By the Family

May 25, 2016:  Emily McKnight Corry of Bronxville died on May 21, 2016. She was the beloved wife of John A. Corry for 53 years and the mother of Anne McKnight Corry of New York City. Her sister Eleanor Haupt of Newton Square, Pennsylvania, also survives her.

Emily was born in Pittsburgh on January 13, 1931. Soon thereafter, her family moved to western New York, where they lived in Jamestown and summered at Chautauqua Institution, which held a special place in Emily’s heart throughout her lifetime.

She graduated from Smith College, where she spent her junior year abroad in Geneva, in 1953. She then moved to New York City, where she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank and Merrill Lynch and met her husband, John, who still claims that she won him over with her remarkable cooking prowess. Two years after their wedding, they moved to Bronxville, where they remained.

In Bronxville, Emily had a full and active life. For a number of years, she taught an eighth-grade class in the Reformed Church Sunday School. She served on the Parents High School Council and the Bronxville Adult School Board, where, as chair, she organized public panels of prominent local residents to discuss business and professional developments in their fields. She was also instrumental in saving Tuckahoe’s Childhood Education Center from extinction. In 2012, the Emily McKnight Corry Toy Library in Tuckahoe’s ANDRUS Early Learning Center was dedicated as a tribute to her commitment.

Emily was an ardent traveler and enjoyed many wonderful trips with John both overseas and throughout the United States. She especially relished family vacations with Bronxville friends in Hilton Head Island and the several weeks that she and John spent every summer at Chautauqua after he retired. Her other passions include reading (which she did voraciously), cooking, and going to the opera.

Memorial contributions may be made to Chautauqua Foundation, Box 46, Chautauqua, NY 14722.

A funeral service will be held on Thursday, June 9, at 4:00 pm, in the sanctuary of The Reformed Church. A reception will follow at Siwanoy Country Club.