Obituary for Irene Antoinette Field Fogg
The Ithaca Journal, May 4 1998, P. 4
"Irene Antoinette Field Fogg, 103, of Savage Farm Dr., died Thursday, April 23, 1998 in Kendal at Ithaca. Born in Watertown, July 26, 1894, she was the daughter of the late Judge Brayton A. & Antoinette E. Thompson Field.
She received a combined degree in Home Economics and Liberal Arts from St. Lawrence University in 1917.
After graduation, she spent two years at the South End House in Boston, Mass., doing social work. She was in Boston at the end of World War I.
After leaving Boston, she took dietetic training at Michael Reed Hospital in Chicago, Ill. from 1919 to 1921.
She then returned to Watertown as a Home Bureau Extension Agent for Jefferson County until moving to Norwich in 1923, where she was a Chenango County Extension Agent. It was there that she met and married Verne A. 'Misty' Fogg, in 1924. Her home, family and church were her career after that and they moved to Ithaca in 1928.
A member of the First Congregational Church since 1930, she was past President of the Women's Union, Harvest Fair Chairman, a member of the Board of Trustees, and the new building committee. She was also past President of the Ladies Union Benevolent Assoc, past Treasurer of the City Federation of Women's Club, past President of both the Mary Hibbard Aid Society and Child Study Club, member of the Girl Scout Council, P.E.O., and an 85 year member and past Alliance President and Alumni Advisor of Delta Delta Delta Sorority.
Mrs. Fogg is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, V. Allen & Lucille Fogg of Westchester, Ill.; daughter and son-in-law. Elizabeth & William Scazzero of Elmsford, NY; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, 'Misty', in 1987."