>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:42:08 -0700 >From: "Tami Ramsey" <[email protected]> >Source: [email protected] >Subject: [VAPULASK] Obits Thursday, May 25, 2000 > >CONROY, Ethel Abrams, born September 11, 1918 in Eads, Colorado, passed away >Tuesday, May 23, 2000 at Montgomery Regional Hospital. Ethel moved to Pilot, >Va. from Belmont, Mass. in March of this year. She was known as "Magic >Grandma" to all of her grandchildren. Her favorite hobbies were playing >bingo with her friends, cards with her grandchildren, staying up late and >sleeping all day. She and her late husband, Kenneth L. Conroy, owned and >operated Kenwood Cabins in South Harwich, Mass. for thirty-five years. >During those years, they established a circle of tenants who return year >after year becoming friends rather than just tenants. Her abundant love and >generosity to all her family and friends was given willingly and >unconditionally. She was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth L. >Conroy, son, Robert L. Conroy, and granddaughter, Sandra D. Conroy. >Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, John and Loretta Conroy of Pilot, >Va.; daughter-in-law, Karen D. Scellini of Baltimore, Md.; sister-in-law, >Thelma Conroy of Belmont, Mass; grandchildren and spouses, John and Brenda >Conroy, Kenneth and Mary Conroy, all of Pilot, Va., David and Nina Conroy of >Laurel Fork, Va., Debbie and Dale STOUT of Virginia Beach, Va., Tami and Sam >Balzanna of Fawn Grove, Pa., Robert L. Conroy and Erin Conroy of Lancaster, >Calif., Christopher and Lisa Conroy of Baltimore, Md.; nineteen >great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. Funeral services will >be 11 a.m. Saturday, May 27, 2000 at Calvary Baptist Church, Floyd with Rev. >Graham Mitchell officiating. Interment will follow at Wilson Cemetery. The >family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Maberry Funeral Home, >Floyd. > > >