This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6050 Message Board Post: MRS. BALFOUR D. MILLS WISCOY - Mrs. Lenora M. MILLS of this community died Friday (April 22, 1977) at Cuba Memorial Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Tuscarora on Aug. 15, 1897, a daughter of Charles and Abby SCHUKNECHT GREEN. On Dec. 6, 1921, she married Balfour D. MILLS, who died in 1973. Mrs. MILLS attended the Wiscoy-Rossburg United Methodist Church. She was a 50-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Aurora Chapter 248 of Fillmore; and a member of the Genesee Rebekah Lodge 491 of Hume. She taught school throughout northern Allegany County for many years prior to school centralization. Surviving are five sons, Bernard MILLS of Fillmore, Lowell MILLS of Wiscoy, Stewart MILLS of Angelica, Alan MILLS of Caneadea, and R. Craig MILLS of Canandaigua; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Jeanne) IRWIN of Wiscoy; 15 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Harold (Frieda) RORK of Rossburg. Friends are being received at the Kopler Funeral Home, 21 N. Genesee St., Fillmore, today from 7 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held there Monday (April 25, 1977) at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Irwin REIST, pastor of the Wiscoy-Rossburg United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be at Alger Cemetery, town of Hume. Memorials, if desired, may be made to the Fillmore Rescue Squad or a charity of the donor's choice. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]