Doris J. Crosier, 89
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Doris Jane Crosier, 89, of 89 Wells Ave. died Thursday afternoon, Jan. 17, 2002, at North Adams Regional Hospital.
Born in North Adams on Feb. 10, 1912, daughter of Herbert and Elmira Little Loomis, she was a 1929 graduate of Drury High School. She also graduated in 1934 from the former North Adams Normal School, now Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
A longtime elementary school teacher, Mrs. Crosier retired from the Williamstown school system in 1972 after 20 years of service, primarily teaching Grades 1 through 3. She first taught in the former Pumpkin Hook School in Cheshire and the former Florida Elementary School, both one-room schoolhouses, and later in North Adams and Clarksburg.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church, the Friends of the North Adams Public Library, the Harper Center Bridge Club in Williamstown, and the Massachusetts Teachers Association. She enjoyed reading, doing crossword puzzles, golf and square dancing at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Williamstown.
She leaves her husband, Frederick E. Crosier, whom she married Nov. 28, 1935; two daughters, Cynthia J. Crosier Baird of West Brookfield and Susan Crosier Jones of Middlefield, N.Y., and five grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE — Services for Mrs. Crosier will be Monday, Jan. 21, at 1 in First United Methodist Church, North Adams, with the Rev. Susan Stewart, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in Southview Cemetery. There will be no calling hours.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests those who wish may make a donation to the North Adams Public Library Book Fund through AUGE-SAN SOUCIE-SIMMONS FUNERAL HOME, 46 North Church St., North Adams, MA 01247, which is in charge of arrangements.