbinski; sister-in-law, Rita Ladue; and brother-in-law, Jim Kennedy.

She is predeceased by her husband Earl; her brother, Howard Ladue; and her sister, Margaret Kennedy.

Relatives and friends are invited to call at the O’Neill-Redden-Drown Funeral Home in Plattsburgh on Wednesday, June 11, 2003, from 5 to 7 p.m. and are invited to attend her funeral Mass at St. John’s Church on Thursday, June 12, 2003 at 10 a.m. Burial will follow in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Plattsburgh.

Plattsburgh — Dorothy Spelman Bartlett, 85, died Monday, June 9, 2003, at the CVPH Medical Center in Plattsburgh.

Born in Cicero, Ill., on Aug. 25, 1917, she is the daughter of Walter and Ruth (Schantz) Spelman and a direct descendant of Bridget and John Tilley and Elizabeth and John Howland, who all arrived on the Mayflower in November 1620, and of Samuel Edmonds Jr., a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and Paymaster General of the Militia.

As a child, Dot and her family spent their summers in Champlain at the home of her grandparents, Amasa and Nancy Spelman. There she became a teenage tennis champion and once swam across Lake Champlain from Rouses Point to Vermont.

She graduated from Morton Jr. College in Illinois, received her Bachelor in Economics from the University of

Vermont in 1938 and Masters in Education from Plattsburgh State. She taught fourth and fifth grades in Chazy Central Rural School for 20 years, becoming president of the Chazy Teachers Association.

A resident of Chazy from 1941, she was active in community affairs as a member of the Chazy Presbyterian Church and their Friendship Club, the Home Bureau and the Friends of the Chazy Public Library. She was chairman and swimming director of the Chazy Youth Commission, a Girl Scout Leader and president of the North Country Girl Scout Council, raced in the Trombly’s Bay (sailing) Regatta and created a home-based doll making business called "Dolls to Love".

Since January 2001, Dorothy has resided at the Lake Forest Community, Lake Forest Drive in Plattsburgh, with her husband, Donald Bartlett.

She is survived by her husband of 30 years, Donald; a daughter, Dorothy Trombly and her husband, Richard Labita of Remsenburg and Chazy, N.Y.; two stepsons, Kim and Ted Bartlett and their families of Essex, Mass., and Maitlin, Fla., respectively; a sister and her husband, Constance "Dee" and Robert Kay of South Glens Falls; a brother and his wife, Richard and Eileen Spelman of Jacksonville, Fla.; a sister-in-law and her husband, Audrey and Bob Ormsby of Escondido, Calif. In addition, she leaves five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Dorothy’s first husband, Dudley Scott Trombly of Chazy, whom she married in 1939, died in August 1972. She was predeceased by her daughter, Donna in 1995; two brothers, Walter "Jud" Spelman and John Spelman; and one sister, Margery Spelman Dresser. A memorial service will be held at the Chazy Presbyterian Church at a later date.

Those wishing to may make memorial donations to the Chazy Public Library in Chazy, NY.

Arrangements are with Brown Funeral Home in Plattsburgh.

Eva L. (White) Rabideau, of Kenwood Avenue in Delmar, died Monday, June 9, 2003, at the CVPH Medical Center in Plattsburgh.

She was born on July 23, 1912, daughter of the late Wallace and Cora (Mckinney) Owens.

Calling hours will be Thursday, June 12, 2003, from 9 a.m. to noon from the Brown Funeral Home in Plattsburgh. A funeral service will follow in the Brown Funeral Home Chapel at noon. Burial will follow in the Saranac Independence Cemetery in Saranac.

Mary L. Jones, 64, of Dannemora, died Monday, June 9, 2003, at the CVPH Medical Center in Plattsburgh.

She was born in Dannemora on March 2, 1939, the daughter of George and Delvina (Garrow) Cayea.

There will be no calling hours. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday from St. Joseph’s Church in Dannemora. Interment will follow in the parish cemetery.

The O’Neill-Redden-Drown Funeral Home in Plattsburgh is in charge of arrangements.