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M. Elizabeth Grucelski

August 16, 2006

M. Elizabeth Grucelski, 86, formerly of 179 Highland Ave., died Wednesday at Epoch Senior Center in Brewster, where she had resided for two years.

Born in Tupper Lake, N.Y., on Oct. 4, 1919, daughter of Albert W. and Regina Carron Trombley, she was a 1937 graduate of Tupper Lake High School.

Mrs. Grucelski was a seamstress. For several years, she was employed by the former Holden & Stone department store and the former Williams Sewing Center. She then worked from her home, making draperies, and retired in the 1960s.

She was a communicant of St. Charles' Church and enjoyed needlework and making dolls.

She and her husband, Joseph C. Grucelski, were married Oct. 18, 1941, at the former Notre Dame Church. He died Jan. 30, 2003.

She leaves a son, Albert A. Grucelski of Sparks, Md.; two daughters, Joanne G. Bradford of Pittsfield and Elizabeth M. Grucelski of Wellfleet; two brothers, Percy Trombley of Tupper Lake and Robert Trombley of Utica, N.Y.; five sisters, Nita St. Onge and Theresa Riley, both of Tupper Lake, Rita Pentlen of Chittanango, N.Y., Bernadette LaBarge of Willis, Texas, and Florence Bressette of Toronto; seven grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.

FUNERAL NOTICE -- A Liturgy of Christian Burial for M. Elizabeth Grucelski, who died Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006, will be celebrated Monday, Aug. 21, at 10 at St. Charles' Church by the Rev. Peter A. Gregory, pastor.

Burial will follow in St. Joseph's Cemetery. At the request of Mrs. Grucelski, there will be no calling hours. In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to the Berkshire Humane Society or to the charity of one's choice, in care of DERY FUNERAL HOME, 54 Bradford St., Pittsfield, MA 01201.

Mrs. Grucelski also leaves her daughter-in-law, Marylou Voith-Grucelski; her son-in-law, Earl Bradford; seven grandchildren, Michele Sondrini, Jeffrey Bradford, Suzanne Bradford, Patricia Rand, Daniel Gratton, Roberta Hall and Mark Gratton; 12 great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by two brothers, Louis Trombley and Joseph Trombley, and by two sisters, Patricia Trombley and Dora Mae Hayes.


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