Eleanor J. âEllieâ Kirch, 73, of Watertown, passed away Tuesday, January 5, 2021, of a sudden illness at Upstate University Hospital, with her family by her side.
Ellie was born in Lowville on March 30,1947, daughter of Milton P. and Pauline K. Schwendy Bush, and she attended school in Croghan and Beaver River.
On August 7, 1965, she married Gary M. Kirch at the Church of St. Stephen in Croghan, the marriage ended in divorce.
In her early years she worked at Northland Motors, and in 1979 she began her 37 year career at Samaritan Medical Center, retiring in 2017, where she was in charge of purchasing in the OR. Ellie was always a hard worker, she took on additional jobs at night cleaning offices and often having 3 jobs at a time.