Minnie E. Ockerman. widow of the late Sumner E. Tuttle of Scio, N. Y. was born September 30, 1875, the daughter of William and Addie Hall Ockerman, and died February 22, 1951, at St. Petersburg, Fla.
She was born on a farm at Phillips Creek and after her education taught school at Scio for a number of years before marrying Mr. Tuttle on June 30, 1897.
She was loyally a member of the Scio Seventh Day Baptist Church more than half a century following her baptism August 13, 1900. She served as a teacher in the Sabbath school and on the Church finance and ministerial committees.
The general store which Mr. Tuttle kept in Scio was always closed Sabbath days and she assisted him there as well as in his public life as justice of the peace and town supervisor. For years they were one of Scio's most prominent families. When her husband's health failed she gave him patient and sometimes arduous care. Animals. band music. and travel were her special interests.
Recently the Scio home has been kept by friends of the family, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Jones, and Mrs. Tuttle has attended services in the Second Alfred Seventh Day Baptist Church at Alfred Station.
Survivors are a first cousin, Mrs. A. C. Allyn of Scio, and a second cousin, Mrs. Mary Flack of Denver. Colo.
The body will be brought to Scio in May for burial in the family plot.
A. N. R.
