HELEN L. SEELYE RETIRED CATERER
The funeral for Helen Louise Quail Seelye, 93, formerly of Star Lake, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at St. Hubert's Church with the Rev. Eugene J. Beaudet officiating. Burial will be in St. Hubert's Cemetery.
Mrs. Seelye died early Saturday at Genesis HealthCare, Watertown.
Calling hours will be from 11 to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at Hawley Funeral Home.
Mrs. Seelye worked for several families throughout the north country, providing food and housekeeping services, including the late Seth G. Malby, Ogdensburg, former sales manager of Aluminum Company of America, Massena, and the late Ronald W. and Esther Hynes, Star Lake. Mr. Hynes was a former president of Newton Falls Paper Co.
Mrs. Seelye also catered parties.
She was a communicant of St. Hubert's Church and a former member of its Altar and Rosary Society.
Born March 5, 1907, in Monkland, Ontario, a daughter of Ronald and Helen Wheeler Quail, she attended St. Andrew's West School and owned a dressmaker's shop in Monkland.
She married Donald George Seelye on Feb. 12, 1934, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Ogdensburg, with the Rev. John A. Cotter officiating, and became a U.S. citizen at age 29. The couple ran a riding stable during the 1930s at Edgewater, N.J., and in 1946 moved to the Star Lake area, where they owned a small marina and a gas station for boats on Star Lake.
Surviving are a brother, Howard Quail, Monkland; two sisters, Muriel O'Brien, Pointe Claire, Quebec, and Hilda Quail, Watertown, and several nieces and nephews.
Five sisters, Evelyn Hawley, Elma MacIntosh, Eileen Jones, Florence McDonald and May Quail, and three brothers, Charles, Walter and John Quail, died before her.
Published in the Watertown Daily Times (NY) on May 15, 2000
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