ENSLEE, Edith Joyce Edith Joyce Enslee of Boynton Beach, Florida, formerly of Morristown, N.J. and Mt. Lakes, N.J., passed away in Lauer Hospice of Palm Beach County, on August 27, 2003. She was 92. Born Edith Joyce Miller of Battersea, Ontario, Cana da, she was the fourth of six children of Albert Miller and Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, subsistence dairy farmers and fishing guides. She completed her elementary grades in the local one room schoolhouse and attended several years of high school in Sydenh am, Ontario, where she boarded during the week with local residents. She would return home each weekend to work on the farm and to prepare her provisions for the next week. Edith had the opportunity in 1927 to complete her education in the United Sta tes. She would attend West High School in Rochester, N.Y. and live with her sister who had arrived several years before. At her graduation ceremony in January, 1929, she was selected to read an essay that she had written about life in the tiny countr y village in which she had grown up. After attending the University of Rochester for a year, Edith moved to New York City where she studied library science at the Brooklyn Public Library. While living in Brooklyn, she met David Scars Enslee of Morris town, N.J., a graduate of the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn. They were married in 1936. Edith became a Citizen in 1937. In 1938 the Enslees moved to the Rainbow Lakes section of Parsippany, N.J. where she spent the next several years rebuilding a summe r bungalow into a winterized house. They later lived in Morristown, N.J. In 1942, she gave birth to her only child, George, who suffered from a hard to diagnose digestive condition. Edith frequently defied war time restrictions on travel, attempting to find competent doctors to treat the rapidly failing infant. She was ultimately successful in locating a physician to treat the child. In spite of food rationing during the war, she was able to acquire from friends and family enough of the few food s that the infant could tolerate and kept him healthy until he was accurately diagnosed. Mrs. Enslee joined the staff of the Morris County Free Library in 1948, where she would work until her retirement in 1973. The family moved to Mountain Lakes in 1949, where Edith attended the Community Church, and became a member of the Order of the Eastern Star #270. Upon her retirement in 1973, Edith and her husband moved to Boynton Beach, Florida, where she became a member of the Lakeside Methodist Church of Lake Worth Florida. In her retirement community she played competitive shuffleboard with her late husband and took part in many of his activities with the Shriners. Throughout her life, Edith Enslee was unfailingly devoted to her family and frien ds and was always thought of in the highest regard by those who benefitted from her presence. She is survived by her son, George, and her two grandchildren, David C. and Amelia E. Enslee. 10/18/2003- ID2819095 - Kingston Whig Standard