ITHACA—Audrey Waite Ashley, age 98, of Kendal at Ithaca, died on March 28, 2024. Mrs. Ashley was born in Yonkers, New York on April 16, 1925, the only child of Helen Guest and Stanley Byron Waite. She grew up in Bronxville, New York, spending her summers at a family home in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod.  
Audrey was proud of her ancestors and the role they played in the history of our country. They included three Mayflower passengers, as well as Thomas Hinckley, the last governor of Plymouth Colony, and Benjamin Wait, whose wife and three daughters were captured by Native Americans in western Massachusetts in 1677, taken in winter to Canada, and subsequently rescued.…