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- creamted; cremains at Cutchogue Cemetery, Cutchogue, Suffolk, New York
Former Cutchogue resident Eloys C. Sterling of Ridge, a homemaker and longtime member of Cutchogue United Methodist Church, died on Feb. 10 in Ridge. She was 82. Ms. Sterling was born in Patchogue on Sept. 30, 1922, to Albert and Lillian (Rogers) Conklin. Her father owned Toad-Conklin Boat Yard in Patchogue and she became an avid sailor. When she married William Sterling, she became part of the family that founded Sterling Nursery, the oldest seed and plant farm in New York State, on Main Road in Cutchogue in 1879. After moving to Leisure Knoll in Ridge, she joined the Shoreham-Wading River Garden Club. Predeceased by her husband in the early 1980s, Ms. Sterling is survived by her son, Peter, of Cutchogue; a daughter, Bonnie Towle of Harvard, Mass.; a brother, Robert Conklin, of Texas; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Cremation, on Feb. 14, was private, with arrangements by William F. Coster Funeral Home, Cutchogue. Interment will be at Cutchogue Cemetery at a later date. Memorial donations may be sent to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105-1905.
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