Ethel Roy, 75
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Ethel Roy, 75, of 611 State Road died Monday, Oct. 10, 2005, at the home of her daughter, Deborah A. Robert, in Adams.Born in the Greylock section of North Adams on Jan. 28, 1930, daughter of Fritz Karl and Mariann Wabnig Hannaleck, she attended local schools.
Mrs. Roy was briefly employed by the former Sprague Electric Co. and worked at the former Hoosac Cotton Mill until it closed. She also worked with her husband, George Henry Roy, as a bookkeeper during the years they ran the former Bob & Hank's Service Center in North Adams.
She was a communicant of St. Patrick's Church of Williamstown and a member of the Williamstown American Legion Post 125. She was a volunteer foster grandparent at Brayton Elementary School. She was a devoted mother and grandmother.
Her husband, whom she married on Oct. 30, 1948, died in March 2000.
Besides her daughter, she leaves a son, George Jeffrey of Gardner; another daughter, Gail Roy Van Slycke of Williamstown; five sisters, Lillian Schafer of Pittsfield, Dorothy Poplaski of Pahrump, Nev., Doris Mary Heyes of Williamstown, Helen O'Neill of Adams and Florence Diodati of Williamstown; a brother, Clarence Hannaleck of Largo, Fla., 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by a sister, Freida Davis of Maryland, and a brother, Eric Hannaleck of California.
FUNERAL NOTICE — A memorial service for Ethel Roy will be held Saturday, Oct. 15, 11 a.m., at St. Patrick's Church, Southworth Street, Williamstown.
She chose to donate her remains to the Anatomical Gift Program of the Albany (N.Y.) Medical College in hopes of doing what she could to further the study and cure of Crohn's disease. With this in mind, she requests, in lieu of flowers, that memorial donations be made to the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America.