Martha (McGill) Thornley

Wappingers Falls – Martha A. (McGill) Gutowski Thornley passed away peacefully at her home in Wappingers Falls, NY, surrounded by her family, on July 7, 2021. She was 90 years old.

Martha was born in New York City in 1931 to Charles J. and Colette (Powers) McGill, but was raised in Fairfield, CT, together with her older brother John P. McGill. Her father ended his long career in journalism as the editor-in-chief of The Bridgeport Post.

Martha graduated from Lauralton Hall in Milford, CT, and received her BA in English from Trinity College in Washington, DC, in June 1953. The following September she married Joseph L. Gutowski whom she met during their college years when he was a student at Georgetown University (class of 1953). They settled in Wappingers Falls where they raised six children, Paul, John (Linda), Ann, Mary Schlitzer (Fred), Carl (Zinnia) and Robert (Lilia), who in turn gave her seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Her loving and devoted husband Joseph predeceased her in 1993 as did her beloved son Paul in 1985, and beloved daughter-in-law Helen Ke in 1994.

Read Martha Thornley’s obituary at leagacy.com.