Elva Irene (Dickson) Hovey Coy, 94, passed away Dec. 16 at Erie County Care Facility in Huron, Ohio.
She was born in Trenton, Nova Scotia on Nov. 11, 1914. She moved to Maine with her parents and three sisters when she was six and attended school there, graduating from Milo High School with the class of 1932. She went on to graduate from Beals Business College in Bangor. She moved to Massachusetts with her first husband and was employed by First National Packing Co. in the Boston area, and was a member of the Teamsters Union for a number of years prior to moving to Vermilion, Ohio in 1958. She worked at the Vermilion City Police Department for more than a decade as one of the first female emergency dispatchers in Northern Ohio, retiring in 1972. Elva was a member of the Congregational Church. She moved back to the Pemaquid Point area of New Harbor, with her second husband, where she was a member of the Willing Workers, volunteered with Meals on Wheels and opened cottages for the summer residence. She spent the last 10 years in Huron to be close to her family.
Preceding her in death were her first husband, Earl Varney (Pete) Hovey in 1968; daughter, Anna Lee Gove Parker in 1991; second husband, Ronald A. Coy in 1993; parents, Oswald Lawson and Elizabeth (Crooks) Dickson; and three sisters, Georgia Hoxie, Margaret Coy and Vera Robinson-Neff.
She is survived by her son, George Dickson Hovey and wife Sally of Huron, Ohio; six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
There will be no visitation. Private graveside service will be held at a later date in Rugby Cemetery, Mason Rd., Brownhelm Township, Ohio.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in her name to the Erie County Care Facility, 3916 East Perkins Ave., Huron, OH 44839 or Stein Hospice, 1200 Sycamore Line, Sandusky, OH 44870-4029.
Arrangements handled by Groff Funeral Home, Sandusky, Ohio.
