September 10, 2011

CAPE VINCENT, N.Y.  —  Sally LaLonde Tierney, 77, died Friday, Sept. 9, at her home at 613 Stone Circle, Ives Hill Retirement Community, Watertown. 

Arrangements are with Cummings Funeral Service, Inc. in Clayton, New York.

A funeral Mass will be said 10 a.m.  Saturday, Sept. 17, at St. Vincent of Paul Church in Cape Vincent where she was a communicant and a member of the Altar and Rosary Society. The Mass will be officiated by her cherished spiritual advisor, the Rev. Pierre Aubin, who will celebrate her beautiful life. Burial will immediately follow at St. Vincent of Paul Cemetery in Cape Vincent.

Sally was born and grew up in Watertown, New York the loving daughter of Hilda LaChance LaLonde and A. Leonard LaLonde.  She graduated from Sacred Heart Grammar School and Immaculate Heart Academy. 

After high school, she was a teller at Watertown Savings Bank until she moved to Syracuse and worked as dental assistant. 

She met John Tierney in Syracuse and they were married October 26, 1968. They made their home in the village of New Hartford, a suburb of Utica. Sally was a paralegal in John’s law office in Utica and volunteered for many years at the Presbyterian Nursing Home.  

When they moved to Cape Vincent, she continued as John’s paralegal. She was active in the Chamber of Commerce, volunteered at the Historical Society and Town Library. 

In 2010, she moved to Ives Hill Retirement Community in Watertown.

Sally’s was predeceased by her husband, John, on May 29, 2007, and her parents, Hilda LaChance LaLonde and A. Leonard LaLonde, a brother Robert and sister Jane LaLonde Dermady.  

Surviving her are three loving sisters, Barbara Laberre, Fairfax, Va., Sue Capone, Franklin, Mass.,  and Nancy Britz, Marblehead, Mass.; by her husband John’s five children, Mary Ellen Tierney, Kathleen VonDolen, Margery Bergsman, John Tierney Jr., Michael Tierney and many nieces, nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews.  

Sally was able to live in her own home until her death especially due to the devotion of her late sister Jane Dermady’s eight loving & caring children, her sister, and Hospice of Jefferson County and many professional caregivers.

The St. Lawrence River was a cherished home to her since infancy and Cape Vincent with all her friends was where she called Home.

Memorials may be offered in her memory to Hospice of Jefferson County, 425 Washington Street, Watertown, New York 13601 and Saint Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

Information provided by Cummings Funeral Service and Newzjunky.com, Watertown