La Fargeville;

Mrs. Ida Matthews age 98 formally of the Woodard Road in La Fargeville, died Monday at the Samaritan Keep Home in Watertown.

Ida was born November 6^th 1911 at home on Point Peninsula NY, one of ten children born to Walter and Bertha Sanford Brown. She attended school at the one room schoolhouse on the Old Town Springs Road near the family’s dairy farm.

Ida and her husband Stanley A. Matthews eloped on Christmas day 1934; Reverend G.A. Foote in Constableville NY married them. Ida and Stan first lived in Clayton where he worked at Frink’s Snowplow and she worked at Clayton Manufacturing Swimsuit Factory. They purchased a dairy farm on the Miller Road near LaFargeville, which they operated until 1951, then the family moved to Lucky Star Ranch near Chaumont, where they were caretakers until the ranch was sold in 1968. There last home was on the Woodard Road near Stone Mills were Ida remained in retirement after her husband’s death in 1984. After a fall at her home in 2005 at age 94, Ida moved to Whispering Pines Adult Home in Watertown until entering the Samaritan keep Home in July of 2009.

Surviving is her daughter Donna and her husband William of the Woodard Road, grandchildren William, Carrie, Rebecca, Wendy, and Lance. Great-grandchildren Jace, Gavin, Corey, and Remington.

Calling hours will be Thursday from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the T.R. Jetty Funeral Home in Clayton. The funeral will be Friday at 11:00 am at the funeral home with Reverend Donald Briant, pastor of Depauville Methodist Church officiating. Burial will follow in Three Mile Bay Cemetery.

Condolences can be made on line at trjettyfuneralhomeinc.com