Mina Margaretha Haug Cory Of Southampton Dies July 14 - 27 East

Mina Margaretha Haug Cory Of Southampton Dies July 14

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author on Jul 20, 2012

Mina Margaretha Haug Cory

Mina Margaretha Haug Cory of Southampton died July 14 at the Hampton Care Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing. She was 100.

She was born on September 29, 1911, in the Yorkville section of New York City. After graduating from high school, she worked for her father, a carriage harness maker, at his shop on East 75th Street. While working there, she met and later married the Reverend David Munroe Cory, and the couple moved to Brooklyn.

While raising her children, she worked alongside her husband and volunteered at the Industrial Home for the Blind and for Queens Hospital. Her first paying job was as a clerk with the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Council. She later worked in the shareholders relations department at AT&T and was, at one time, in charge of the communications center for the American Sugar Company.

After her official retirement, she worked for the New York City Convention and Visitors Bureau until she was 85, at which time she moved to her summer home, which was purchased in 1941, in Southampton Shores. Once there, she volunteered at Southampton Hospital for five years. Among her passions were cooking, especially German fare, the opera and travel.

Mrs. Cory is survived by a sister, Dr. Elsie Haug of Chicago; three children, Mina Kahofer and her husband Kurt of Wainsoctt, Daniel Cory and his wife Toi of Brooklyn and John Cory and his wife Doris of Connecticut; a daughter-in-law, Nancy Cory of Sag Harbor; nine grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren. She was predeceased by a sister, Bertha Dean; a brother, Frederick Haug; a son, David Cory; and a grandson, Scott Cory.

Memorial donations may be made to Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, NY 11968 or the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historic Museum, P. O. Box 327, Sag Harbor, NY 11963.

A memorial service is planned for Saturday, August 18, at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian “Old Whalers’” Church in Sag Harbor.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor.

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