Ethel HANNALECK

ORTH ADAMS -- Ethel Roy, 75, of 611 State Road died Monday at the home of her daughter, Deborah A. Robert, in Adams. Born in the Greylock section of North Adams on Jan. 28, 1930, daughter of Fritz Karl and Mariann Wabnig Hannaleck, she attended local schools. Mrs. Roy was briefly employed by Sprague Electric Co. and worked at Hoosac Cotton Mill until it closed. She also worked with her husband as a bookkeeper during the years they ran the former Bob & Hank's Service Center in North Adams. She was a communicant of St. Patrick's Church of Williamstown and a member of the Williamstown American Legion Post 125. She was a volunteer foster grandparent at Brayton Elementary School. She married George Henry Roy on Oct. 30, 1948. He died in March 2000. Besides her daughter, she leaves a son, George Jeffrey of Gardner; another daughter, Gail Roy Van Slycke of Williamstown; five sisters, Lillian Schafer of Pittsfield, Dorothy Poplaski of Pahrump, Nev., Doris Mary Heyes of Williamstown, Helen O'Neil of Adams and Florence Diodati of Williamstown; a brother, Clarence Hannaleck of Largo, Fla.; 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. FUNERAL NOTICE -- A memorial service for Ethel Roy will be held Saturday, Oct. 15, 11 a.m., at St. Patrick's Church, Southworth Street, Williamstown. She chose to donate her remains to the Anatomical Gift Program of the Albany Medical College in hopes of doing what she could to further the study and cure of Crohn's Disease. With this in mind, she requests, in lieu of flowers, that memorial donations be made to the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America. She was a devoted mother and grandmother. She also leaves several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by a sister, Freida Davis of Maryland, and a brother, Eric Hannaleck of California.Published in The Berkshire Eagle on 10/14/2005.