Mary Delton

Secretary

Mary Delton got her first cat when she started her academic career at Mount Holyoke College because she thought it would be nice to have "someone" to come home to. That was cat #1. While at MHC, Mary adopted a stray, Jellybean, Cat # 2. After marrying Bob Boeckman, and moving to Oakland U in Michigan, Mary would bring Cat #2 into the lab on weekends. Cat #3 was an abandoned cat that wandered the college campus and eventually into Mary's office where he ate some of the cat food that she kept for the weekend. He then went to sleep under her desk. A quick phone call to Bob and that cat came home.

 

After moving to Rochester, NY; Bob and Mary continued to accrue cats. Some were adopted from shelters, and some were strays that found their horse barn. Many of those strays started out as barn cats but became beloved house cats. The number of cats that have been in the family since 1971 now totals 43.

 

Bob has passed but Mary still has 5 loving felines ages 11 - 21 (all of whom were initially strays). Mary finished her career at Kodak where she did research in the Biosciences, Color Negative, and Color Paper divisions. While Bob was the President of Pet Pride of NY Inc, Mary designed and maintained their website.

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