MIDDLEBURY — Elsie Mellette, 88, passed away Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at St. Mary’s Hospital. She was the wife of the late Cy Mellette who passed away in 2011.
Elsie was born Dec. 14, 1928 in Waterbury, the daughter of the late Howard and Astrid (Grandell) Northrop. She had worked as a licensed insurance agent for Litchfield Insurance Group as well as the Hearthstone Agency until her retirement in 1994. She was a charter member of the Middlebury Vol. Fire Department, Ladies Auxiliary and a 65-plus-year member of the Pomperaug Chapter Order of the Eastern Star.
Elsie is survived by her daughter, Diane Cataudella and her husband, Mark, of Cumberland, R.I.; her grandsons, Cris and his wife, Amy, of Harvard, Mass. and Matt and his wife, Jozefien, of West Chester, Ohio; her great-granddaughters, Siena and Audrey; great-grandsons, Ryan and Owen; her sister, Nancy Northrop; and her brother, Howard Northrop. Besides her parents and her husband, Elsie is predeceased by her sister, Ruth Rooney.
The funeral will be held on Monday, July 3, 2017 at Middlebury Congregational Church, 1242 Whittemore Road, Middlebury, at 11 a.m. Friends are asked to meet directly at church. Burial will follow in Middlebury Cemetery. Calling hours will be held on Sunday, July 2, 2017 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Alderson-Ford Funeral Home of Naugatuck, 201 Meadow St., Naugatuck.
Memorial contributions may be made to Cystic Fibrosis, 185 Silas Deane Hwy., Wethersfield, CT 06109 or the Middlebury Fire Department, 65 Tucker Hill Road, Middlebury, CT 06762-2512.
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