A funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, October 29 at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Church in Boonville for Ruth D. Coscomb, 90, who died Monday, October 24, 2011.

Mrs. Coscomb was born in Woodgate, a daughter of the late Charles and Lena (Moon) Donahue, and was the last surviving of their seven children. A graduate of Boonville High School and Potsdam Normal School, she taught at Adirondack Central’s Boonville Elementary school for 38 years.

Ruth married Robert H. Coscomb on March 26, 1951 at St. Patrick’s Church in Forestport, where they lived for several years before moving to Boonville, a loving union that lasted until his death in 2003.

For many years Ruth was also the bookkeeper and treasurer for her husband’s logging and lumber businesses. Continue reading →