Phoebe Elizabeth Mattice

She was born September 8, 1923 in Bloomville, NY the daughter of the late James and Hetty (Martin) McLean. She had three sisters and three brothers.

She married Kenneth W. Mattice, Jr. on March 22, 1947. Kenneth predeceased her on January 10, 2001.

She and her husband ran a dairy farm for several years when they were first married. Phoebe was also a waitress at Jack’s Restaurant in Oneonta then at the Oneonta Hotel Restaurant, and finally as a meat packer for Mattice’s Meat Packing on Pony Farm Road, Oneonta.

Phoebe was an active member of the River Street Baptist church where she was a Sunday School Teacher, a member of the Ladies Missionary Society and church treasurer for many years.

She enjoyed both flower and vegetable gardening and preserving the fruits of her labor for use when the growing season was over. She was an accomplished cook and homemaker and enjoyed embroidery work and writing letters and devotions for the encouragement of her friends and family. But tending to babies and small children gave her the greatest joy and contentment.

Phoebe is survived by two children and their spouses, Kenneth K. and Marian Mattice of West Oneonta and Shirley J. and Frank Moore of Edgewood, Maryland; daughter-in-law, Patricia Mattice of Davenport; 14 grandchildren; 24 great grandchildren; and three great great grandchildren; two sisters, Jennie Crandall of Oneonta and Margaret Donofrio of New Smyrna Beach, FL; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by three children, Frank W. Mattice of Unadilla, Nancy A. Goulet of Tuscaloosa, AL and Mary E. Johnson of Davenport; three brothers, Kenneth McLean, William McLean and Claude Turk; and one sister, Phyllis Hanford.

Calling hours will be held on Monday, March 17, 2014 in the Bookhout Funeral Home, 357 Main Street, Oneonta from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 11:00 AM in the funeral home. Burial will be held at a later date in the Glenwood Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the River Street Baptist Church, 133 River Street, Oneonta, New York 13820 in loving memory of Phoebe Elizabeth Mattice.

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Funeral arrangements are by the Bookhout Funeral Home of Oneonta.