Edith C. Pritting

HOWARD - Edith C. Pritting, age 102, passed away peacefully Saturday, August 18, 2007 at the Maryville Home for Adults in Howard, where she had resided for 11 years.

Edith was born July 20, 1905, the fifth of ten children of John and Jesse (Wheaton) Cragg. She was born and raised on Lent Hill in Cohocton. She was a graduate of the North Cohocton Teacher's Training School and later was a teacher in a country school in Italy Valley.

Edith united in marriage with Harvey Pitting on June 5, 1924. They lived briefly in Wallace, where Edith substituted for her brother, William, as a school bus driver. They then went to Spencerport and later moved to New York City where Harvey was employed by the U.S. Postal Service. Many of her siblings would fondly recall visiting them during the 1939 Worlds Fair. After New York City, they moved to Buffalo and then Marilla, NY, where they bought the home that most of their nieces and nephews remember for visits in the summer with trips to the zoo and to the museums in Buffalo. Edith was employed as a postal worker at the Marilla Post Office. After Harvey passed away in 1980, Edith moved back to this area and lived with family members before moving to Avoca and then to Maryville in Howard in 1996.

In addition to her husband a parents, Edith was also predeceased by her brothers, Orin (Ruby Thorp) Cragg, Owen (Dorothy Peck) Cragg, Theodore Cragg, William (Doris Layton) Cragg, Gordon Cragg and Warren (Helen Corey, Eleanor Keysor) Cragg; her sisters, Rebecca (Norbert) Kramer, Orpha (Henry) Whiteman and Ora (Frank) Sanderson.

She is survived by her brother-in-law, Robert Pritting; and sister-in-law, Ruth (Cleveland) Cragg; as well as four generations of nieces and nephews.

Friends called at the Walter E. Baird & Sons Funeral Home, 100 E. Naples St., Wayland, where funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, August 22, 2007. Burial is in Mapleview Cemetery, Cohocton.

Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, the Maryville Home for Adults, the Avoca United Methodist Church or the Cohocton United Methodist Church in memory of Edith. Thos who wish to light a memory candle for Edith may do so at www.bairdfuneralhomes.com.