Another Sad loss for the North Country

From Newzjunky.com

Former Jefferson County

Treasurer Nancy Browns

Mother has passed

Leone R. Datoush


November 16, 2011

ADAMS, N.Y. — Leone “Onie” R. Datoush, 90, of East Church Street, died Wednesday morning at the Samaritan Keep Home where she was admitted June 28.

The funeral will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, at Piddock Funeral Home, Adams, with Mona Fargo, pastor of the Adams United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Copenhagen. Calling hours will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Born March 22, 1921, in Turin, daughter of Emmett and Alice Peckham Rupert, she was a graduate of Copenhagen High School.

During the war she worked at Savage Arms, Utica and at the Bagley Sewall Defense Plant in Watertown.

She married Jerome “Dayt” Datoush Aug. 17, 1946, at the home of her mother in Copenhagen.

The couple lived in Adams all their married life. Mr. Datoush worked for the W.W. Conde Hardware Store in Watertown following his discharge from the Army where he served in Africa and Italy. “Onie” and “Dayt” purchased the former Gould’s Restaurant in Adams which they operated for 14 years. Mr. Datoush died Nov. 21, 1987.
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