Title	Mrs.
Last Name	Derry
First Name	Ellen
Middle Name
Maiden Name	Bassett
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Dexter, ME
Date of Birth	1846-09-24
Place of Death	Dexter, ME
Date of Death	1906-09
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 9-6-1906, p.4
Obituary	Mrs. Ellen Derry. By the death of Mrs. Ellen Derry, Dexter has lost one of the best known and most useful women. For many years as teacher and business woman she has served the public with great faithfulness, always holding the respect and esteem of all with whom she had to deal. For the past few years she was obliged by ill health to withdraw much from the active life of the previous years, but she still kept an eager interest in all that concerned the best welfare of Dexter. Her strong, cheery personality will be greatly missed by a large company of friends who have been hoping that she might regain her health and occupy again her position in our social life. Mrs. Derry was born in Dexter, Sept. 24, 1846, the oldest child of Hiram and Susan Bassett. In early life she was a successful teacher in the public schools for several years. In 1876 she was married to the late Henry F. Derry, one of Dexter's most promising and honored business men. With her husband for the few years of her happy married life she took an active part in the business and social life of the community. Upon Mr. Derry's death in 1887, Mrs. Derry took charge of the business of H. F. Derry & Co., and conducted it successfully until she sold a few years ago to the present proprietors, Edes Brothers. Mrs. Derry was a loved member of Martha Washington Lodge of Rebekahs. She belonged to and took an active interest in the Woman's Literary Club, and she was a devoted and faithful member of the Universalist church. In all the varied relations of a busy, useful life, she manifested the graces of cultured, Christian womanhood. How she will be missed in that home circle which had been drawn so closely together, not only by their natural affection, but also by the common sorrows that have come into their experience. We think of her courage and patience in sickness and pain, when suffering more than, perhaps, the nearest friend realized, she yet brightened the lives of others by her good cheer. May the aged mother, the sisters and brother, and the many friends be comforted by the sweet memories of such a life, and by the thought of that larger, diviner home in the promise of which all sorrowing hearts find consolation.