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[Bangor Daily News, December 18, 2008]
HURON, Ohio -- Elva Irene (Dickson) Hovey Coy, 94, passed away December 16, 2008, at Erie County Care Facility, Huron, Ohio, after a long and cherished life. She was born November 11, 1914, in Trenton, Nova Scotia. She moved to (Derby) Maine with her parents and three sisters when she was 6 and attended school there, graduating from Milo High School, Class of 1932. She went on to graduate from Beal Business College, Bangor. She moved to Massachussetts with her first husband and was employed by First National Packing Co., in the Boston area, and was a member of the Teamsters Union for a number of years prior to moving to Vermillion, Ohio, in 1958. She worked at Vermillion City Police Department for more than a decade as one of the first female emergency dispatcher in Northern Ohio, retiring in 1972. Elva was a member of the Congregational Church. She moved back to the Pemaquid Point area of New Harbor, Maine, with her second husband, where she was a member of the Willing Workers, volunteered with Meals on Wheels and opened cottages for the summer residents. She spent the last 10 years in Huron, Ohio, to be close to her family.
Elva is survived by her son, George Dickson Hovey and his wife, Sally, of Huron, Ohio; six grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. She was predeaseced by her first husband, Earl Varney "Pete" Hovey in 1968; her loving daughter, Anna Lee Gove Parker in 1991; her second husband, Ronald A. Coy in 1993; her parents, Oswald Lawson and Elizabeth (Crooks) Dickson; and her three sisters, Georgia Hoxie, Margaret Coy and Vera Robinson-Neff.
A private graveside service will be held at a later date at Rugby Cemetery, Mason Road, Brownhelm Township, Ohio. Etc., etc.
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