Cecile M. Corey

BARRE CITY – Cecile M. Corey, 95, a long-time resident of Prospect and West Streets, died Monday, April 6, 2015 at the Woodridge Nursing Home in Berlin where she had been a patient for almost 5 years.
Born November 21, 1919 in Caribou, Maine, she was the daughter of Amos and Celina (Ziter) Corey and had attended Barre Schools.
In earlier years, she had worked at the former M.H. Fishman Company in Barre and will be remembered as a telephone operator for New England Telephone and Telegraph in their Barre and Montpelier offices, retiring after over 35 years of service.
Her greatest joy was entertaining and cooking for her family and activities in her church.
Cecile was an active communicant of St. Monica’s Catholic Church and belonged to Court St. Monica, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, and the Telephone Pioneers and the Central Vermont Hospital Auxiliary and its gift shop volunteers.
Survivors include her nephew David Corey and his wife Charlotte, and their children Joseph, Timothy, Keri and Dawn; and nieces Carol Ryan and her husband, Michael; Eleanor Senay; Mildred Zimmerman; and Claire Gordon and her husband, Colin and numerous other grandnieces and grandnephews.
She was predeceased by her sisters Eva Wobby and Ida Haddad and brothers Joseph, Anthony, and Louis Corey and several nieces and nephews.
The Mass of Christian Burial to honor Cecile’s life will be celebrated on Friday, April 10, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in St. Monica Catholic Church.
Burial will follow in St. Monica Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Hooker and Whitcomb Funeral Home, 7 Academy Street, Barre preceding the Mass, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Resident Activity Fund, Woodbridge Nursing Home, PO Box 550, Barre, VT 05641.