Written by pressrepublican.com
Friday, July 27, 2001
ELIZABETHTOWN — Ruth Addison, 83, founder and former director of the Essex County Mental Health Association, died at her home in Elizabethtown, N.Y., on Friday, July 27, 2001, after a long illness.
Dr. Addison, psychiatrist, human rights activist, naturalist and strong advocate of liberal political causes, was beloved by friends, family, and her many patients. She moved to Westport, N.Y., with her husband and 3 young children in 1963. Intending to spend her professional years in private practice, she quickly saw the need for county-wide mental health services and worked with the Essex County Board of Supervisors and other local physicians to form a county clinic for this purpose in 1964. This clinic flourishes today in Elizabethtown. She was also instrumental in convincing the county of the need for a larger local hospital and worked to obtain the funds and land necessary to establish what is now Elizabethtown Community Hospital.
Dr. Addison was born in Ossining, N.Y., to immigrant parents, both of whom were physicians. She attended Radcliffe College and later graduated from Albany Medical College in 1944. She married Paul I. Addison, DDS, in 1942.
She resigned from her job as director of the Essex County Mental Health Association in 1972 and moved with her husband to Costa Rica for four years. She then returned to the area and worked as director of the Clinton County Mental Health Clinic and for Clinton County Family Care Services.
Dr. Addison was a strong proponent of human rights and lived by these beliefs. She generously donated to many causes, including Planned Parenthood, People for the American Way and Common Cause.
She was an avid gardener and environmentalist and cherished the wild lands and wild inhabitants of the Adirondack Park.
In 1981 her beloved husband, Paul died, after which she retired. She spent her retirement years traveling and gardening and studying new and old interests.
She is survived by her daughters, Nancy Addison, of Boca Raton, Fla.; Barbara Kamholz, and her husband, John, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Andrea Sorey, and her husband, Robert of Lewis, N.Y.; three grandchildren, David, Rebecca and Julie; and one great-granddaughter, Chloe.
Friday, July 27, 2001
ELIZABETHTOWN — Ruth Addison, 83, founder and former director of the Essex County Mental Health Association, died at her home in Elizabethtown, N.Y., on Friday, July 27, 2001, after a long illness.
Dr. Addison, psychiatrist, human rights activist, naturalist and strong advocate of liberal political causes, was beloved by friends, family, and her many patients. She moved to Westport, N.Y., with her husband and 3 young children in 1963. Intending to spend her professional years in private practice, she quickly saw the need for county-wide mental health services and worked with the Essex County Board of Supervisors and other local physicians to form a county clinic for this purpose in 1964. This clinic flourishes today in Elizabethtown. She was also instrumental in convincing the county of the need for a larger local hospital and worked to obtain the funds and land necessary to establish what is now Elizabethtown Community Hospital.
Dr. Addison was born in Ossining, N.Y., to immigrant parents, both of whom were physicians. She attended Radcliffe College and later graduated from Albany Medical College in 1944. She married Paul I. Addison, DDS, in 1942.
She resigned from her job as director of the Essex County Mental Health Association in 1972 and moved with her husband to Costa Rica for four years. She then returned to the area and worked as director of the Clinton County Mental Health Clinic and for Clinton County Family Care Services.
Dr. Addison was a strong proponent of human rights and lived by these beliefs. She generously donated to many causes, including Planned Parenthood, People for the American Way and Common Cause.
She was an avid gardener and environmentalist and cherished the wild lands and wild inhabitants of the Adirondack Park.
In 1981 her beloved husband, Paul died, after which she retired. She spent her retirement years traveling and gardening and studying new and old interests.
She is survived by her daughters, Nancy Addison, of Boca Raton, Fla.; Barbara Kamholz, and her husband, John, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Andrea Sorey, and her husband, Robert of Lewis, N.Y.; three grandchildren, David, Rebecca and Julie; and one great-granddaughter, Chloe.
Written by pressrepublican.com
Friday, July 27, 2001
ELIZABETHTOWN — Ruth Addison, 83, founder and former director of the Essex County Mental Health Association, died at her home in Elizabethtown, N.Y., on Friday, July 27, 2001, after a long illness.
Dr. Addison, psychiatrist, human rights activist, naturalist and strong advocate of liberal political causes, was beloved by friends, family, and her many patients. She moved to Westport, N.Y., with her husband and 3 young children in 1963. Intending to spend her professional years in private practice, she quickly saw the need for county-wide mental health services and worked with the Essex County Board of Supervisors and other local physicians to form a county clinic for this purpose in 1964. This clinic flourishes today in Elizabethtown. She was also instrumental in convincing the county of the need for a larger local hospital and worked to obtain the funds and land necessary to establish what is now Elizabethtown Community Hospital.
Dr. Addison was born in Ossining, N.Y., to immigrant parents, both of whom were physicians. She attended Radcliffe College and later graduated from Albany Medical College in 1944. She married Paul I. Addison, DDS, in 1942.
She resigned from her job as director of the Essex County Mental Health Association in 1972 and moved with her husband to Costa Rica for four years. She then returned to the area and worked as director of the Clinton County Mental Health Clinic and for Clinton County Family Care Services.
Dr. Addison was a strong proponent of human rights and lived by these beliefs. She generously donated to many causes, including Planned Parenthood, People for the American Way and Common Cause.
She was an avid gardener and environmentalist and cherished the wild lands and wild inhabitants of the Adirondack Park.
In 1981 her beloved husband, Paul died, after which she retired. She spent her retirement years traveling and gardening and studying new and old interests.
She is survived by her daughters, Nancy Addison, of Boca Raton, Fla.; Barbara Kamholz, and her husband, John, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Andrea Sorey, and her husband, Robert of Lewis, N.Y.; three grandchildren, David, Rebecca and Julie; and one great-granddaughter, Chloe.
Friday, July 27, 2001
ELIZABETHTOWN — Ruth Addison, 83, founder and former director of the Essex County Mental Health Association, died at her home in Elizabethtown, N.Y., on Friday, July 27, 2001, after a long illness.
Dr. Addison, psychiatrist, human rights activist, naturalist and strong advocate of liberal political causes, was beloved by friends, family, and her many patients. She moved to Westport, N.Y., with her husband and 3 young children in 1963. Intending to spend her professional years in private practice, she quickly saw the need for county-wide mental health services and worked with the Essex County Board of Supervisors and other local physicians to form a county clinic for this purpose in 1964. This clinic flourishes today in Elizabethtown. She was also instrumental in convincing the county of the need for a larger local hospital and worked to obtain the funds and land necessary to establish what is now Elizabethtown Community Hospital.
Dr. Addison was born in Ossining, N.Y., to immigrant parents, both of whom were physicians. She attended Radcliffe College and later graduated from Albany Medical College in 1944. She married Paul I. Addison, DDS, in 1942.
She resigned from her job as director of the Essex County Mental Health Association in 1972 and moved with her husband to Costa Rica for four years. She then returned to the area and worked as director of the Clinton County Mental Health Clinic and for Clinton County Family Care Services.
Dr. Addison was a strong proponent of human rights and lived by these beliefs. She generously donated to many causes, including Planned Parenthood, People for the American Way and Common Cause.
She was an avid gardener and environmentalist and cherished the wild lands and wild inhabitants of the Adirondack Park.
In 1981 her beloved husband, Paul died, after which she retired. She spent her retirement years traveling and gardening and studying new and old interests.
She is survived by her daughters, Nancy Addison, of Boca Raton, Fla.; Barbara Kamholz, and her husband, John, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Andrea Sorey, and her husband, Robert of Lewis, N.Y.; three grandchildren, David, Rebecca and Julie; and one great-granddaughter, Chloe.
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