January 29, 2013
Nancy R. McCuin, 81, of Oswego died Tuesday evening in St. Luke Health Services, Oswego. Ms. McCuin was born in Passaic, NJ the daughter of the late Henry and Regina (McKenna) McCuin, and has been a resident of Oswego for the past thirty years. Ms. McCuin was an elementary teacher at Marcellus, Skaneateles and Chenango Forks Elementary Schools, and she taught twenty years in the Lowville Elementary School District. Ms. McCuin was an individual study for Dr. Mary Walker. She was predeceased by her brother Vincent McCuin, and sister Constance McCuin. Funeral services will be Monday 9:00 a.m. in St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Oswego. Spring burial will be in St. Paul’s Cemetery, Massachusetts. The arrangements are in the care of the Sugar & Scanlon Funeral Home 147 West Fourth Street, Oswego.
I was very impressed with Ms. McCuin’s knowledge of Dr. Mary Walker. As a self-professed Dr. Mary Walker ‘scholar,’ she was helpful in my own scholarship on our local hero.
Before Nancy McCuin/Rose Imhoff and Mark Coles’ play: “Champions Bold,” I didn’t know much about Dr. Mary at all. Her legacy is this play, I believe, and all of us in that audience who were influenced by them.
I thank her for all the help she gave me (sitting in her living room discussing Dr. Mary twenty odd years ago) in my search for information on this early female physician.
God bless you and your family.
Debbie Engelke
Safe journey, Ms. McCuin. You will be remembered by more than me for years to come!