IN MEMORIAM:  Susan Stevens, 58;

For 13 Years, Controller At Otesaga

COOPERSTOWN – Susan Stevens, retired controller at The Otesaga, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem, N.C.  She was 58. Locally, she resided in Pierstown.

Born Dec. 23, 1957, in Framingham, Mass., Susan Mary Dunphy was one of three daughters of James Henry Dunphy, Jr. and Jean Louise Gillum Dunphy.

After graduating in 1975 from Rutland Senior High School in Vermont,  she earned an associate degree in Hotel and Resort Management from SUNY Delhi and then a bachelor’s in accounting from Trinity College of Vermont in Burlington.  She also completed course work at Cornell University.

Sue held positions at The Desmond Americana in Albany, The Statler Hotel at Cornell, the Sheraton and Clarion, both in Burlington, Vt., and Bruegger’s Bagels.

She was at The Otesaga from 2000 to 2013.  She relocated for health reasons to North Carolina, living first in Asheville and then Clemmons.

She will be remembered for her sense of humor, love of cats, love of travel, and strong financial talents.

Susan is survived by her two sisters, Deborah A. Dunphy and her husband, John E. Welch, of Lynnfield, Mass., and Patricia J. Pelis and her husband, Michael, of Enfield, Conn.; and two nephews and one niece, John D. Welch and Anne G. Welch of Lynnfield and James Michael Pelis of Enfield.  She is further survived by her beloved cat, Marshall.

She was predeceased by her father, James Henry Dunphy, Jr., who died Jan. 9, 2005, and her mother, Jean Louise Dunphy, who died Oct. 26, 2007.  In addition, she was predeceased by three beloved cats, Bud (Bobo), Toto and Gulliver.

A memorial service will be at 11 a. m. Saturday, Feb. 13, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, Cooperstown, with the Rev. David Wm. Mickiewicz, pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta, officiating.  Friends may call at the funeral home one hour prior to the service.

Susan will be laid to rest with her parents in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Randolph, Mass.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy in the form of memorial gifts may be made to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, 801 Roeder Road, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD  20910, or a charity of your choice.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.