Alice Sammons

Alice Sammons VERNON BEACH, NY Alice S. Sammons, 76, 4th Ave., died Friday morning, Dec. 26, in St. Joseph's Hospital, Syracuse, where she had been a medical patient for the past two and one half weeks.Born in Oneida, N.Y., on June 13, 1932, daughter of Frank A. and Leona Dillman Stich. A resident of the Pittsfield area, for many years, returning to the Oneida area in 1990, Alice was a graduate of Oneida high School and St. Luke's hospital, School of Nursing. She married William W. Sammons in the First Presbyterian Church, Oneida, on June 15, 1957. Prior to her retirement, Alice was the nursing supervisor for Berkshire Nursing Home in Pittsfield. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, was active with Red Cross Disaster Program in Massachusetts and had a great love for gardening and sewing. Besides her husband, William, she leaves,her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and Patrick Kelleher of Moorestown, N.J.; her sons, and daughters-in-law, William F. Sammons and Debi Seltzer of Quakerstown, Pa., and Thomas C., and Joyce Sammons of Pittsfield; two brothers and one sister-in-law, Donald Stich of Canastota, N.Y., and William and Christine Stich of Tallahasee, Fla., eight grandchildren, William, Nicholas, Justine and Holly Sammons, Cal and Zachary Kelleher and Jessica and Christian Sammons; several nieces and nephews. FUNERAL NOTICE: Services will be held 10 a.m., Tuesday Dec. 30, from the First Presbyterian Church, Stone at Broad Streets, Oneida, with the Rev. Stuart Wattles, Pastor, officiating. Spring interment will be made in Glenwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the Campbell-Dean funeral Home,Inc. 260 Main Street, Oneida, 2 to 5 p.m., Monday.Scholarship Contributions in her memory may be made to St. Joseph Hospital, School of Nursing Scholorship Fund, 301 Prospect Street, Syracuse, NY 13201. Envelopes for this fund may be obtained at the funeral home.