M. Amy (Otto) Hoye
Was longtime resident of Ashburnham

GARDNER - M. Amy (Otto) Hoye, of 47 Lake St., Gardner and Lake Worth, Fla., died Friday, Oct. 26, 2007, at Quabbin Valley Health Care, Athol, after a long illness, with her loving family at her bedside.

Amy was born in Fitchburg on March 18, 1921, the daughter of Alan and Marion (Smith) Otto and graduated from Fitchburg High School in 1938. She was a long-time resident of Ashburnham.

Before her marriage, she was a supervisor for the New England Telegraph & Telephone.

Mrs. Hoye was a former member of the Women's Club of Ashburnham and Leominster, the Naukeag Lake Club, and the Ashburnham Historical Society where she discovered that she was related to one of the first selectmen of Ashburnham, John R. Conn who helped lay out the town boundaries. Before the town employed a secretary for the selectmen, she acted in that capacity during her husband's two terms as selectman.

She was an excellent horsewoman and tennis player and once headed the finals at the Western Mass. Women's Tennis Tourney.

She leaves her husband of 63 years, John C. Hoye; her sons, John S. Hoye of Lake Worth, Fla. and Thomas M. Hoye of Falmouth; her brother, William A. Dietsche of E. Longmeadow and her sister, Margrit Lamb of Dedham.

A memorial service will be held Thursday, Nov. 1, at 10:30 a.m. in Bosk Funeral Home, 85 Blossom St., Fitchburg. Burial will follow in Meeting House Hill Cemetery, Ashburnham. Bosk Funeral Home assisted the family.