West Carthage- Mary (Coscomb) Lenart, 86, widow of Tadeusz, and former resident of West Side Terrace Adult Home, Madison St., West Carthage, passed away on Wednesday, December 31, 2014, at Lewis Co. Extended Care Facility, Lowville, where she had resided since April 2010. She was born in Forestport, on June 22, 1928, a daughter of Perley and Anna Becker Coscomb. Mary grew up in Forestport, where she attended school. On March 11, 1946, she was united in marriage with Tadeusz Lenart in Forestport. Later the couple moved to Freeville in Tomkins County, where they worked together as house parents for George Junior Republic. They then moved Mount Holly Springs, MD, where Mrs. Lenart was employed as a child care giver at the Hoffman Residential Home for troubled teens. In the late 1980's the couple moved to Dryden, NY, where they lived until 1993. Mr. Lenart, a WWII Veteran, who served in the Pacific Theater, with the US Army Air Corps, died on May 15, 1993. Mrs. Lenart moved to Carthage later that year to make her home nearer to her daughter, Rhonda. She greatly enjoyed her years spent in West Carthage, as well as traveling, gardening and cooking. Mary is survived by one daughter, Rhonda Houck Tackett, and her husband, Eugene, Hurst, TX; four granddaughters, Lori DeBerger, Hurst, TX, Lisa Smithling, Martinsburg, Valerie Ingersoll, and Kris Frawley, both of Hurst, TX; 11 great grandchildren, Chase, Corey and Chelsea DeBerger, Kyle Smithling, Nicole, Matthew, Daniel, Andrew and Abigail Ingersoll, Michael and Morgan Frawley, one great great granddaughter, Kaydee; one sister in law, Frances Lenart, Alder Creek, and several nieces and nephews and a dear friend, Penny Randall, Carthage. Her Funeral will be Saturday at 1 P.M. at Trainor Funeral Home, Inc. 143 Schuyler St. Boonville, where Pastor James Trainham, Associate Pastor of Lowville Church of the Nazarene will officiate, and where a visitation hour will be from 12 until the funeral. Interment will be in Boonville Cemetery in the spring. Memorial contributions may be made to the Lewis County Humane Society P.O. Box 682 Lowville, NY 13367
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