{"id":611,"date":"2014-03-27T12:16:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T17:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/?p=611"},"modified":"2014-03-27T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T17:16:52","slug":"eleanor-walsh-wertimer-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2014\/03\/27\/eleanor-walsh-wertimer-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Walsh Wertimer &#8217;40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2014\/03\/Wertimer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-605\" alt=\"Wertimer\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2014\/03\/Wertimer.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>Eleanor Walsh Wertimer, a resident of Pelham and a longtime resident of Clinton, N.Y., died on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. She was 91.<\/p>\n<p>Wertimer was born on Jan. 25, 1922 in Buffalo, N.Y.\u00a0 to John and Geraldine Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>She graduated from the Buffalo Seminary in 1939, Northampton School for Girls in 1940\u00a0and Smith College in 1944. She received her law degree from the University of Buffalo in 1946 and was one of the few women admitted to the New York State Bar in 1947. She worked as an associate at a Buffalo law firm.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->She moved to Clinton in 1952 with her husband, Sidney.\u00a0She became active in the Hamilton College and contributed\u00a0behind-the-scenes to major changes such as the addition of women to the Hamilton\u00a0faculty and staff; the rise of Kirkland College, Hamilton\u2019s all-female cohort;\u00a0Kirkland\u2019s merger with Hamilton and the college\u2019s subsequent development as a\u00a0coeducational institution. She was a mentor and role modelto generations of students, faculty and administrators \u2013 especially women \u2013 at the\u00a0college.<\/p>\n<p>She was also committed to the Greater Utica Community. She held many community service positions as a volunteer, board member and elected official.\u00a0 She worked as a law clerk, was named in\u00a0 1981 as the Executive Director of Family\u00a0Services of Greater Utica, and\u00a0 previously served as attorney for the Oneida\u00a0County Department of Family Services. After retiring from Family Services in 1992, Ellie also served as Interim Director of\u00a0 the YWCA of Mohawk Valley (1994-95) and as the Interim Director of the United Way. She also was appointed to unexpired terms of several elective offices.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her sons are Peter (Alicia); Stephen (Jane) and Thomas (Ravlene); daughter Sheila (Gary); 10 grandchildren; brother, Edward Walsh; and sisters, Geraldine Clauss and Sheila Parizeau.<\/p>\n<p>She was predeceased by her husband, Sidney in 2005,\u00a0her parents John and Geraldine Walsh of Buffalo, her older brother Jack Walsh\u00a0and her sister Gertrude (\u201cGoogie\u201d) Butler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Walsh Wertimer, a resident of Pelham and a longtime resident of Clinton, N.Y., died on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. She was 91. Wertimer was born on Jan. 25, 1922 in Buffalo, N.Y.\u00a0 to John and Geraldine Walsh. She graduated from the Buffalo Seminary in 1939, Northampton School for Girls in 1940\u00a0and Smith College in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2014\/03\/27\/eleanor-walsh-wertimer-40\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eleanor Walsh Wertimer &#8217;40<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55],"tags":[364,180,72],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1940s","category-class-of-1940","tag-class-of-1940","tag-elanor-walsh-wertimer","tag-northampton-school-for-girls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}