Bertha Seeley Duncan

Mrs. Joseph Duncan

Mrs. Joseph Duncan, 76, the former Miss Bertha Seeley, died Saturday night at her home, Mansion street. She was ill for some time.

Mrs. Duncan was born in Pine Plains, the daughter of the late Fleet and Mary Bowman Seeley. She had resided here the greater part of her life. Her husband died two years ago.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Louis Phillips and Mrs. Wilson Durham, Walden, and a son, Harold Mabbette, Red Hook.

Funeral services were conducted at the Pine Plains Presbyterian church at 2 o’clock, this afternoon. The Rev. Charles Moser officiated. Burial was in Evergreen cemetery, Pine Plains, under the direction of Arthur J. Fraleigh.

Published in the Poughkeepsie New Yorker September 5, 1950 page 16