Don't Hush Me

Keith Goldberg: WASHINGTONVILLE — Evelyn Decker's family buried her in Washingtonville Cemetery last weekend, where her grandfather dug graves over a century ago and where her family first planted roots during colonial times.

It was a steamy Saturday afternoon when she was laid to rest near a large evergreen tree and her older sister's grave. Decker died just short of her 93rd birthday.

She leaves behind a younger sister, several nieces and nephews, and a place in history.

Evelyn Decker really wanted to be a doctor. But with a father who died young and a mother who, as a hotel cook, had to support four girls, medical school was out of the question. So she left Washingtonville in 1936 for…