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Mrs. Thomas Philibin
LE ROY Mrs. R. Josephine Philibin of 7 South Street died at noon Saturday, March 14, 1970, at St. Jerome Hospital in Batavia where she had been a patient since February 5.
Mrs. Philibin, who was born in Le Roy March 26, 1888, was a daughter of Michael and Margaret Fitzgerald O'Shea.
A graduate of Le Roy High School and the former Oswego Normal School, Mrs. Philibin taught in Newark, N.J. and Batavia school system until her retirement. She was a member of St. Peter's Church and its Altar and Rosary Society and Ladies of Charity. Her husband Thomas died in 1946.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs. John (Nellie) Ladley of Oswego and nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at the H. Steuber and sons Funeral Home from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today. Services will be from the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday and at St. Peter's Church at 10:00. Interment will be in St. Francis Cemetery.
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Allen B Chatt
CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION at the Ross Street School, taught so thoroughly that I developed a life-long love of first local, then national and world history. For me, Mrs. Philbin was the heir to Bruce Catton ... with the apparently forgotten Sam Krchniak encouraging me along the way.