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- Willis A Tuthill of Amityville, LI, a former Mattituck bayman and boarding house proprietor, died on Thursday of last week, and his body was brought to Mattituck for burial on Saturday. Mr Tuthill was 86 years of age.
He was a son of the late Capt and Mrs Benjamin Tuthill, and had spent most of his life in Mattituck. He and his wife lived and conducted a boarding house in what is now the summer home of Judge E A Richards on Bay Avenue. Since selling this place, perhaps some fifteen years ago, he had made his home with his daughter, Mrs Percy McGuire, at Amityville, and visited Mattituck summers.
Mr Tuthill was one of the charter members of Mattituck Council 34, Jr O U A M. when the order was organized here 50 years ago. Members of the order attended the funeral services conducted at the Mattituck Presbyterian Church Saturday afternoon by Rev Frank Magor, pastor. Burial was in New Bethany Cemetery.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs Percy McGuire of Amityville, LI; two brothers, Wallace S Tuthill of Mattituck and Percy Tuthill of Greenport; a sister, Mrs Florence Payne of Riverhead; and three grandchildren. A fourth grandchild lost his life in the late war.
Obit was published in The Long Island Traveler-Mattituck Watchman on Mar 21, 1946 p1.
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1859 - 1946 (86 years)